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I love this annual update! And good to check against data that the tube as a whole isn't always busier. Wonder if bus hoppers have contributed to that?
Apologetically, can I include my first ever attempt at pedantry, despite being fully aware this amazing service is provided free of charge every day at an exceptional quality level: I think Leytonstone and Chalk Farm have appeared in the wrong colours
dg writes: It's traditional that I make at least one cut-and-paste error every year. Thanks for spotting this year's.
Tom | 12.06.18 - 7:17 a.m. | #
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Perhaps people are flocking to St Pancras to hear or play the public piano there!
John | 12.06.18 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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At places like Stratford, Moorgate and Old Street where the gate line is shared with the National Rail services, no do they disagreeable the Underground travellers from the National Rail travellers?
100andthirty | 12.06.18 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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Also, isn't it amazing that, compared with the rest of the UK there are only 7 tube stations that don't get 1mn passengers a year.
dg writes: 78% of National Rail stations get fewer than 1m passengers a year!
100andthirty | 12.06.18 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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Is this is the first full year of the night tube?, glancing at the data, some stations with a 24 hour service have lost passengers at weekends.
Still Anon | 12.06.18 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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Surely "rather millions of Londoners changing for the Dangleway"?
Well, maybe a million.
Wolf | 12.06.18 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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Victoria, with its single down escalator to the Victoria Line, is a station to avoid, especially with luggage. A lot of the 'passengers with luggage' who DO use Victoria have come off trains from Gatwick.
Thameslink (prior to May 20th) provided a reasonably reliable service from Gatwick to Kings X / St P (avoiding Victoria). When Crossrail opens (and GTR have got their Thameslink drivers trained) Paddington, Liverpool Street and Heathrow will also have routes that avoid balancing a 60Kg suitcase on the step of a moving escalator at Victoria.
Even with the changes at Victoria (building work seems to have gone on forever), one can expect no increase in useage because other routes will be more attractive.
RayL | 12.06.18 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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What I found most surprising was how many passengers used (hence how up the list is) Kensington Olympia, given its minimal service most of the time - or are Overground passengers included in the figure?
Jeremy | 12.06.18 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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I wonder how much the Waterloo National Rail closures last August impacted its figures?
lockedintheattic | 12.06.18 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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Always love this update DG!
One query though - isn't Brixton also an NR station?
dg writes: There is an NR station, but it's quite separate.
BP | 12.06.18 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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I visited Chigwell station twice last year doing the London LOOP walk. A few more people doing the LOOP and numbers might break the 500,000 mark!
Upminster Bridge is also on the LOOP but I continued directly on to the next leg so didn't use it.
Mikey C | 12.06.18 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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If entry/exit figures continue to be the main measure, Farringdon could become actually one of the busiest without appearing on the list.
kev | 12.06.18 - 11:09 a.m. | #
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Oh Tube Guru.
Has TfL's extensive data gathering operation been impacted by the GDPR?
They really must know rather a lot about a lot of people by now.
drD | Homepage | 12.06.18 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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The 12 busiest stations on one line only
Canary Wharf, Brixton, Vauxhall, North Greenwich, Old Street, Shepherd's Bush, Camden Town, Highbury & Islington, Angel, Seven Sisters, Covent Garden, Chancery Lane.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.06.18 - 11:30 a.m. | #
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@drD Re: GDPR
It depends on what TfL are keeping. If, after, say, 30 days, they remove your details from a journey, but still note that a person made a journey from A to B, then it's not a problem. (i.e. Anonymized the data)
It's when they keep for posterity all the details for all the journeys you make that GDPR really kicks in.
NB Anonymizing data properly is actually quite hard. You can use all sorts of statistical techniques to de-anonymize data and reveal the people.
Jon Jones | 12.06.18 - 11:34 a.m. | #
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The least busy tube station in each zone (2017)
since Kensington (Olympia) isn't a full time station - presumably Goldhawk Road is the next least busy Zone 2 station ?
dg writes: It is, with 2.1m passengers.
ADS | Homepage | 12.06.18 - 11:37 a.m. | #
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it seems a bit coincidental that Chorleywood has dropped and neighbouring stations have increased - i wonder if TfL have changed their calculation method ?!
ADS | Homepage | 12.06.18 - 11:39 a.m. | #
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Lambeth North is lucky to be still around. A real candidate for the chop, I reckon, if it wasn't such bad publicity for TFL.
Mark | 12.06.18 - 12:05 p.m. | #
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Terrorism usually affects transport numbers and with a few incidents in 2017 that may have impacted. Similarly with national rail as numbers travelling in to Manchester took a long time to recover after the bomb there.
Anders | 12.06.18 - 1:49 p.m. | #
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I'm afraid that the "add then divide by two" trick doesn't always work.
During my trip into London last month, I entered the Oyster system from East Croydon and exited at KXSP (hopefully continuing its champion status). While I changed at Whitechapel it's not necessary for me to "touch pink". In that case LU had probably only counted me once.
P.S. Glad that I used the "meanest" station as well.
Patrickov | 12.06.18 - 2:33 p.m. | #
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@ADS: Chalfont also dropped while Chesham has risen. I guess more Bucks residents chose Chesham to start their journey instead of the two stations (Chalfont, Chorleywood) further in. (can be clearer if we have figures of Amersham)
Patrickov | 12.06.18 - 2:37 p.m. | #
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I'm curious about the total number of journeys made on the tube.....Is that number supposed to be 4 digits? Wouldn't that be 1 billion 473 million? I don't think I've ever seen it expressed this way.
Steven | Homepage | 12.06.18 - 6:54 p.m. | #
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Interesting that of the stations with the biggest decline in 10 years 7 are in particularly rich/expensive areas. I guess that people who would use the tube to commute from those stations simply cannot afford to live in those areas anymore. Probably why previously affordable Chesham has seen a big increase while even more unaffordable Chorleywood has seen a decrease. Of course there is also the factor of direct trains to London now but Chesham is still much more affordable than many places in the home counties.
Oliver Elkington | 12.06.18 - 8:05 p.m. | #
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Your annual reminder that statistics vary, and picking a single reason to explain why changes may have happened is unlikely to be correct.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.06.18 - 8:13 p.m. | #
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@Mark
Closing Lambeth North is unlikely, as it would just make Waterloo even busier. Cheaper to keep it open than build a new entrance at Waterloo.
(Would the new entrance at Holborn have been needed so urgently if Aldwych was still open?)
timbo again | Homepage | 12.06.18 - 8:28 p.m. | #
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Lambeth North is very handy for Morley College or the Imperial War Museum so I doubt it would ever close.
I think the lifts there were renovated a few years ago.
John | 12.06.18 - 8:43 p.m. | #
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"The least busy tube station in each zone (2017)
zone 1) Lambeth North (3.5m)"
Hell, yes. Used to lived near that station and loved it.
G | 12.06.18 - 10:21 p.m. | #
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@RayL
Victoria has had a new entrance and two more escalators down to the Victoria line since February 2017. And now lifts, too.
Geofftech | 13.06.18 - 8:05 a.m. | #
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Presumably the Waterloo blockade impacted significantly.
Messiah | 14.06.18 - 7:45 a.m. | #
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TCR and Farringdon will change once Crossrail opens properly too as will Whitechapel. There may be a marked drop off in journeys via LST as a result once it beds in. Also Paddington may take a hit once the LHR branch is fully open and attracts people off the Piccadilly line.
Drew | Homepage | 14.06.18 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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