please empty your brain below
It would be interesting to know what the rarest Tube journeys are e.g. did anyone actually travel from Roding Valley to Croxley in 2022.

dg writes: see footnote here.

Maldenite | 28.06.23 - 7:15 a.m. | #

There is a lot of development taking place at Olympia exhibition centre including a large new theatre I wonder if Kensington Olympia station figures will rise a lot when the new venues open

John | 28.06.23 - 8:21 a.m. | #

Interesting data as ever, although Where are the South London Line and the West London Line in the busiest/quietest London Overground lines?

dg writes: part of the East London Line and North London Line respectively.

Jonathan | 28.06.23 - 8:23 a.m. | #

"Busiest" doesn't take account of how long the line is. I would guess that there are parts of the Northern Line that are much quieter than the Waterloo & City line.

timbo | 28.06.23 - 8:27 a.m. | #

How do TfL split the Watford Overground passengers from Bakerloo line passengers?

Herned | 28.06.23 - 9:13 a.m. | #

Iver's likely to languish at the bottom of the Crossrail list until its potential is exploited. It's in Richings Park, which is small, with Iver village a mile or so away, perfectly driveable/walkable/cyclable except parking is limited and foot/bike access is along a miserable road with a narrow pavement and busy with large lorries. Even the occasional bus no longer serves the station as the council failed to deal with obstructive parking.

Andrew S | 28.06.23 - 9:18 a.m. | #

Data for stations like Wimbledon must be questionable. Yes there are pink Oyster readers and even a tram reader but plenty of people once through the main gate line won't use them because they have a 60+ or Freedom Pass or even a zonal Travelcard.

ap | 28.06.23 - 9:29 a.m. | #

Fascinating. Those numbers for the Victoria line are amazing, considering how short it is. And show how essential its construction in the 1960s was.

Mikey C | 28.06.23 - 9:49 a.m. | #

Barking Riverside may be a commercial failure in passenger numbers so far, but it’s a very rare example of infrastructure pre-dating development. Too often, new estates — especially on brownfield sites — are built long before even basic services (shops, schools or even a bus) arrive, leaving people dependent on cars or stranded. Maybe somebody at TfL studied the history of Metroland (albeit that TfL don’t, in this case, own the development land).

Labourer | 28.06.23 - 9:58 a.m. | #

A friend decries the fact that no trains from Barking Riverside go to Liverpool Street or Fenchurch Street when so many residents work in the City. It often means a scramble at Barking as most C2C trains depart from a different platform.

JohnC | 28.06.23 - 10:29 a.m. | #

Jubilee is 2nd busiest line on weekends?
That'll explain why every time I use it on a Saturday I think to myself 'Gosh, it's busy!'

And yet TfL are reducing the number of trains in circulation on 2 of the 4 busiest lines! Oh joy!

Cornish Cockney | 28.06.23 - 10:57 a.m. | #

Fascinating as ever, but why is the Overground Top 5 not ordered?

Jonathan Wadman | 28.06.23 - 11:48 a.m. | #

Is the Northern line the busiest because it has the most stations?

dg writes: no, because it doesn't.

Ian | 28.06.23 - 3:23 p.m. | #

The figure of the Met is so low that I strongly suspect Metroland dwellers are the most eager to work from home, possibly causing some kind of vicious circle.

Patrickov | 28.06.23 - 4:39 p.m. | #

I'm very surprised the goblin line is so low, that's 600 per day. with around 60 services per day that's not a lot.

I assume that's because it's not counting people getting on at places like barking, Walthamstow central and Blackhorse road.

Alistair Twin | 28.06.23 - 9:58 p.m. | #

These are weekly totals, not annual, so that's actually 32000 passengers per day.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.06.23 - 9:59 p.m. | #

Kensington (Olympia) might be lower in next year's figures because there was no service for a couple of weeks this year due to a points failure.

Lancaster Gate might end up in the least busy Zone 1 stations given how often it's been closed.

matthieu1221 | 29.06.23 - 2:53 p.m. | #

I started working out approximate customer journeys per year per train as a way of judging overall business. I was amazed that each Victoria line train carried approx 5.0m customers in a year or 635,000 passengers/car/year. Given they're only half the length of the Victoria line, Waterloo and City line trains are even busier at about 3.4m passengers/train/year or 850,000 per car.

100andthirty | 29.06.23 - 8:36 p.m. | #

Re Wembley Park, its ranking will very much depend on the week when the measurements were taken. Depending on the schedules of events in the stadium and Ovo arena, the passenger figures will vary enormously.

Lucy Garden | 30.06.23 - 10:03 a.m. | #

Am I the only one who can't get the links to tfl data to work?

Cosmo | 05.07.23 - 12:02 a.m. | #

It's October and the actual spreadsheet is out with annual totals.

Officially, then...

London's ten busiest tube stations
1) King's Cross St Pancras 70m
2) Waterloo 69m
3) Victoria 56.4m
4) London Bridge 56.2m
5) Liverpool Street 55.8m
6) Oxford Circus 54m
7) Tottenham Court Road 49m
8) Stratford 48m
9) Paddington 47m
10) Bond Street 35m

(shuffled from the list in the post)

London's 10 least busy tube stations
1) Kensington (Olympia) ?
2) Roding Valley 259,000
3) Chigwell 313,000
4) Grange Hill 368,000
5) North Ealing 588,000
6) Theydon Bois 679,000
7) Moor Park 729,000
8) Upminster Bridge 740,000
9) Ruislip Gardens 766,000
10) Croxley 811,000

(same order as the list in the post)

DLR bottom 10: Beckton Park, Poplar, Stratford High Street, Abbey Road, Royal Albert, Elverson Road, Blackwall, Star Lane, Prince Regent,
Mudchute

Overground bottom 10: Emerson Park, Bushey, Headstone Lane, Theobalds Grove, Hatch End, South Hampstead, Barking Riverside, Cheshunt, Wandsworth Road, Kilburn High Road

Crossrail bottom 10: Iver, Taplow, Langley, Hanwell, Acton Main Line, Burnham, Twyford, Heathrow Terminal 5, West Drayton, Heathrow Terminal 4

TfL's 10 least busy stations
1) Kensington (Olympia)
2) Emerson Park 257,000
3) Roding Valley 259,000
4) Iver 301,000
5) Chigwell 313,000
6) Grange Hill 368,000
7) Taplow 408,000
8) Beckton Park 487,000
9) Bushey 529,000
10) Headstone Lane 551,000

(rather juggled)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.10.23 - 8:10 p.m. | #











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