Skipton train station

You can reach 41 stations directly from Skipton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Keighley, with 160 trains a day.

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• 41 direct destinations
• 435th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 100 parking spaces
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Skipton

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

and 9 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Skipton

Skipton is on the Airedale Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Skipton station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Skipton station on 317 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 61 paths on the Wednesday, 20 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 25 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 11:00 to 12:00 on the Monday, with 7 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Skipton station is

1,286,418 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 435th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 11,602 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Skipton and Leeds than any other pair: 359,680 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.

Nearest other stations

• Cononley 2.9 miles
• Gargrave 3.5 miles
• Steeton and Silsden 5.2 miles
• Keighley 8.1 miles
• Ilkley 8.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Skipton, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Elslack · 3.7 miles
• Kildwick and Crosshills · 4.0 miles
• Thornton-in-Craven · 5.0 miles

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Facilities at Skipton station

Skipton is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:50 to 18:20 · Saturday: 05:50 to 18:20 · Sunday: 09:00 to 16:30

Toilets

Parking at Skipton station

• Station Car Park 100 spaces, 3 accessible
  £6.60 a day, £26.40 a week

Cycle parking: 20 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.

Getting to Skipton station

Skipton station is in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M65 J14, 9.9 miles south-west.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Skipton 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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