Widnes train station
You can reach 52 stations directly from Widnes on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Liverpool Lime Street, with 70 trains a day.
Widnes is the nearest station for postcodes in WA8. Check your own postcode.
- 52 direct destinations
- 950th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 50 parking spaces
- 6 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Widnes
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool Lime Street | 70 | 72 | 39 |
| Liverpool South Parkway | 70 | 72 | 39 |
| Warrington Central | 70 | 72 | 39 |
| Mossley Hill | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| West Allerton | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Hough Green | 40 | 41 | 21 |
| Hunts Cross | 38 | 39 | 21 |
| Halewood | 37 | 38 | 21 |
| Warrington West | 37 | 38 | 21 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 35 | 37 | 39 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 30 | 31 | 18 |
| Chesterfield | 29 | 30 | 18 |
| Nottingham | 29 | 29 | 18 |
| Sheffield | 29 | 30 | 18 |
| Stockport | 28 | 30 | 18 |
| Alfreton | 27 | 28 | 18 |
| Ely | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Grantham | 21 | 23 | 10 |
| Norwich | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterborough | 21 | 22 | 10 |
| Thetford | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Birchwood | 9 | 10 | 21 |
| Edge Hill | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| Ilkeston | 7 | 11 | 3 |
| Dore and Totley | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| Flixton | 6 | 7 | 21 |
| Irlam | 6 | 7 | 21 |
| Padgate | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| Urmston | 6 | 7 | 21 |
| Chinley | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| Dronfield | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Glazebrook | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| March | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Chassen Road | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| Humphrey Park | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| Sankey for Penketh | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Trafford Park | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| Attleborough | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Langley Mill | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| Bamford | 2 | 2 | 1 |
and 12 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Widnes
Widnes is on the Manchester and Allerton Junction Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Widnes station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Widnes 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 Widnes station is
428,030 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 950th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Widnes and Liverpool Lime Street than any other pair: 171,234 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: 33 stations instead of 52, a drop of about 37%. Saturday runs to 46.
Nearest other stations
- Hough Green 1.7 miles
- Runcorn 2.8 miles
- Rainhill 3.0 miles
- Lea Green 3.3 miles
- Whiston 3.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Widnes, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Appleton · 0.8 miles
- Farnworth & Bold · 0.9 miles
- Ann Street Halt · 1.3 miles
- Widnes Central · 1.4 miles
- Widnes South · 1.4 miles
- Tanhouse Lane · 1.4 miles
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Facilities at Widnes station
Widnes is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday: 07:00 to 14:25 · Sunday: closed
Parking at Widnes station
- Station Car Park 50 spaces, 2 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 7 spaces (lockers).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 15 May 2026.
Getting to Widnes station
Widnes station is in Halton, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M62 J7 (Rainhill Stoops Interchange), 1.9 miles north.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Widnes Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Widnes 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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