Salford Crescent train station
You can reach 85 stations directly from Salford Crescent on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bolton, with 206 trains a day.
See Salford Crescent on the map
Salford Crescent is the nearest station for postcodes in M5, M6, M50, M7. Check your own postcode.
- 85 direct destinations
- 427th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 3 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Salford Crescent
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton | 206 | 206 | 40 |
| Manchester Victoria | 171 | 169 | 31 |
| Salford Central | 167 | 165 | 30 |
| Hindley | 136 | 134 | 15 |
| Wigan Wallgate | 132 | 129 | 15 |
| Rochdale | 128 | 125 | 0 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 104 | 104 | 24 |
| Deansgate | 102 | 102 | 24 |
| Ince | 98 | 98 | 15 |
| Blackburn | 97 | 95 | 16 |
| Blackpool North | 73 | 73 | 23 |
| Buckshaw Parkway | 73 | 73 | 24 |
| Chorley | 73 | 73 | 24 |
| Horwich Parkway | 73 | 73 | 24 |
| Kirkham and Wesham | 73 | 73 | 23 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 73 | 73 | 20 |
| Manchester Airport | 73 | 73 | 19 |
| Poulton-le-Fylde | 73 | 73 | 23 |
| Preston | 73 | 73 | 24 |
| Lostock | 70 | 70 | 24 |
| Leyland | 69 | 69 | 24 |
| Atherton | 70 | 68 | 15 |
| Daisy Hill | 70 | 68 | 15 |
| Swinton (Manchester) | 70 | 68 | 15 |
| Westhoughton | 68 | 68 | 0 |
| Walkden | 70 | 68 | 15 |
| Bromley Cross | 65 | 65 | 16 |
| Darwen | 65 | 65 | 16 |
| Hag Fold | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Hall i' th' Wood | 65 | 65 | 16 |
| Castleton | 63 | 63 | 0 |
| Littleborough | 64 | 63 | 0 |
| Mills Hill | 63 | 63 | 0 |
| Moston | 63 | 63 | 0 |
| Todmorden | 65 | 63 | 0 |
| Appley Bridge | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Burscough Bridge | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Gathurst | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Meols Cop | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Parbold | 62 | 62 | 14 |
and 49 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Salford Crescent
Salford Crescent is on the Manchester to Southport Line and the Manchester to Preston 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 Crescent station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Salford Crescent station on 124 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 23 paths on the Wednesday, 10 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 31 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 3 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 Crescent station is
1,306,766 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 427th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 175,992 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Salford Crescent and Manchester Victoria than any other pair: 151,402 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: 44 stations instead of 85, a drop of about 48%. Saturday runs to 89.
Nearest other stations
- Salford Central 0.9 miles
- Deansgate 1.3 miles
- Manchester Victoria 1.4 miles
- Manchester Oxford Road 1.6 miles
- Manchester Piccadilly 2.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Salford Crescent, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Cross Lane · 0.5 miles
- Oldfield Road · 0.5 miles
- Pendleton · 0.5 miles
- Pendleton Bridge · 0.6 miles
- Ordsall Lane · 0.7 miles
- Seedley · 0.9 miles
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Facilities at Salford Crescent station
Salford Crescent is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:30 to 21:45 · Sunday: 09:10 to 16:00
Toilets
From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.
Getting to Salford Crescent station
Salford Crescent station is in Salford, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M602 J3 (Regent Road Roundabout), 0.6 miles south-west.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Salford Crescent Rail Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Salford Crescent 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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