Poynton train station

You can reach 13 stations directly from Poynton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Adlington (Cheshire), with 39 trains a day.

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• 13 direct destinations
• 1,368th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 40 parking spaces
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Poynton

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

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Lines serving Poynton

Poynton is on the Stafford to Manchester Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Poynton station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Poynton station on 82 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 21 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 20 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 00:00 to 01:00 on the Tuesday, with 7 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 Poynton station is

209,572 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,368th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Poynton and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 101,684 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

There is no Sunday service from Poynton. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.

Nearest other stations

• Bramhall 1.3 miles
• Hazel Grove 1.9 miles
• Adlington (Cheshire) 2.1 miles
• Middlewood 2.2 miles
• Woodsmoor 2.5 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Hazel Grove (Midland) · 2.0 miles
• Higher Poynton · 2.1 miles
• High Lane · 2.2 miles
• Cheadle railway station (M&BR) · 2.8 miles
• Bollington closed 1970 · 4.1 miles
• Cheadle Heath · 4.1 miles

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Facilities at Poynton station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 13:00 · Saturday: 07:30 to 14:00 · Sunday: closed

Parking at Poynton station

• Station Car Park 40 spaces
  £2.20 a day, £8.80 a week

From National Rail's station record, last updated 23 April 2026.

Getting to Poynton station

Poynton station is in Cheshire East, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M60 J1 (Pyramid Roundabout), 4.3 miles north.

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

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

Poynton 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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