Manchester Piccadilly train station
Manchester Piccadilly is a major interchange: 339 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Stockport, with 466 trains a day.
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Manchester Piccadilly is the nearest station for postcodes in M1, M4. Check your own postcode.
- 339 direct destinations
- 15th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 903 parking spaces
- 11 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Manchester Piccadilly
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stockport | 466 | 454 | 237 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 310 | 309 | 185 |
| Manchester Airport | 300 | 293 | 128 |
| Wilmslow | 164 | 167 | 69 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 160 | 148 | 83 |
| Heaton Chapel | 138 | 133 | 15 |
| Preston | 138 | 135 | 61 |
| Levenshulme | 137 | 133 | 15 |
| Macclesfield | 135 | 125 | 67 |
| Deansgate | 134 | 134 | 36 |
| Ashburys | 131 | 127 | 36 |
| Crewe | 131 | 133 | 71 |
| Bolton | 124 | 131 | 56 |
| Romiley | 116 | 110 | 19 |
| East Didsbury | 112 | 110 | 32 |
| Guide Bridge | 112 | 111 | 35 |
| Heald Green | 109 | 109 | 50 |
| Cheadle Hulme | 103 | 103 | 17 |
| Gatley | 103 | 103 | 44 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 103 | 104 | 64 |
| Sheffield | 103 | 101 | 74 |
| Chorley | 100 | 102 | 35 |
| London Euston | 96 | 86 | 70 |
| Alderley Edge | 94 | 97 | 20 |
| Stafford | 93 | 119 | 87 |
| Huddersfield | 83 | 93 | 0 |
| Horwich Parkway | 77 | 76 | 20 |
| Chester | 76 | 76 | 45 |
| Earlestown | 76 | 76 | 47 |
| Newton-le-Willows | 76 | 76 | 47 |
| York | 76 | 75 | 1 |
| Bredbury | 75 | 70 | 19 |
| Brinnington | 75 | 70 | 19 |
| Hazel Grove | 75 | 71 | 16 |
| Marple | 75 | 70 | 19 |
| New Mills Central | 75 | 70 | 19 |
| Reddish North | 75 | 70 | 19 |
| Blackpool North | 74 | 74 | 19 |
| Buckshaw Parkway | 74 | 73 | 20 |
| Kirkham and Wesham | 74 | 74 | 19 |
and 299 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Manchester Piccadilly
Manchester Piccadilly is on the Hope Valley Line, the Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly Line and the Manchester and Ordsall Lane Junction Branch, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Manchester Piccadilly station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Manchester Piccadilly station on 354 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 65 paths on the Wednesday, 45 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 60 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 01:00 to 02:00 on the Tuesday, with 7 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 Manchester Piccadilly station is
27,401,610 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 15th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 2,144,028 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston than any other pair: 3,563,372 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: 254 stations instead of 339, a drop of about 25%. Saturday runs to 294.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Manchester Piccadilly gains 10 destinations including Chirk, Ruabon, Morley, Cottingley, Gobowen, Plymouth and loses 2 including Milford Haven, Johnston.
Nearest other stations
- Manchester Oxford Road 0.6 miles
- Ardwick 0.8 miles
- Deansgate 0.9 miles
- Manchester Victoria 0.9 miles
- Salford Central 1.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Manchester Piccadilly, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Ancoats · 0.3 miles
- Manchester Oldham Road · 0.7 miles
- Manchester Central · 0.7 miles
- Manchester Victoria Reversing Sidings · 0.9 miles
- Manchester Exchange · 0.9 miles
- Manchester Liverpool Road · 1.2 miles
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Facilities at Manchester Piccadilly station
Manchester Piccadilly is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 04:30 to 22:30 · Saturday: 04:30 to 22:30 · Sunday: 07:00 to 22:30
Toilets · Waiting room · WiFi
Parking at Manchester Piccadilly station
- Long Stay 856 spaces, 35 accessible
- Short stay / Drop off 47 spaces, 3 accessible
Cycle parking: 254 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 20 August 2026.
Getting to Manchester Piccadilly station
Manchester Piccadilly station is in Manchester, North West, and is run by Network Rail.
The nearest motorway junction is M602 J3 (Regent Road Roundabout), 2.3 miles west.
11 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Manchester Piccadilly Rail Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Manchester Piccadilly 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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