Styal train station

You can reach 30 stations directly from Styal on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Burnage, with 38 trains a day.

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• 30 direct destinations
• 2,206th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 14 parking spaces
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Styal

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

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Lines serving Styal

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

Freight through Styal station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Styal station on 307 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 56 paths on the Wednesday, 39 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 54 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 Saturday, with 6 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 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 Styal station is

28,058 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,206th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Styal and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 5,716 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

There is no Sunday service from Styal. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.

Changing from 24 March 2027

From 24 March 2027, Styal loses 2 destinations including Goostrey, Chelford.

Nearest other stations

• Handforth 1.1 miles
• Heald Green 1.5 miles
• Wilmslow 1.6 miles
• Manchester Airport 1.8 miles
• Cheadle Hulme 2.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Cheadle railway station (M&BR) · 2.6 miles
• Manchester Interchange · 2.7 miles
• Cheadle · 3.4 miles
• Northenden · 3.5 miles
• Cheadle North · 3.8 miles
• Cheadle Heath · 4.2 miles

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Facilities at Styal station

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

Parking at Styal station

• Station Car Park 14 spaces

Cycle parking: 22 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 28 May 2026.

Getting to Styal station

Styal station is in Cheshire East, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M56 J6 (Hale Four Seasons), 2.5 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.

Styal 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