Northwich train station

You can reach 15 stations directly from Northwich on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Altrincham, with 40 trains a day.

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• 15 direct destinations
• 1,430th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 50 parking spaces
• 7 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Northwich

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

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Lines serving Northwich

Northwich is on the Mid-Cheshire Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Northwich station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Northwich station on 282 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 50 paths on the Wednesday, 32 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 14:00 to 15:00 on the Saturday, 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 Northwich station is

188,520 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,430th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Northwich and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 58,904 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

• Lostock Gralam 1.4 miles
• Greenbank 1.7 miles
• Hartford 2.7 miles
• Plumley 3.3 miles
• Acton Bridge 4.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Billinge Green Halt · 1.7 miles
• Winsford and Over · 4.7 miles
• Over and Wharton · 4.7 miles

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Facilities at Northwich station

Northwich is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:15 to 13:30 · Saturday: 07:15 to 14:30 · Sunday: closed

Parking at Northwich station

• Station Car Park 50 spaces, 3 accessible
  £2.20 a day, £8.80 a week

Cycle parking: 2 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 29 April 2026.

Getting to Northwich station

Northwich station is in Cheshire West and Chester, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M6 J19 (Tabley Interchange), 4.7 miles north-east.

7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

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

Northwich 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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