Wigan Wallgate train station
You can reach 60 stations directly from Wigan Wallgate on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Salford Crescent, with 132 trains a day.
Wigan Wallgate is the nearest station for postcodes in WN1. Check your own postcode.
- 60 direct destinations
- 446th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 15 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Wigan Wallgate
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salford Crescent | 132 | 129 | 15 |
| Hindley | 131 | 128 | 15 |
| Manchester Victoria | 101 | 98 | 15 |
| Salford Central | 98 | 95 | 15 |
| Ince | 96 | 95 | 15 |
| Atherton | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Daisy Hill | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Swinton (Manchester) | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Walkden | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Bolton | 65 | 64 | 0 |
| Hag Fold | 65 | 63 | 15 |
| Westhoughton | 65 | 64 | 0 |
| Appley Bridge | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Burscough Bridge | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Gathurst | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Meols Cop | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Parbold | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Rochdale | 64 | 61 | 0 |
| Southport | 64 | 64 | 15 |
| Todmorden | 63 | 60 | 0 |
| Littleborough | 62 | 60 | 0 |
| Smithy Bridge | 61 | 59 | 0 |
| Walsden | 37 | 36 | 0 |
| Moorside | 36 | 34 | 15 |
| Kearsley | 33 | 32 | 0 |
| Accrington | 32 | 30 | 0 |
| Blackburn | 32 | 30 | 0 |
| Burnley Manchester Road | 32 | 30 | 0 |
| Farnworth | 32 | 31 | 0 |
| Rose Grove | 32 | 30 | 0 |
| Deansgate | 31 | 31 | 0 |
| Hebden Bridge | 31 | 30 | 0 |
| Leeds | 31 | 30 | 0 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 31 | 31 | 0 |
| Moses Gate | 31 | 30 | 0 |
| Mytholmroyd | 31 | 29 | 0 |
| Sowerby Bridge | 31 | 29 | 0 |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 30 | 30 | 0 |
| Stalybridge | 30 | 30 | 0 |
| Brighouse | 29 | 28 | 0 |
and 20 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Wigan Wallgate
Wigan Wallgate is on the West Coast Main Line and the Windsor Bridge North Junction (Salford Crescent) and Southport Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Wigan Wallgate station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Wigan Wallgate station on 37 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 6 paths on the Wednesday, 7 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 14 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 05:00 to 06:00 on the Tuesday, 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 Wigan Wallgate station is
1,253,014 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 446th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 286,727 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Wigan Wallgate and Manchester Victoria than any other pair: 281,426 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: 17 stations instead of 60, a drop of about 72%. Saturday runs to 60.
Nearest other stations
- Wigan North Western 0.1 miles
- Ince 1.0 miles
- Pemberton 1.8 miles
- Hindley 2.5 miles
- Gathurst 2.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Wigan Wallgate, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Wigan Central · 0.3 miles
- Wigan Chapel Lane · 0.3 miles
- Wigan Darlington Street · 0.5 miles
- Whelley · 1.1 miles
- Amberswood · 2.0 miles
- Boar's Head · 2.0 miles
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Facilities at Wigan Wallgate station
Wigan Wallgate is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 19:00 · Saturday: 06:00 to 21:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 20:00
Toilets
Cycle parking: 24 spaces (sheltered, lockers).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 28 May 2026.
Getting to Wigan Wallgate station
Wigan Wallgate station is in Wigan, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M58 J6 (Orrell Interchange), 2.6 miles west.
15 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Wigan Wallgate Rail Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Wigan Wallgate 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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