Mills Hill train station

You can reach 39 stations directly from Mills Hill on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Castleton, with 66 trains a day.

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• 39 direct destinations
• 1,153rd busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 30 parking spaces
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Mills Hill

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

and 3 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Mills Hill

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

Freight through Mills Hill station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Mills Hill station on 168 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 32 paths on the Wednesday, 12 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 50 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 23:00 to 00:00 on the Monday, with 6 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 Mills Hill station is

303,860 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,153rd busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Mills Hill and Manchester Victoria than any other pair: 179,280 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: 13 stations instead of 39, a drop of about 67%. Saturday runs to 43.

Nearest other stations

• Moston 1.9 miles
• Castleton 2.9 miles
• Rochdale 4.2 miles
• Ashton-under-Lyne 5.2 miles
• Manchester Victoria 5.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Middleton Junction · 0.7 miles
• Middleton · 0.8 miles
• Slattocks · 1.4 miles
• Oldham Werneth · 2.0 miles
• Royton · 2.4 miles
• Hollinwood · 2.4 miles

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Facilities at Mills Hill station

Mills Hill is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Mills Hill station

• TFGM 30 spaces
  free

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 August 2026.

Getting to Mills Hill station

Mills Hill station is in Rochdale, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is A627(M) J1 (Chadderton Roundabout), 1.2 miles north-east.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Mills Hill Station.

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

Mills 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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