Runcorn train station
You can reach 39 stations directly from Runcorn on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Liverpool Lime Street, with 153 trains a day.
Address: Shaw Street, Runcorn, WA7 5UB
- 39 direct destinations
- 688th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 538 parking spaces
- 7 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Runcorn
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool Lime Street | 153 | 149 | 100 |
| Liverpool South Parkway | 127 | 97 | 58 |
| Crewe | 96 | 95 | 59 |
| Stafford | 63 | 89 | 53 |
| Birmingham New Street | 59 | 59 | 27 |
| Penkridge | 58 | 59 | 25 |
| Wolverhampton | 58 | 59 | 27 |
| London Euston | 55 | 53 | 40 |
| Chester | 34 | 34 | 30 |
| Frodsham | 34 | 34 | 30 |
| Helsby | 34 | 34 | 30 |
| Hartford | 41 | 33 | 28 |
| Smethwick Galton Bridge | 33 | 32 | 25 |
| Winsford | 36 | 32 | 28 |
| Acton Bridge | 36 | 31 | 28 |
| Milton Keynes Central | 32 | 30 | 27 |
| Mossley Hill | 29 | 30 | 0 |
| Abergele and Pensarn | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| Coseley | 23 | 27 | 0 |
| Colwyn Bay | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| Flint | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| Llandudno Junction | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| Prestatyn | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| Rhyl | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| Shotton | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| Deganwy | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Llandudno | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Lichfield Trent Valley | 23 | 24 | 13 |
| Tamworth | 23 | 24 | 13 |
| Rugby | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| Watford Junction | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Adderley Park | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Birmingham International | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Coventry | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Chirk | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Gobowen | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Lea Hall | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Marston Green | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ruabon | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Stechford | 0 | 1 | 0 |
and 2 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Runcorn
Runcorn is on the Weaver Junction and Liverpool Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Runcorn station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Runcorn station on 321 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 57 paths on the Wednesday, 47 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 52 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 09:00 to 10:00 on the Monday, with 7 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Runcorn station is
731,962 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 688th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 53,679 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Runcorn and Liverpool Lime Street than any other pair: 305,858 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: 24 stations instead of 39, a drop of about 38%. Saturday runs to 42.
Nearest other stations
- Widnes 2.8 miles
- Hough Green 2.8 miles
- Frodsham 3.0 miles
- Runcorn East 3.1 miles
- Halewood 4.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Runcorn, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Widnes South · 1.4 miles
- Widnes Central · 1.4 miles
- Ann Street Halt · 1.6 miles
- Ditton Mill · 1.8 miles
- Ditton · 1.8 miles
- Tanhouse Lane · 2.0 miles
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Facilities at Runcorn station
Runcorn is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:45 to 19:30 · Saturday: 06:30 to 19:30 · Sunday: 08:45 to 19:30
Toilets · Waiting room
Parking at Runcorn station
- Runcorn Multi-Storey Car Park 440 spaces, 9 accessible
£12.50 a day - Runcorn Holloway Road Car Park 98 spaces, 2 accessible
£12.50 a day
Cycle parking: 16 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 19 August 2026.
Getting to Runcorn station
Runcorn station is in Halton, North West, and is run by Avanti West Coast.
The nearest motorway junction is M56 J12 (Rocksavage Roundabout), 2.4 miles south-east.
7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Runcorn Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Runcorn 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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