Ribblehead train station

You can reach 22 stations directly from Ribblehead on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Settle, with 18 trains a day.

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• 22 direct destinations
• 2,168th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 25 parking spaces
• 3 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Ribblehead

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

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Lines serving Ribblehead

Ribblehead is on the Settle-Carlisle Railway. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Ribblehead station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Ribblehead station on 215 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 44 paths on the Wednesday, 7 paths on the Saturday and 1 path 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 13:00 to 14:00 on the Monday, with 10 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 Ribblehead station is

33,682 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,168th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Ribblehead and Leeds than any other pair: 6,928 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

• Horton-in-Ribblesdale 4.6 miles
• Dent 5.3 miles
• Clapham 7.2 miles
• Garsdale 8.1 miles
• Bentham 8.7 miles

Facilities at Ribblehead station

Ribblehead is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Ribblehead station

• Station Car Park 25 spaces

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 April 2026.

Getting to Ribblehead station

Ribblehead station is in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M6 J37 (Killington Interchange), 13.7 miles north-west.

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

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

Ribblehead 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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