Whalley train station

You can reach 18 stations directly from Whalley on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Blackburn, with 38 trains a day.

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• 18 direct destinations
• 1,859th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 16 parking spaces
• 2 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Whalley

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

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Lines serving Whalley

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

Freight through Whalley station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Whalley station on 104 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 21 paths on the Wednesday, 2 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 11:00 to 12:00 on the Monday, with 3 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.

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

How busy Whalley station is

81,118 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,859th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Whalley and Manchester Victoria than any other pair: 28,504 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 Whalley. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.

Nearest other stations

• Langho 2.0 miles
• Clitheroe 3.5 miles
• Ramsgreave and Wilpshire 4.1 miles
• Rishton 4.2 miles
• Huncoat 4.5 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Great Harwood · 2.8 miles
• Simonstone · 3.3 miles
• Padiham · 4.3 miles

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Facilities at Whalley station

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

Parking at Whalley station

• Station Car Park 16 spaces

From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 April 2026.

Getting to Whalley station

Whalley station is in Ribble Valley, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M65 J7 (Hyndburn Interchange), 4.0 miles south.

2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Rail Station.

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

Whalley 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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