Upton train station
You can reach 14 stations directly from Upton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Buckley, with 41 trains a day.
Address: Noctorum Avenue, Prenton, CH43 9RY
Upton is the nearest station for postcodes in CH30, CH49, CH43, CH26. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Upton
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckley | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Bidston | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Caergwrle | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Cefn-y-Bedd | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Gwersyllt | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Hope (Flintshire) | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Heswall | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Hawarden Bridge | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Hawarden | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Neston | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Penyffordd | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Shotton | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Wrexham General | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Wrexham Central | 5 | 7 | 16 |
Lines serving Upton
Upton is on the Borderlands Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Upton station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Upton station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Upton station is
22,192 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,259th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Upton and Shotton than any other pair: 5,346 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.
Nearest other stations
- Bidston 1.6 miles
- Leasowe 1.6 miles
- Birkenhead North 1.7 miles
- Moreton 1.9 miles
- Birkenhead Park 2.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Upton, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Beechwood · 0.8 miles
- Woodchurch · 1.3 miles
- Birkenhead Dock · 1.8 miles
- Liscard and Poulton · 2.3 miles
- Town Meadow · 2.4 miles
- Cathcart Street Goods · 2.6 miles
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Facilities at Upton station
Upton is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Parking at Upton station
- Station Car Park
From National Rail's station record, last updated 19 May 2026.
Getting to Upton station
Upton station is in Wirral, North West, and is run by TfW Rail.
The nearest motorway junction is M53 J2 (Moreton Spur), 0.4 miles north.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Upton Interchange.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Upton 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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