Sellafield train station
You can reach 31 stations directly from Sellafield on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Askam, with 18 trains a day.
Direct trains from Sellafield
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Askam | 18 | 18 | 12 |
| Barrow-in-Furness | 18 | 18 | 12 |
| Corkickle | 18 | 18 | 12 |
| Foxfield | 18 | 18 | 11 |
| Green Road | 18 | 18 | 11 |
| Kirkby-in-Furness | 18 | 18 | 11 |
| Millom | 18 | 18 | 12 |
| Ravenglass | 18 | 18 | 12 |
| St Bees | 18 | 18 | 12 |
| Seascale | 18 | 18 | 11 |
| Bootle | 17 | 17 | 11 |
| Drigg | 17 | 17 | 11 |
| Silecroft | 17 | 17 | 11 |
| Braystones | 9 | 9 | 5 |
| Nethertown | 9 | 9 | 5 |
| Arnside | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| Cark and Cartmel | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| Carnforth | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| Dalton | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| Grange-over-Sands | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| Lancaster | 8 | 8 | 4 |
| Roose | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| Silverdale | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| Ulverston | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| Kents Bank | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| Preston | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Bolton | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Chorley | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Deansgate | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Gatley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Manchester Airport | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Lines serving Sellafield
Sellafield is on the Cumbrian Coast Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Sellafield station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Sellafield station on 164 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 32 paths on the Wednesday, 10 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 10:00 to 11:00 on the Tuesday, with 5 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 Sellafield station is
187,002 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,435th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 168 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Sellafield and Corkickle than any other pair: 26,428 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.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Sellafield gains 1 destination including Burnage.
Nearest other stations
- Seascale 1.7 miles
- Braystones 2.0 miles
- Nethertown 3.5 miles
- Drigg 3.8 miles
- Ravenglass 5.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Sellafield, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Beckermet · 2.0 miles
- Beckermet Mines · 3.3 miles
- St Thomas Cross Platform · 4.2 miles
- Egremont · 4.9 miles
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Facilities at Sellafield station
Sellafield is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Toilets · Waiting room
From National Rail's station record, last updated 12 May 2026.
Getting to Sellafield station
Sellafield station is in Cumberland, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Sellafield 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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