Manchester Victoria train station
Manchester Victoria is a major interchange: 127 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Leeds, with 243 trains a day.
See Manchester Victoria on the map
Manchester Victoria is the nearest station for postcodes in M60, M61, M8. Check your own postcode.
- 127 direct destinations
- 57th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 6 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Manchester Victoria
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds | 243 | 180 | 125 |
| Rochdale | 206 | 204 | 74 |
| Salford Crescent | 171 | 169 | 31 |
| Salford Central | 167 | 165 | 30 |
| Todmorden | 141 | 140 | 74 |
| Huddersfield | 125 | 76 | 3 |
| York | 106 | 72 | 4 |
| Hebden Bridge | 105 | 104 | 58 |
| Hindley | 104 | 102 | 15 |
| Bolton | 102 | 101 | 17 |
| Blackburn | 101 | 101 | 32 |
| Wigan Wallgate | 101 | 98 | 15 |
| Dewsbury | 96 | 102 | 61 |
| Littleborough | 79 | 79 | 47 |
| Newton-le-Willows | 76 | 74 | 34 |
| Stalybridge | 75 | 83 | 5 |
| Bradford Interchange | 73 | 71 | 58 |
| Halifax | 73 | 71 | 58 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 73 | 76 | 36 |
| Smithy Bridge | 73 | 73 | 16 |
| Sowerby Bridge | 73 | 71 | 58 |
| Atherton | 70 | 68 | 15 |
| Bramley | 70 | 70 | 31 |
| Daisy Hill | 70 | 68 | 15 |
| New Pudsey | 70 | 70 | 58 |
| Swinton (Manchester) | 70 | 68 | 15 |
| Walkden | 70 | 68 | 15 |
| Mytholmroyd | 69 | 67 | 30 |
| Hag Fold | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Castleton | 66 | 66 | 16 |
| Ince | 66 | 66 | 15 |
| Mills Hill | 66 | 66 | 16 |
| Moston | 66 | 66 | 16 |
| Bromley Cross | 65 | 65 | 16 |
| Darwen | 65 | 65 | 16 |
| Hall i' th' Wood | 65 | 65 | 16 |
| Lea Green | 44 | 46 | 36 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 43 | 38 | 33 |
| Walsden | 43 | 42 | 15 |
| Brighouse | 42 | 32 | 62 |
and 87 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Manchester Victoria
Manchester Victoria is on the Caldervale Line and the Manchester to Preston Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Manchester Victoria station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Manchester Victoria station on 225 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 40 paths on the Wednesday, 26 paths on the Saturday and no paths 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 13:00 to 14:00 on the Monday, with 4 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 Victoria station is
8,378,502 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 57th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 1,183,890 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Manchester Victoria and Leeds than any other pair: 1,074,260 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: 79 stations instead of 127, a drop of about 38%. Saturday runs to 110.
Nearest other stations
- Salford Central 0.6 miles
- Manchester Piccadilly 0.9 miles
- Manchester Oxford Road 1.0 miles
- Deansgate 1.0 miles
- Salford Crescent 1.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Manchester Victoria, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Manchester Exchange · 0.2 miles
- Manchester Victoria Reversing Sidings · 0.3 miles
- Manchester Oldham Road · 0.6 miles
- Manchester Central · 0.8 miles
- Former Liverpool Road Railway Station Station Masters House · 1.0 miles
- Manchester Liverpool Road · 1.0 miles
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Facilities at Manchester Victoria station
Manchester Victoria is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:30 to 22:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 22:15
Toilets · Waiting room
Cycle parking: 38 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.
Getting to Manchester Victoria station
Manchester Victoria station is in Manchester, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M602 J3 (Regent Road Roundabout), 1.8 miles west.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Victoria Rail Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Manchester Victoria 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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