Salford Central train station
You can reach 67 stations directly from Salford Central on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Manchester Victoria, with 167 trains a day.
See Salford Central on the map
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Direct trains from Salford Central
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester Victoria | 167 | 165 | 30 |
| Salford Crescent | 167 | 165 | 30 |
| Rochdale | 126 | 124 | 0 |
| Bolton | 99 | 99 | 15 |
| Hindley | 101 | 99 | 15 |
| Wigan Wallgate | 98 | 95 | 15 |
| Blackburn | 95 | 94 | 15 |
| Atherton | 68 | 66 | 15 |
| Daisy Hill | 68 | 66 | 15 |
| Swinton (Manchester) | 68 | 66 | 15 |
| Walkden | 68 | 66 | 15 |
| Bromley Cross | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Darwen | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Hall i' th' Wood | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Ince | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Hag Fold | 65 | 63 | 15 |
| Littleborough | 63 | 63 | 0 |
| Todmorden | 64 | 63 | 0 |
| Castleton | 62 | 62 | 0 |
| Mills Hill | 62 | 62 | 0 |
| Moston | 62 | 62 | 0 |
| Smithy Bridge | 62 | 62 | 0 |
| Walsden | 39 | 39 | 0 |
| Clitheroe | 34 | 38 | 0 |
| Langho | 34 | 38 | 0 |
| Ramsgreave and Wilpshire | 34 | 38 | 0 |
| Whalley | 34 | 38 | 0 |
| Entwistle | 37 | 37 | 14 |
| Farnworth | 36 | 36 | 0 |
| Westhoughton | 35 | 35 | 0 |
| Kearsley | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Moorside | 36 | 34 | 15 |
| Moses Gate | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Hebden Bridge | 33 | 33 | 0 |
| Leeds | 33 | 33 | 0 |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Mytholmroyd | 33 | 32 | 0 |
| Sowerby Bridge | 33 | 32 | 0 |
| Stalybridge | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Brighouse | 31 | 31 | 0 |
and 31 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Salford Central
Salford Central is on the Manchester to Preston Line and the Deal Street and Edge Hill Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Salford Central station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Salford Central station on 225 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 40 paths on the Wednesday, 26 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 60 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 15:00 to 16:00 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Salford Central station is
814,746 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 639th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Salford Central and Bolton than any other pair: 89,732 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: 23 stations instead of 67, a drop of about 66%. Saturday runs to 71.
Nearest other stations
- Deansgate 0.6 miles
- Manchester Victoria 0.6 miles
- Manchester Oxford Road 0.8 miles
- Salford Crescent 0.9 miles
- Manchester Piccadilly 1.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Salford Central, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Former Liverpool Road Railway Station Station Masters House · 0.4 miles
- Manchester Liverpool Road · 0.4 miles
- Oldfield Road · 0.4 miles
- Manchester Exchange · 0.4 miles
- Ordsall Lane · 0.4 miles
- Manchester Central · 0.6 miles
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Facilities at Salford Central station
Salford Central is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:25 to 19:35 · Sunday: closed
Toilets
From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 August 2026.
Getting to Salford Central station
Salford Central station is in Salford, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M602 J3 (Regent Road Roundabout), 1.2 miles west.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Salford Central Rail Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Salford 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
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