Wilmslow train station

You can reach 94 stations directly from Wilmslow on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Manchester Piccadilly, with 164 trains a day.

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• 94 direct destinations
• 447th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 120 parking spaces
• 1 bus stop nearby

Direct trains from Wilmslow

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

and 54 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Wilmslow

Wilmslow is on the Styal Line and the Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Wilmslow station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Wilmslow station on 378 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 64 paths on the Wednesday, 60 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 55 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 02:00 to 03:00 on the Saturday, with 8 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 Wilmslow station is

1,248,708 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 447th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 110,393 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Wilmslow and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 429,576 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: 47 stations instead of 94, a drop of about 50%. Saturday runs to 75.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Wilmslow loses 2 destinations including Milford Haven, Johnston.

Nearest other stations

• Handforth 1.4 miles
• Styal 1.6 miles
• Alderley Edge 1.7 miles
• Heald Green 3.0 miles
• Manchester Airport 3.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Cheadle railway station (M&BR) · 3.4 miles
• Manchester Interchange · 4.1 miles
• Cheadle · 4.7 miles

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Facilities at Wilmslow station

Wilmslow is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Tuesday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Saturday: 07:00 to 20:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 19:00

Toilets

Parking at Wilmslow station

• Station Car Park 120 spaces, 4 accessible
  £2.00 an hour, £8.80 a day, £35.20 a week

Cycle parking: 30 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 26 June 2026.

Getting to Wilmslow station

Wilmslow station is in Cheshire East, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M56 J6 (Hale Four Seasons), 3.8 miles north-west.

1 bus stop is within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

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

Wilmslow 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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