Long Preston train station

You can reach 32 stations directly from Long Preston on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bingley, with 28 trains a day.

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• 32 direct destinations
• 2,295th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 6 parking spaces
• 1 bus stop nearby

Direct trains from Long Preston

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

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Lines serving Long Preston

Long Preston is on the Skipton and Wennington Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Long Preston station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Long Preston station on 280 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 57 paths on the Wednesday, 7 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 25 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 13:00 to 14:00 on the Monday, with 10 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Long Preston station is

18,214 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,295th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 460 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Long Preston and Leeds than any other pair: 5,482 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.

Nearest other stations

• Hellifield 1.2 miles
• Settle 3.6 miles
• Giggleswick 3.7 miles
• Gargrave 6.7 miles
• Clapham 8.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Long Preston, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Settle Junction · 2.0 miles
• Newsholme · 4.0 miles
• Bell Busk · 4.3 miles

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Facilities at Long Preston station

Long Preston is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Long Preston station

• Station Car Park 6 spaces
  free

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 April 2026.

Getting to Long Preston station

Long Preston station is in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M65 J14, 11.5 miles south.

1 bus stop is within a short walk, the nearest being Cornmill Cottages.

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

Long Preston 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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