Sandbach railway station
You can reach 19 stations directly from Sandbach on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Alderley Edge, with 64 trains a day.
Sandbach is the nearest station for postcodes in CW11. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Sandbach
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alderley Edge | 64 | 64 | 17 |
| Crewe | 64 | 64 | 17 |
| Holmes Chapel | 64 | 64 | 16 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 64 | 64 | 17 |
| Wilmslow | 64 | 64 | 17 |
| Chelford | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Cheadle Hulme | 36 | 36 | 17 |
| Goostrey | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Heaton Chapel | 36 | 36 | 2 |
| Handforth | 36 | 36 | 17 |
| Levenshulme | 36 | 36 | 1 |
| Stockport | 36 | 36 | 17 |
| Burnage | 28 | 28 | 0 |
| East Didsbury | 28 | 28 | 0 |
| Gatley | 28 | 28 | 0 |
| Heald Green | 28 | 28 | 0 |
| Mauldeth Road | 28 | 28 | 0 |
| Manchester Airport | 28 | 28 | 0 |
| Styal | 28 | 28 | 0 |
How busy Sandbach is
294,738 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,166th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Sandbach and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 100,728 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: 12 stations instead of 19, a drop of about 37%. Saturday runs to 19.
Nearest other stations
- Holmes Chapel 3.8 miles
- Crewe 4.5 miles
- Winsford 5.0 miles
- Alsager 5.6 miles
- Goostrey 5.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Sandbach, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Wheelock & Sandbach · 1.4 miles
- Cledford Bridge Halt · 2.6 miles
- Hassall Green · 3.1 miles
- Minshull Vernon · 3.2 miles
- Coppenhall · 3.4 miles
- Middlewich · 3.6 miles
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More about this station on Wikipedia.