Macclesfield train station
You can reach 49 stations directly from Macclesfield on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Manchester Piccadilly, with 135 trains a day.
Address: Watersgreen, SK11 6JP
Macclesfield is the nearest station for postcodes in SK10, SK11. Check your own postcode.
- 49 direct destinations
- 372nd busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 64 parking spaces
- 7 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Macclesfield
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester Piccadilly | 135 | 125 | 67 |
| Stockport | 135 | 125 | 67 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 133 | 122 | 67 |
| Birmingham New Street | 59 | 58 | 39 |
| Stafford | 59 | 87 | 62 |
| Wolverhampton | 59 | 58 | 39 |
| Adlington (Cheshire) | 39 | 37 | 0 |
| Bramhall | 39 | 37 | 0 |
| Cheadle Hulme | 39 | 37 | 0 |
| Prestbury | 39 | 37 | 0 |
| Poynton | 39 | 37 | 0 |
| London Euston | 38 | 30 | 28 |
| Congleton | 37 | 34 | 0 |
| Kidsgrove | 37 | 34 | 0 |
| Milton Keynes Central | 35 | 29 | 26 |
| Birmingham International | 29 | 28 | 23 |
| Coventry | 29 | 28 | 23 |
| Rugby | 29 | 29 | 24 |
| Banbury | 28 | 28 | 23 |
| Leamington Spa | 28 | 28 | 23 |
| Oxford | 28 | 28 | 23 |
| Reading | 28 | 28 | 23 |
| Basingstoke | 27 | 28 | 21 |
| Southampton Airport Parkway | 27 | 28 | 21 |
| Southampton Central | 27 | 28 | 21 |
| Winchester | 27 | 28 | 21 |
| Brockenhurst | 24 | 25 | 19 |
| Bournemouth | 24 | 25 | 19 |
| Bristol Parkway | 22 | 0 | 10 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 22 | 0 | 10 |
| Cheltenham Spa | 22 | 0 | 10 |
| Worcestershire Parkway | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Nuneaton | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| Dawlish | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Exeter St Davids | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Newton Abbot | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Paignton | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Taunton | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Teignmouth | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Torquay | 4 | 0 | 2 |
and 9 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Macclesfield
Macclesfield is on the Stafford to Manchester Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Macclesfield station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Macclesfield station on 82 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 21 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 20 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 00:00 to 01:00 on the Tuesday, with 9 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Macclesfield station is
1,486,408 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 372nd busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 8,728 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Macclesfield and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 669,450 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: 37 stations instead of 49, a drop of about 24%. Saturday runs to 33.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Macclesfield gains 2 destinations including Plymouth, Totnes.
Nearest other stations
- Prestbury 2.5 miles
- Adlington (Cheshire) 4.2 miles
- Alderley Edge 5.6 miles
- Poynton 6.3 miles
- Wilmslow 6.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Macclesfield, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Macclesfield Hibel Road · 0.3 miles
- Macclesfield (MB&M) · 0.3 miles
- Bollington closed 1970 · 2.4 miles
- North Rode · 4.4 miles
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Facilities at Macclesfield station
Macclesfield is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 05:45 to 19:00 · Friday: 05:45 to 20:30 · Saturday: 06:00 to 19:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 20:30
Toilets · Waiting room · WiFi
Parking at Macclesfield station
- Macclesfield Upper Car Park 24 spaces, 2 accessible
£12.50 a day - Macclesfield Lower Car Park 40 spaces, 2 accessible
£12.50 a day
Cycle parking: 48 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 September 2026.
Getting to Macclesfield station
Macclesfield station is in Cheshire East, North West, and is run by Avanti West Coast.
The nearest motorway junction is M56 J6 (Hale Four Seasons), 10.1 miles north-west.
7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Macclesfield 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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