Thirsk train station
You can reach 23 stations directly from Thirsk on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Northallerton, with 47 trains a day.
Thirsk is the nearest station for postcodes in YO7, HG4. Check your own postcode.
- 23 direct destinations
- 1,179th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 76 parking spaces
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Thirsk
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northallerton | 47 | 50 | 38 |
| York | 47 | 50 | 40 |
| Eaglescliffe | 45 | 47 | 39 |
| Middlesbrough | 33 | 35 | 29 |
| Thornaby | 33 | 35 | 29 |
| Yarm | 33 | 35 | 29 |
| Hartlepool | 12 | 12 | 10 |
| London King's Cross | 12 | 12 | 10 |
| Sunderland | 12 | 12 | 10 |
| Seaham | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Darlington | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Dewsbury | 30 | 2 | 0 |
| Huddersfield | 30 | 2 | 0 |
| Leeds | 31 | 2 | 0 |
| Manchester Victoria | 31 | 2 | 0 |
| Peterborough | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Chester-le-Street | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Durham | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Greenfield | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lea Green | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 30 | 1 | 0 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 29 | 1 | 0 |
| Manchester Airport | 30 | 1 | 0 |
| Mossley | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Marsden | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Newcastle | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Slaithwaite | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Stalybridge | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Thirsk
Thirsk is on the East Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Thirsk station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Thirsk station on 572 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 102 paths on the Wednesday, 54 paths on the Saturday and 17 paths on the Sunday. 117 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 Wednesday, with 11 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 Thirsk station is
288,024 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,179th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Thirsk and York than any other pair: 95,760 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 23, a drop of about 43%. Saturday runs to 29.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Thirsk gains 8 destinations including Lea Green, Newcastle, Mirfield, Brighouse, Newton-le-Willows, Liverpool Lime Street.
Nearest other stations
- Northallerton 7.7 miles
- Knaresborough 15.7 miles
- Cattal 16.1 miles
- Hammerton 16.5 miles
- Starbeck 16.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Thirsk, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Thirsk Town · 1.1 miles
- Topcliffe · 2.2 miles
- Sessay · 4.2 miles
- Baldersby · 4.2 miles
- Otterington · 4.3 miles
- Pickhill · 4.3 miles
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Facilities at Thirsk station
Thirsk is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 19:45 · Saturday: 06:00 to 19:45 · Sunday: 08:45 to 17:30
Waiting room · WiFi
Parking at Thirsk station
- Station Car Park 76 spaces, 5 accessible
£3.90 a day, £17.50 a week
Cycle parking: 44 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 18 February 2026.
Getting to Thirsk station
Thirsk station is in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by TransPennine Express.
The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J50 (Baldersby Interchange), 4.6 miles south-west.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Rail Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Thirsk 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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