Stoke-on-Trent train station
You can reach 75 stations directly from Stoke-on-Trent on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Manchester Piccadilly, with 160 trains a day.
Address: Station Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2AA
Stoke-on-Trent is the nearest station for postcodes in ST4, ST1, ST2. Check your own postcode.
- 75 direct destinations
- 178th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 484 parking spaces
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Stoke-on-Trent
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester Piccadilly | 160 | 148 | 83 |
| Stockport | 158 | 147 | 83 |
| Macclesfield | 133 | 122 | 67 |
| Kidsgrove | 104 | 98 | 41 |
| Stafford | 98 | 120 | 88 |
| Crewe | 70 | 65 | 41 |
| Alsager | 67 | 64 | 41 |
| London Euston | 65 | 55 | 44 |
| Birmingham New Street | 63 | 59 | 39 |
| Wolverhampton | 63 | 59 | 39 |
| Longport | 40 | 38 | 25 |
| Adlington (Cheshire) | 37 | 34 | 0 |
| Bramhall | 37 | 34 | 0 |
| Cheadle Hulme | 37 | 34 | 0 |
| Congleton | 37 | 34 | 0 |
| Prestbury | 37 | 34 | 0 |
| Poynton | 37 | 34 | 0 |
| Milton Keynes Central | 36 | 29 | 27 |
| Stone | 35 | 32 | 26 |
| Beeston | 32 | 31 | 0 |
| Birmingham International | 32 | 29 | 23 |
| Blythe Bridge | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Coventry | 32 | 29 | 23 |
| Derby | 32 | 33 | 15 |
| Long Eaton | 32 | 31 | 0 |
| Longton | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Nottingham | 32 | 29 | 0 |
| Nuneaton | 32 | 26 | 17 |
| Tutbury and Hatton | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Uttoxeter | 32 | 32 | 15 |
| Attenborough | 30 | 29 | 0 |
| Banbury | 30 | 29 | 23 |
| Leamington Spa | 30 | 29 | 23 |
| Oxford | 30 | 29 | 23 |
| Reading | 30 | 29 | 23 |
| Rugby | 30 | 29 | 24 |
| Basingstoke | 28 | 29 | 21 |
| Southampton Airport Parkway | 28 | 29 | 21 |
| Southampton Central | 28 | 29 | 21 |
| Winchester | 28 | 29 | 21 |
and 35 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent is on the Stafford to Manchester Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Stoke-on-Trent station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Stoke-on-Trent station on 196 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 45 paths on the Wednesday, 3 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 69 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 01:00 to 02:00 on the Wednesday, with 8 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 Stoke-on-Trent station is
3,015,802 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 178th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 177,469 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 710,004 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: 47 stations instead of 75, a drop of about 37%. Saturday runs to 59.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Stoke-on-Trent gains 4 destinations including Penkridge, Tame Bridge Parkway, Plymouth, Totnes.
Nearest other stations
- Longton 2.2 miles
- Longport 2.8 miles
- Blythe Bridge 5.5 miles
- Kidsgrove 6.0 miles
- Stone 7.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Stoke-on-Trent, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Fenton Manor · 0.7 miles
- Hartshill and Basford Halt · 1.1 miles
- Etruria · 1.1 miles
- Fenton · 1.2 miles
- Hanley · 1.2 miles
- Bucknall and Northwood · 1.5 miles
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Facilities at Stoke-on-Trent station
Stoke-on-Trent is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:55 to 20:00 · Saturday: 06:25 to 19:30 · Sunday: 08:55 to 20:30
Toilets · Waiting room · WiFi
Parking at Stoke-on-Trent station
- Stoke on Trent Car Park 2 24 spaces
£12.50 a day - Stoke-on-Trent Car Park 3 460 spaces, 20 accessible
£12.50 a day
Cycle parking: 88 spaces (sheltered, compounds).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 15 August 2026.
Getting to Stoke-on-Trent station
Stoke-on-Trent station is in Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, and is run by Avanti West Coast.
The nearest motorway junction is M6 J15 (Hanchurch Interchange), 2.9 miles south-west.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Stoke-on-Trent rail station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Stoke-on-Trent 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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