Stafford train station
You can reach 81 stations directly from Stafford on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Crewe, with 231 trains a day.
Stafford is the nearest station for postcodes in ST16, ST17, ST18, ST20. Check your own postcode.
- 81 direct destinations
- 231st busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 519 parking spaces
- 4 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Stafford
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crewe | 231 | 202 | 141 |
| Wolverhampton | 160 | 156 | 96 |
| Birmingham New Street | 159 | 155 | 96 |
| London Euston | 125 | 128 | 109 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 98 | 120 | 88 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 93 | 119 | 87 |
| Stockport | 89 | 117 | 87 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 63 | 89 | 54 |
| Runcorn | 63 | 89 | 53 |
| Birmingham International | 62 | 59 | 53 |
| Coventry | 62 | 59 | 51 |
| Penkridge | 61 | 62 | 26 |
| Liverpool South Parkway | 60 | 60 | 25 |
| Macclesfield | 59 | 87 | 62 |
| Rugby | 47 | 62 | 55 |
| Milton Keynes Central | 46 | 90 | 81 |
| Lichfield Trent Valley | 39 | 2 | 3 |
| Nuneaton | 39 | 1 | 3 |
| Tamworth | 39 | 2 | 3 |
| Atherstone | 36 | 1 | 2 |
| Hartford | 36 | 32 | 25 |
| Rugeley Trent Valley | 36 | 1 | 2 |
| Smethwick Galton Bridge | 36 | 35 | 26 |
| Alsager | 35 | 32 | 26 |
| Kidsgrove | 35 | 32 | 26 |
| Longport | 35 | 32 | 25 |
| Stone | 35 | 32 | 26 |
| Acton Bridge | 33 | 30 | 25 |
| Sandwell and Dudley | 33 | 33 | 28 |
| Winsford | 33 | 31 | 25 |
| Banbury | 31 | 29 | 24 |
| Leamington Spa | 31 | 29 | 24 |
| Oxford | 31 | 29 | 24 |
| Preston | 31 | 32 | 25 |
| Reading | 31 | 29 | 24 |
| Warrington Bank Quay | 31 | 32 | 25 |
| Wigan North Western | 31 | 32 | 25 |
| Basingstoke | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Southampton Airport Parkway | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Southampton Central | 29 | 29 | 22 |
and 41 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Stafford
Stafford is on the West Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Stafford station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Stafford station on 1,313 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 242 paths on the Wednesday, 156 paths on the Saturday and 13 paths on the Sunday. 177 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Tuesday, with 21 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 Stafford station is
2,456,512 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 231st busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 533,274 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Stafford and London Euston than any other pair: 512,610 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, Stafford gains 4 destinations including Tame Bridge Parkway, Plymouth, Blackpool North, Totnes.
Nearest other stations
- Penkridge 5.5 miles
- Stone 7.4 miles
- Hednesford 8.2 miles
- Rugeley Trent Valley 8.4 miles
- Rugeley Town 8.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Stafford, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Stafford Common · 1.3 miles
- Great Bridgeford · 3.3 miles
- Haughton · 3.5 miles
- Milford and Brocton · 3.6 miles
- Salt and Sandon · 3.8 miles
- Sandon · 4.3 miles
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Facilities at Stafford station
Stafford is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Sunday: 08:30 to 20:00
Toilets · Waiting room
Parking at Stafford station
- Stafford Multi-Storey Car Park 451 spaces, 14 accessible
£12.50 a day - Stafford Car Park 2 68 spaces, 2 accessible
£12.50 a day
Cycle parking: 126 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 September 2026.
Getting to Stafford station
Stafford station is in Stafford, West Midlands, and is run by Avanti West Coast.
The nearest motorway junction is M6 J14 (Creswell Interchange), 1.8 miles north-west.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Stafford 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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