Rainhill train station

You can reach 31 stations directly from Rainhill on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Huyton, with 46 trains a day.

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• 31 direct destinations
• 1,437th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free in part
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Rainhill

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

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Lines serving Rainhill

Rainhill 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 Rainhill station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Rainhill station on 237 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 42 paths on the Wednesday, 23 paths on the Saturday and 11 paths on the Sunday. 58 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 Thursday, with 5 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 Rainhill station is

186,148 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,437th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Rainhill and Liverpool Lime Street than any other pair: 89,662 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: 21 stations instead of 31, a drop of about 32%. Saturday runs to 31.

Nearest other stations

• Eccleston Park 1.1 miles
• Whiston 1.3 miles
• Thatto Heath 1.4 miles
• Prescot 1.4 miles
• Lea Green 1.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Clock Face · 2.2 miles
• Union Bank Farm Halt · 2.2 miles
• Huyton Quarry · 2.4 miles
• Peasley Cross · 2.7 miles
• Robins Lane Halt · 2.7 miles
• Sutton Oak · 2.8 miles

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Facilities at Rainhill station

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

Ticket office: Monday: 06:00 to 23:50 · Sunday: 08:45 to 00:00

Parking at Rainhill station

• Station Car Park
  free

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 2 June 2026.

Getting to Rainhill station

Rainhill station is in St. Helens, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M62 J7 (Rainhill Stoops Interchange), 1.2 miles south.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Rainhill Interchange.

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

Rainhill 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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