Whaley Bridge train station

You can reach 14 stations directly from Whaley Bridge on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Buxton, with 51 trains a day.

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• 14 direct destinations
• 1,596th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 21 parking spaces
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Whaley Bridge

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

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Lines serving Whaley Bridge

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

Freight through Whaley Bridge station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Whaley Bridge station on 19 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 4 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 10 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.

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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Whaley Bridge station is

134,408 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,596th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Whaley Bridge and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 56,654 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

• Furness Vale 1.3 miles
• Chinley 1.8 miles
• New Mills Newtown 2.2 miles
• New Mills Central 2.5 miles
• Chapel-en-le-Frith 3.0 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Buxworth · 1.0 miles
• Chapel-en-le-Frith Central · 2.7 miles
• Birch Vale · 3.4 miles
• Hayfield · 3.7 miles
• Higher Poynton · 4.3 miles
• High Lane · 4.7 miles

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Facilities at Whaley Bridge station

Whaley Bridge is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday: 06:50 to 13:20 · Sunday: closed

Parking at Whaley Bridge station

• Station Car Park 21 spaces
  £2.00 a day, £8.00 a week

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 15 May 2026.

Getting to Whaley Bridge station

Whaley Bridge station is in High Peak, East Midlands, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M60 J25 (Bredbury Interchange), 8.7 miles north-west.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Whaley Bridge 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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