Rose Grove train station

You can reach 47 stations directly from Rose Grove on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Accrington, with 72 trains a day.

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• 47 direct destinations
• 1,898th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Rose Grove

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

and 7 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Rose Grove

Rose Grove is on the East Lancashire Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Rose Grove station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Rose Grove station on 14 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 3 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 5 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 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 Rose Grove station is

73,300 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,898th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 5,674 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Rose Grove and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 9,740 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: 35 stations instead of 47, a drop of about 26%. Saturday runs to 38.

Changing from 24 March 2027

From 24 March 2027, Rose Grove loses 2 destinations including Bolton, Westhoughton.

Nearest other stations

• Burnley Barracks 1.0 miles
• Burnley Manchester Road 1.3 miles
• Hapton 1.5 miles
• Burnley Central 1.6 miles
• Huncoat 2.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Padiham · 1.6 miles
• New Hall Bridge Halt · 1.9 miles
• Towneley · 1.9 miles
• Reedley Hallows Halt · 2.3 miles
• Simonstone · 2.6 miles
• Holme · 4.4 miles

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Facilities at Rose Grove station

Rose Grove is unstaffed, with step-free access to no part of the station.

From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 July 2026.

Getting to Rose Grove station

Rose Grove station is in Burnley, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M65 J10 (Burnley Barracks Interchange), 0.1 miles north-east.

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

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

Rose Grove 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