Navigation Road train station
You can reach 15 stations directly from Navigation Road on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Altrincham, with 40 trains a day.
See Navigation Road on the map
Navigation Road is the nearest station for postcodes in M33, M23. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Navigation Road
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Altrincham | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Ashley | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Chester | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Cuddington | 39 | 36 | 14 |
| Delamere | 39 | 36 | 14 |
| Greenbank | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Hale | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Knutsford | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Lostock Gralam | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 36 | 36 | 14 |
| Mouldsworth | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Mobberley | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Northwich | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Plumley | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Stockport | 40 | 36 | 14 |
| Heaton Chapel | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Levenshulme | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Lines serving Navigation Road
Navigation Road is on the Mid-Cheshire Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Navigation Road station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Navigation Road station on 283 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 50 paths on the Wednesday, 33 paths on the Saturday and 13 paths on the Sunday. 95 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 10:00 to 11:00 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Navigation Road station is
96,498 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,777th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Navigation Road and Stockport than any other pair: 30,412 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.
Nearest other stations
- Altrincham 0.6 miles
- Hale 1.2 miles
- Ashley 2.8 miles
- Manchester Airport 3.6 miles
- Chassen Road 3.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Navigation Road, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Broadheath (Altrincham) · 0.6 miles
- West Timperley · 0.6 miles
- Bowdon · 0.9 miles
- Baguley · 1.4 miles
- Brooklands · 1.6 miles
- Dunham W&SR · 2.1 miles
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Facilities at Navigation Road station
Navigation Road is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Cycle parking: 6 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 April 2026.
Getting to Navigation Road station
Navigation Road station is in Trafford, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M56 J5 (Airport), 2.7 miles south-east.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Navigation Road Metrolink Stop.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Navigation Road 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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