Longton train station
You can reach 27 stations directly from Longton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Alsager, with 32 trains a day.
Longton is the nearest station for postcodes in ST3, ST9. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Longton
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alsager | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Beeston | 32 | 31 | 0 |
| Blythe Bridge | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Crewe | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Derby | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Kidsgrove | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Long Eaton | 32 | 31 | 0 |
| Nottingham | 32 | 29 | 0 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Tutbury and Hatton | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Uttoxeter | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Attenborough | 30 | 29 | 0 |
| Carlton | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Lowdham | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Newark Castle | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Burton Joyce | 25 | 25 | 0 |
| Fiskerton | 25 | 25 | 0 |
| Hykeham | 24 | 22 | 0 |
| Lincoln | 24 | 22 | 0 |
| Bleasby | 16 | 15 | 0 |
| Thurgarton | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| Rolleston | 12 | 13 | 0 |
| Collingham | 9 | 7 | 0 |
| Peartree | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| Swinderby | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Longport | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Spondon | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Longton
Longton is on the Crewe to Derby Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Longton station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Longton station on 49 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 11 paths on the Wednesday, 2 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 16 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.
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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Longton station is
81,226 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,857th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Longton and Stoke-On-Trent than any other pair: 23,702 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: 8 stations instead of 27, a drop of about 70%. Saturday runs to 27.
Nearest other stations
- Stoke-on-Trent 2.2 miles
- Blythe Bridge 3.3 miles
- Longport 4.9 miles
- Stone 5.7 miles
- Kidsgrove 8.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Longton, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Normacot · 0.9 miles
- Fenton · 1.1 miles
- Fenton Manor · 1.5 miles
- Meir · 1.8 miles
- Trentham (Staffordshire) · 2.2 miles
- Bucknall and Northwood · 2.4 miles
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Facilities at Longton station
Longton is unstaffed, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Parking at Longton station
- Station Car Park. (Pay by RingGO available) www.myringgo.co.uk/parkinglocator/23317 8 spaces, 1 accessible
£1.70 off-peak, £2.80 a day, £8.40 a week
Cycle parking: 4 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 August 2026.
Getting to Longton station
Longton station is in Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, and is run by East Midlands Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M6 J15 (Hanchurch Interchange), 3.9 miles west.
14 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being bus station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Longton 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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