Mill Hill train station

You can reach 32 stations directly from Mill Hill on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Blackburn, with 41 trains a day.

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• 32 direct destinations
• 1,981st busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• 9 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Mill Hill

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

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Lines serving Mill Hill

Mill Hill is on the East Lancashire Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Mill Hill station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Mill Hill station on 118 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 24 paths on the Wednesday, 2 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 5 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 12:00 to 13:00 on the Monday, with 5 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Mill Hill station is

60,484 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,981st busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Mill Hill and Preston (Lancs) than any other pair: 13,724 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: 25 stations instead of 32, a drop of about 22%. Saturday runs to 26.

Nearest other stations

• Cherry Tree 0.7 miles
• Blackburn 1.2 miles
• Pleasington 1.7 miles
• Darwen 3.0 miles
• Ramsgreave and Wilpshire 3.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Mill Hill, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Lower Darwen · 1.5 miles
• Feniscowles · 1.6 miles
• Daisyfield · 1.9 miles
• Withnell · 3.1 miles
• Hoghton · 3.8 miles
• Spring Vale · 3.8 miles

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Facilities at Mill Hill station

Mill Hill is unstaffed, with step-free access to no part of the station.

From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 April 2026.

Getting to Mill Hill station

Mill Hill station is in Blackburn with Darwen, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M65 J4 (Earcroft Interchange), 1.5 miles south-east.

9 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Parkinson Street.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Mill Hill 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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