Roby train station

You can reach 43 stations directly from Roby on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Huyton, with 114 trains a day.

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• 43 direct destinations
• 1,396th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Roby

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

and 3 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Roby

Roby 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 Roby station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Roby station on 310 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 56 paths on the Wednesday, 25 paths on the Saturday and 13 paths on the Sunday. 63 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 21:00 to 22:00 on the Monday, with 6 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 Roby station is

201,256 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,396th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Roby and Liverpool Lime Street than any other pair: 147,244 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: 34 stations instead of 43, a drop of about 21%. Saturday runs to 43.

Nearest other stations

• Huyton 0.5 miles
• Broad Green 1.6 miles
• Whiston 2.4 miles
• Prescot 2.5 miles
• Wavertree Technology Park 2.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Childwall · 1.2 miles
• Huyton Quarry · 1.3 miles
• Gateacre · 1.8 miles
• Knotty Ash · 2.0 miles
• West Derby · 2.7 miles
• Edge Lane · 3.0 miles

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Facilities at Roby station

Roby is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:40 to 00:00 · Saturday: 05:40 to 00:00 · Sunday: closed

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 25 August 2026.

Getting to Roby station

Roby station is in Knowsley, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M62 J5 (Bowring Park), 0.4 miles south.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Roby Interchange.

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

Roby 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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