Penrith (North Lakes) train station

You can reach 29 stations directly from Penrith (North Lakes) on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Carlisle, with 67 trains a day.

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• 29 direct destinations
• 701st busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 121 parking spaces

Direct trains from Penrith (North Lakes)

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

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Lines serving Penrith (North Lakes)

Penrith (North Lakes) is on the West Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Penrith (North Lakes) station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Penrith (North Lakes) station on 385 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 73 paths on the Wednesday, 43 paths on the Saturday and 9 paths on the Sunday. 77 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 9 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 Penrith (North Lakes) station is

715,822 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 701st busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 208,586 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Penrith (North Lakes) and Carlisle than any other pair: 198,098 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

• Langwathby 4.4 miles
• Lazonby and Kirkoswald 6.5 miles
• Armathwaite 10.2 miles
• Appleby 12.3 miles
• Wetheral 15.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Penrith (North Lakes), from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Blencow · 3.0 miles
• Clifton Moor · 3.0 miles
• Clifton and Lowther · 3.5 miles
• Plumpton · 4.7 miles
• Little Salkeld · 4.8 miles

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Facilities at Penrith (North Lakes) station

Penrith (North Lakes) is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:30 to 19:00 · Saturday: 05:30 to 19:00 · Sunday: 10:30 to 19:00

Toilets

Parking at Penrith (North Lakes) station

• Penrith North Lakes Car Park 121 spaces, 4 accessible
  £12.50 a day

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 February 2026.

Getting to Penrith (North Lakes) station

Penrith (North Lakes) station is in Westmorland and Furness, North West, and is run by Avanti West Coast.

The nearest motorway junction is M6 J40 (Skirsgill), 0.5 miles south-west.

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

Penrith (North Lakes) 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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