Rotherham Central train station
You can reach 43 stations directly from Rotherham Central on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Meadowhall Interchange, with 89 trains a day.
See Rotherham Central on the map
Rotherham Central is the nearest station for postcodes in S60, S61, S65. Check your own postcode.
- 43 direct destinations
- 904th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 50 parking spaces
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Rotherham Central
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowhall Interchange | 89 | 90 | 63 |
| Sheffield | 89 | 90 | 65 |
| Swinton (South Yorkshire) | 87 | 89 | 65 |
| Doncaster | 45 | 44 | 32 |
| Moorthorpe | 44 | 46 | 33 |
| Conisbrough | 43 | 43 | 32 |
| Mexborough | 43 | 43 | 32 |
| Bolton-upon-Dearne | 41 | 42 | 31 |
| Goldthorpe | 41 | 42 | 31 |
| Thurnscoe | 41 | 42 | 31 |
| Fitzwilliam | 38 | 40 | 30 |
| Leeds | 38 | 40 | 30 |
| Outwood | 38 | 40 | 30 |
| Wakefield Westgate | 38 | 40 | 30 |
| Sandal and Agbrigg | 36 | 39 | 30 |
| Adwick | 33 | 33 | 0 |
| Bentley (South Yorkshire) | 33 | 33 | 0 |
| Church Fenton | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Pontefract Baghill | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Sherburn-in-Elmet | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Ulleskelf | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| York | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Althorpe | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Crowle | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Hatfield & Stainforth | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Scunthorpe | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Thorne South | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Barnetby | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Brough | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Birchwood | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Cleethorpes | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dore and Totley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Grimsby Town | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Goole | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Habrough | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Hull Paragon Interchange | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kirk Sandall | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Liverpool South Parkway | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 1 | 1 | 0 |
and 3 more stations, each served less often.
Freight through Rotherham Central station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Rotherham Central station on 162 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 31 paths on the Wednesday, 11 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 25 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 07:00 to 08:00 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.
| 00 | 03 | 06 | 09 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sun |
Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Rotherham Central station is
463,418 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 904th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 3,179 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Rotherham Central and Sheffield than any other pair: 139,022 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: 29 stations instead of 43, a drop of about 33%. Saturday runs to 39.
Nearest other stations
- Meadowhall Interchange 2.4 miles
- Darnall 3.9 miles
- Swinton (South Yorkshire) 4.4 miles
- Woodhouse 4.7 miles
- Chapeltown 4.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Rotherham Central, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Rotherham Westgate · 0.2 miles
- Rotherham Masborough · 0.4 miles
- Rotherham Road · 0.8 miles
- Holmes · 0.8 miles
- Parkgate and Rawmarsh · 1.6 miles
- Parkgate and Aldwarke · 1.8 miles
Show closed stations on the map
Facilities at Rotherham Central station
Rotherham Central is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 18:45 · Saturday: 07:00 to 18:45 · Sunday: 08:45 to 16:15
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Rotherham Central station
- Station Car Park 50 spaces, 3 accessible
free
From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 August 2026.
Getting to Rotherham Central station
Rotherham Central station is in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J34 (Tinsley), 2.2 miles south-west.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being College Rd/Bridge Street.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Rotherham Central 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
From the Train Map UK shop See everything
