Smithy Bridge train station

You can reach 54 stations directly from Smithy Bridge on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Littleborough, with 73 trains a day.

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• 54 direct destinations
• 1,425th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 20 parking spaces
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Smithy Bridge

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

and 14 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Smithy Bridge

Smithy Bridge is on the Caldervale Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Smithy Bridge station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Smithy Bridge station on 168 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 32 paths on the Wednesday, 12 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 50 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 23:00 to 00:00 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.

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

How busy Smithy Bridge station is

191,406 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,425th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Smithy Bridge and Manchester Victoria than any other pair: 107,630 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: 13 stations instead of 54, a drop of about 76%. Saturday runs to 44.

Nearest other stations

• Littleborough 1.0 miles
• Rochdale 2.2 miles
• Castleton 3.8 miles
• Walsden 4.4 miles
• Todmorden 5.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Wardleworth · 1.6 miles
• Milnrow · 1.7 miles
• New Hey · 2.3 miles
• Shawclough and Healey · 2.6 miles
• Broadley · 2.9 miles
• Whitworth · 3.1 miles

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Facilities at Smithy Bridge station

Smithy Bridge is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Smithy Bridge station

• Station Car Park 20 spaces

From National Rail's station record, last updated 12 May 2026.

Getting to Smithy Bridge station

Smithy Bridge station is in Rochdale, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M62 J21 (Milnrow Interchange), 2.0 miles south.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Smithy Bridge Station.

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

Smithy Bridge 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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