Newton-le-Willows train station
You can reach 80 stations directly from Newton-le-Willows on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Earlestown, with 115 trains a day.
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Newton-le-Willows is the nearest station for postcodes in WA3. Check your own postcode.
- 80 direct destinations
- 491st busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 400 parking spaces
- 7 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Newton-le-Willows
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earlestown | 115 | 113 | 47 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 82 | 81 | 50 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 76 | 76 | 47 |
| Manchester Victoria | 76 | 74 | 34 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 75 | 76 | 47 |
| East Didsbury | 74 | 72 | 16 |
| Manchester Airport | 74 | 72 | 37 |
| Chester | 72 | 70 | 31 |
| Warrington Bank Quay | 68 | 67 | 31 |
| Leeds | 67 | 35 | 30 |
| Lea Green | 53 | 51 | 50 |
| Frodsham | 51 | 50 | 31 |
| Runcorn East | 51 | 50 | 31 |
| Helsby | 47 | 48 | 31 |
| Huyton | 44 | 43 | 16 |
| Rainhill | 44 | 43 | 16 |
| St Helens Junction | 44 | 43 | 16 |
| Broad Green | 43 | 43 | 16 |
| Roby | 43 | 43 | 16 |
| Wavertree Technology Park | 43 | 43 | 16 |
| Whiston | 43 | 43 | 16 |
| Edge Hill | 42 | 42 | 0 |
| Eccles | 40 | 40 | 16 |
| Patricroft | 39 | 39 | 16 |
| Burnage | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Gatley | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Heald Green | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Mauldeth Road | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| York | 36 | 4 | 1 |
| Colwyn Bay | 35 | 32 | 4 |
| Deansgate | 35 | 35 | 16 |
| Flint | 35 | 32 | 3 |
| Llandudno Junction | 35 | 32 | 4 |
| Prestatyn | 35 | 32 | 3 |
| Rhyl | 35 | 32 | 4 |
| Shotton | 35 | 32 | 3 |
| Chester-le-Street | 34 | 3 | 0 |
| Darlington | 34 | 3 | 0 |
| Durham | 34 | 3 | 0 |
| Newcastle | 34 | 3 | 0 |
and 40 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Newton-le-Willows
Newton-le-Willows is on the Deal Street and Edge Hill Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Newton-le-Willows station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Newton-le-Willows station on 109 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 20 paths on the Wednesday, 10 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 19 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 05:00 to 06:00 on the Monday, with 3 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 Newton-le-Willows station is
1,106,560 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 491st busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 363,013 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Newton-le-Willows and Liverpool Lime Street than any other pair: 237,788 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: 61 stations instead of 80, a drop of about 24%. Saturday runs to 74.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Newton-le-Willows gains 5 destinations including Chirk, Ruabon, Gobowen, Thirsk, Wrexham General and loses 1 including Crewe.
Nearest other stations
- Earlestown 1.0 miles
- Garswood 3.4 miles
- Bryn 3.5 miles
- St Helens Junction 3.8 miles
- Padgate 4.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Newton-le-Willows, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Lowton · 0.7 miles
- Parkside · 0.7 miles
- Golborne South · 1.9 miles
- Haydock Park · 2.0 miles
- Ashton-in-Makerfield · 2.1 miles
- Collins Green · 2.2 miles
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Facilities at Newton-le-Willows station
Newton-le-Willows is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:00 to 23:55 · Sunday: 08:30 to 00:00
Toilets
Parking at Newton-le-Willows station
- Station Car Park 400 spaces, 32 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 24 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 22 July 2026.
Getting to Newton-le-Willows station
Newton-le-Willows station is in St. Helens, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M6 J23 (Haydock Island), 1.2 miles north-west.
7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Newton-le-Willows Interchange.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Newton-le-Willows 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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