Meols Cop train station
You can reach 38 stations directly from Meols Cop on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Appley Bridge, with 64 trains a day.
Meols Cop is the nearest station for postcodes in PR9. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Meols Cop
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appley Bridge | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Burscough Bridge | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Gathurst | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Parbold | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Southport | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Wigan Wallgate | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Hindley | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Salford Crescent | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Bolton | 61 | 61 | 0 |
| Ince | 61 | 61 | 14 |
| Westhoughton | 61 | 61 | 0 |
| Deansgate | 31 | 31 | 0 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 31 | 31 | 0 |
| Manchester Victoria | 31 | 31 | 14 |
| Salford Central | 30 | 30 | 14 |
| Kearsley | 29 | 29 | 0 |
| Farnworth | 28 | 28 | 0 |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| Moses Gate | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| Stalybridge | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| Bescar Lane | 18 | 18 | 0 |
| Hoscar | 18 | 18 | 0 |
| New Lane | 18 | 18 | 0 |
| Clifton | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Accrington | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Atherton | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| Blackburn | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Burnley Manchester Road | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Daisy Hill | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| Hag Fold | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| Littleborough | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Moorside | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| Rochdale | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rose Grove | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Smithy Bridge | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Swinton (Manchester) | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| Todmorden | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Walkden | 1 | 1 | 14 |
Lines serving Meols Cop
Meols Cop is on the Manchester to Southport Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Meols Cop station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Meols Cop station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Meols Cop station is
78,640 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,869th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Meols Cop and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 16,576 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: 17 stations instead of 38, a drop of about 55%. Saturday runs to 30.
Nearest other stations
- Southport 1.1 miles
- Birkdale 1.8 miles
- Hillside 2.7 miles
- Bescar Lane 2.9 miles
- Ainsdale 4.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Meols Cop, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Butts Lane Halt · 0.5 miles
- Blowick · 0.5 miles
- St Luke's · 0.6 miles
- Southport Ash Street · 0.6 miles
- Hesketh Park · 0.6 miles
- Southport Central · 0.9 miles
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Facilities at Meols Cop station
Meols Cop is unstaffed, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Cycle parking: 10 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 6 July 2026.
Getting to Meols Cop station
Meols Cop station is in Sefton, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M58 J1 (Maghull Lane Interchange), 9.5 miles south.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Meols Cop Interchange.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Meols Cop 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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