Patricroft train station

You can reach 25 stations directly from Patricroft on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Broad Green, with 39 trains a day.

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• 25 direct destinations
• 1,554th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• 3 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Patricroft

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

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Lines serving Patricroft

Patricroft 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 Patricroft station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Patricroft station on 80 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 14 paths on the Wednesday, 11 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 16 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Saturday, with 4 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 Patricroft station is

147,502 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,554th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Patricroft and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 37,652 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

• Eccles 1.0 miles
• Moorside 2.2 miles
• Swinton (Manchester) 2.2 miles
• Urmston 2.5 miles
• Humphrey Park 2.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Monton Green · 0.5 miles
• Worsley · 1.2 miles
• Weaste · 2.0 miles
• Barton Moss · 2.0 miles
• Pendlebury · 2.4 miles
• Seedley · 2.5 miles

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Facilities at Patricroft station

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

From National Rail's station record, last updated 17 April 2026.

Getting to Patricroft station

Patricroft station is in Salford, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M602 J1 (Eccles Interchange), 0.7 miles north-west.

3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Patricroft Station.

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

Patricroft 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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