Shotton train station

You can reach 61 stations directly from Shotton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Chester, with 65 trains a day.

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Address: Chester Road West, Deeside, CH5 1BX

Shotton is the nearest station for postcodes in CH5. Check your own postcode.

61 direct destinations
1,199th busiest in Britain
Staffed part time
Step-free in part
26 parking spaces
1 bus stop nearby

Direct trains from Shotton

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Chester	65	65	25
Colwyn Bay	65	65	25
Flint	65	65	24
Llandudno Junction	65	65	25
Prestatyn	65	65	24
Rhyl	65	65	25
Frodsham	62	59	3
Helsby	62	59	3
Wrexham General	42	42	26
Buckley	41	41	21
Bidston	41	41	21
Caergwrle	41	41	21
Cefn-y-Bedd	41	41	21
Gwersyllt	41	41	21
Hope (Flintshire)	41	41	21
Heswall	41	41	21
Hawarden Bridge	41	41	21
Hawarden	41	41	21
Neston	41	41	21
Penyffordd	41	41	21
Upton	41	41	21
Abergele and Pensarn	38	37	22
Earlestown	35	32	3
Manchester Piccadilly	35	32	3
Manchester Oxford Road	35	32	3
Newton-le-Willows	35	32	3
Runcorn East	35	32	3
Warrington Bank Quay	34	32	3
Bangor	34	31	24
Conwy	34	31	15
East Didsbury	35	31	0
Holyhead	34	31	24
Llanfairfechan	34	31	15
Llanfairpwll	34	31	24
Manchester Airport	35	31	1
Penmaenmawr	34	31	15
Deganwy	27	30	0
Llandudno	27	30	0
Liverpool Lime Street	27	27	0
Liverpool South Parkway	27	27	0

and 22 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Shotton

Shotton is on the North Wales Coast Line and the Borderlands Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Shotton station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Shotton station on 108 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 17 paths on the Wednesday, 11 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 33 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 08:00 to 09:00 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 Shotton station is

276,948 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,199th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 22,323 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Shotton and Chester than any other pair: 41,970 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.