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Look forward to the Purple line table next year. My money is on Liverpool St 1st then Paddington, with Custom House bottom.
I'm surprised that Pudding Mill Lane finds itself at the No. 2 position in the DLR least used table. It is the closest station to the London Stadium and was extremely busy when my daughter and I went there for a match last Autumn. However, in hindsight there wasn't much else there at the time.

The new ABBA arena also lies adjacent so it will definitely climb the charts for next year. A re-release of sorts perhaps.
Pre-pandemic around 30 million passengers annually were predicted for the Crossrail part of Farringdon, so that might be the busiest eventually. Maybe not initially whilst changes (and tapping in / out) on more journeys at Paddington / Liverpool Street is still necessary though.
Moorgate will jump up the list because it'll be a more attractive interchange than Bank or London Bridge for Northern Line passengers and those on the GN might prefer it to changing at Highbury & Islington for the Victoria.

Custom House will be pulling in passengers from the Beckton branch as well as exhibition traffic - so it'll probably be the busiest 'least used station' that TfL operates on the new section, I'd be curious if the second least used will be Abbey Wood or Woolwich, I can't see either of them being higher than the others.
Passing through Farringdon on my usual Thameslink commute last week, I was surprised at the number of people piling off and others piling on with heaps of luggage. Perhaps half term had an impact, but I guess that is what happens when you create an east-west, north-south interchange connecting three London airports.
Gloucester Road would appear to have benefited from the Piccadilly closure at South Kensington.
Do we know which week they use? Wembley park would have some days which would be exceptionally busy due to stadium/arena traffic
"A typical day represents 0500-0500 for each day in autumn each year. Data is collected for each weekday (Monday-Thursday), Friday, Saturday and Sunday in each autumn, with days affected by major disruptions, events and closed excluded."
With the Elizabeth line opening you just know Farringdon is going be charging up the charts
Ridership? Is this the first time you have used this term?

dg writes: It’s the 45th.
If TfL are seriously looking at the Bakerloo linento make savings, it doesn't look good for the northern end of the line given those figures for South Kenton and North Wembley. Kenton itself is also very lightly used with an improved Met service from Northwick Park. I reckon were heading back to the days of curtailment at Stonebridge Park, if not Queens Park, with the Overground picking up the slack.
I would suggest that the least used TfL Rail stations on the current list (Iver, Taplow, Acton Main Line) are likely to remain the least used stations on next year's Purple line list. The exception might be Acton Main Line, which could become more attractive when through running to Central London commences.
Clapham North retaining lots of demand seems odd as there’s not a huge amount of leisure destinations there and it’s quite affluent which would imply large amounts of home working. Perhaps it's latent demand that didn’t use the station due to overcrowding.
As they count only those using the Tube at Stratford, do they do the same at Barking? How do they know when we use C2C to West Ham or Upminster rather than the Tube?
There is an error in the TfL spreadsheet, the totals for Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station look like they have been transposed. The daily figures for Nine Elms are lower than for Battersea but the annualised total is higher. This correlates with the Power BI dataset of daily usage - see here
There's definitely something wrong on the Northern Line extension. The spreadsheet does indeed show higher daily totals at Battersea but a higher annual total at Nine Elms.

I've disregarded both and updated the post.
My brain reads Acton Main Line as Action Man Line. I can't be the only one.
> The next 10: Euston, Tottenham Court Road, Bank/Monument, Bond Street, Green Park, Piccadilly Circus, Finsbury Park, Vauxhall, Brixton, North Greenwich

Uhh, North Greenwich? That isn't even in the top 10 busiest stations outside Zone 2.

dg writes: It's in zone 2.
Finsbury Park might click up a bit next year now that it's fully gated.
Further to my previous comment and clarification of count metrics, do West Ham home games count as a series of events and therefore the total excludes all these, and does ABBA Voyage count as a six month event?

Oh, what a confusing web we weave when we first try to be "accurate".
are Clapham North it may be that the resident workers are of the younger age bracket who live in smaller flatshares and have been keenest to get out of their bedrooms to a nice office.










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