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Is this a guest post? I don’t think the real DG’s mind would be blown by counting tube stations.
I love the smell of tube-nerd trivia first thing in the morning.
I wonder what the smallest number of stations is to reach all stations. Problems such as W&C, District, both Northern branches and Met main line (and even excluding stations like MHE and Olympia) mean it is probably four or five rather than three. There's also the question of which station reaches the fewest. Pimlico presumably.
Given the numbers, I assume when it comes to Liverpool Street (Crossrail), Northern line stations other than Moorgate are not counted.
If you include Overground then the least number of stations is Emerson Park (Kensington Olympia will have plenty of connections).

If you include National Rail stations then I guess its either London Bridge or Waterloo, but if are including everything then Liverpool (Merseyrail) and one of the Manchester stations (Metrolink) would score well. Not sure who would score best if you swapped stations served for route miles covered.
I do like that you never quite know what you are going to get when you visit Diamond Geezer's world each morning.

Thank you
Another fascinating post.

From which individual tube platform can you reach the greatest number of tube stations? I would guess the westbound platform at Barking, or perhaps westbound Liverpool Street.
A second mention of my home town, Leighton Buzzard, in as many days? What a treat!
If you include National Rail in London, then Bromley North has the least (but I don't know if there is some obscure once in a blue moon timetabled through service).

For most stations served outside London, Manchester Piccadilly is probably ahead of Victoria, it has the terminal platforms for suburban and mainline trains serving the south, plus the through trains to the north via Oxford Road.
I bet by the time this comes up in a pub quiz, I'll have forgotten the answer again!
Don’t forget the additional TfL Rail / Crossrail Reading services from December. They’ll add a few. Ok less than if the whole route was running.
Forgive me if I am being unusually dense, but if you can only use one train then doesn't that preclude changing lines anywhere?

dg writes: It doesn't hurt to say the same thing twice.
As the XR Liverpool Street - Moorgate station is a single "double-ended" station, with Underground links at both ends without passing through a gateline, does this alter any stations' ranking when XR is included?

dg writes: Probably not, for the same reason that Bank/Monument is two stations.
I'm with Arlo, if you can use only one train then you can't change trains.
And DG's comment only makes things worse...
Mile End is the best connected tube station without Circle Line, while Holborn is the best connected station purely in tube, with no subsurface lines at all.
Aldgate East WB was/is a very well connected platform if you include Sunday departures to Upminster, plus H&C and Circle Line Services.
As DavidC said, is Pimlico the "worst" connected tube station? (before ELL's conversion New Cross and New Cross Gate were probably joint winners)
Most of the day the least-connected tube station is Mill Hill East (1).

But in 'normal' service, the least connected is Kensington Olympia (2).
...looking forward to best connected bus stop!
Don't think the Northern line extension to Battersea will change anything for top10.
Brixton and Vauxhall are as bad as Pimlico, as they only connect to National Rail services
Bank/Monument is a bit of an oddity. Not sure but I suspect the Southern end of a Northern line train might be closer to Monument than Bank.
Where is Waterloo? Northern line to High Barnet and Edgware, Jubilee line (both on night tube), Bakerloo line, W. & City line, quick interchange to Circle and District lines, National Rail services to pretty much all south (including through Waterloo East). By far the best station apart from King's Cross St P.

dg writes: Read the rules again.










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