Rochdale train station

You can reach 68 stations directly from Rochdale on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Manchester Victoria, with 206 trains a day.

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• 68 direct destinations
• 339th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Rochdale

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

and 28 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Rochdale

Rochdale is on the Caldervale Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Rochdale station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Rochdale station on 168 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 32 paths on the Wednesday, 12 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 50 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 4 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 Rochdale station is

1,629,872 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 339th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 74,104 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Rochdale and Manchester Victoria than any other pair: 820,846 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 68, a drop of about 69%. Saturday runs to 66.

Nearest other stations

• Castleton 1.6 miles
• Smithy Bridge 2.2 miles
• Littleborough 3.2 miles
• Mills Hill 4.2 miles
• Moston 6.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Wardleworth · 0.9 miles
• Milnrow · 1.7 miles
• Shawclough and Healey · 1.8 miles
• New Hey · 2.4 miles
• Broadley · 2.6 miles
• Slattocks · 2.9 miles

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Facilities at Rochdale station

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

Ticket office: Monday: 06:10 to 20:00 · Friday: 06:10 to 20:45 · Saturday: 06:10 to 20:45 · Sunday: 09:00 to 19:40

Toilets

Parking at Rochdale station

• Hare Street
  free

Cycle parking: 16 spaces (sheltered, stands).

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

Getting to Rochdale station

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

The nearest motorway junction is A627(M) J4, 1.0 miles south-west.

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

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

Rochdale 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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