St Helens Junction train station
You can reach 31 stations directly from St Helens Junction on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Huyton, with 46 trains a day.
See St Helens Junction on the map
Address: Station Road, St Helens, WA9 3LA
- 31 direct destinations
- 1,381st busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free in part
- 240 parking spaces
- 7 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from St Helens Junction
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huyton | 46 | 44 | 16 |
| Lea Green | 46 | 44 | 16 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 46 | 44 | 16 |
| Rainhill | 46 | 44 | 16 |
| Earlestown | 45 | 44 | 16 |
| Broad Green | 44 | 44 | 16 |
| Newton-le-Willows | 44 | 43 | 16 |
| Roby | 44 | 44 | 16 |
| Wavertree Technology Park | 44 | 44 | 16 |
| Whiston | 44 | 44 | 16 |
| Edge Hill | 43 | 43 | 0 |
| Eccles | 40 | 40 | 16 |
| Patricroft | 39 | 39 | 16 |
| Burnage | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| East Didsbury | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Gatley | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Heald Green | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Mauldeth Road | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Manchester Airport | 36 | 36 | 16 |
| Deansgate | 35 | 35 | 16 |
| Manchester Victoria | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Wigan North Western | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Ellesmere Port | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Helsby | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ince and Elton | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Runcorn East | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Styal | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Warrington Bank Quay | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Wilmslow | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving St Helens Junction
St Helens Junction is on the Deal Street and Edge Hill Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through St Helens Junction station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside St Helens Junction station on 237 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 42 paths on the Wednesday, 23 paths on the Saturday and 11 paths on the Sunday. 58 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 Thursday, 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 St Helens Junction station is
206,320 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,381st busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between St Helens Junction and Liverpool Lime Street than any other pair: 51,932 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: 21 stations instead of 31, a drop of about 32%. Saturday runs to 31.
Nearest other stations
- Lea Green 1.1 miles
- St Helens Central 1.8 miles
- Thatto Heath 2.5 miles
- Earlestown 2.8 miles
- Rainhill 3.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of St Helens Junction, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Robins Lane Halt · 0.4 miles
- Sutton Oak · 0.5 miles
- Peasley Cross · 1.1 miles
- Clock Face · 1.2 miles
- Collins Green · 1.7 miles
- St Helens Central (GCR) · 2.1 miles
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Facilities at St Helens Junction station
St Helens Junction is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:05 to 23:50 · Sunday: 08:20 to 23:35
Parking at St Helens Junction station
- Station Car Park 240 spaces, 16 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 12 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 30 March 2026.
Getting to St Helens Junction station
St Helens Junction station is in St. Helens, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M62 J7 (Rainhill Stoops Interchange), 2.2 miles south-west.
7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being St Helens Junction Interchange.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
St Helens Junction 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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