Whitehaven train station
You can reach 9 stations directly from Whitehaven on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Maryport, with 37 trains a day.
- 9 direct destinations
- 1,188th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 30 parking spaces
Direct trains from Whitehaven
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryport | 37 | 38 | 23 |
| Parton | 37 | 38 | 23 |
| Workington | 37 | 38 | 23 |
| Aspatria | 36 | 35 | 22 |
| Carlisle | 36 | 35 | 22 |
| Dalston | 36 | 35 | 22 |
| Flimby | 36 | 37 | 22 |
| Harrington | 36 | 37 | 22 |
| Wigton | 36 | 35 | 22 |
Lines serving Whitehaven
Whitehaven is on the Cumbrian Coast Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Whitehaven station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Whitehaven station on 58 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 11 paths on the Wednesday, 7 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 17:00 to 18:00 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Whitehaven station is
285,082 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,188th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Whitehaven and Carlisle than any other pair: 73,028 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
- Corkickle 0.8 miles
- Parton 1.2 miles
- St Bees 4.2 miles
- Harrington 4.3 miles
- Workington 6.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Whitehaven, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Moorside railway station, Cumbria · 0.2 miles
- Preston Street · 0.6 miles
- Moresby Parks · 1.5 miles
- Parton Halt · 1.5 miles
- Moresby Junction Halt · 1.6 miles
- Millgrove · 1.9 miles
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Facilities at Whitehaven station
Whitehaven is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:15 to 18:30 · Saturday: 06:15 to 17:00 · Sunday: closed
Toilets
Parking at Whitehaven station
- Station Car Park 30 spaces, 2 accessible
£4.40 a day, £17.60 a week
Cycle parking: 6 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 June 2026.
Getting to Whitehaven station
Whitehaven station is in Cumberland, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Whitehaven 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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