Liverpool Lime Street train station

Liverpool Lime Street is a major interchange: 194 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Hamilton Square, with 435 trains a day.

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• 194 direct destinations
• 32nd busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 280 parking spaces
• 7 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Liverpool Lime Street

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 154 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Liverpool Lime Street

Liverpool Lime Street is on the Weaver Junction and Liverpool Line and the Merseyrail Wirral Line (Loop), each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Liverpool Lime Street station, hour by hour

No freight is booked through or alongside Liverpool Lime Street station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.

How busy Liverpool Lime Street station is

14,430,214 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 32nd busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 986,504 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Liverpool Lime Street and London Euston than any other pair: 1,838,790 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 153 stations instead of 194, a drop of about 21%. Saturday runs to 190.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Liverpool Lime Street gains 1 destination including Thirsk.

Nearest other stations

• Liverpool Central 0.2 miles
• Moorfields 0.5 miles
• Liverpool James Street 0.6 miles
• Edge Hill 1.3 miles
• Sandhills 1.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Liverpool Lime Street, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Canning · 0.6 miles
• Park Lane railway goods · 0.8 miles
• Wapping Dock · 0.9 miles
• Liverpool Riverside · 0.9 miles
• Liverpool Great Howard Street · 0.9 miles
• Liverpool St James · 0.9 miles

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Facilities at Liverpool Lime Street station

Liverpool Lime Street is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Sunday: 07:15 to 23:05 · Monday to Friday: 05:00 to 23:38 · Saturday: 05:00 to 23:38

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Liverpool Lime Street station

• Short stay car park located on Skelhorne Street & Long Stay Car Park located on Lord Nelson Street 280 spaces, 25 accessible

Cycle parking: 52 spaces (sheltered, racks).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 10 September 2026.

Getting to Liverpool Lime Street station

Liverpool Lime Street station is in Liverpool, North West, and is run by Network Rail.

The nearest motorway junction is M62 J4 (The Rocket), 3.4 miles east.

7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Lime Street.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Liverpool Lime Street station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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