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Interesting to see Glasgow Queen Street up there with the busiest, as the station is quite a bit smaller than others named. Mind you, when I was there last year with the bike, passengers were standing shoulder to shoulder waiting for trains - not helped by the usual Glasgow experience of not being allowed on the train till the last possible second. Is this taken into account in the calculation of busy-ness I wonder.
Liverpool Central has only three platforms - two on the Northern line and one on the Wirral line, and it can be dangerously crowded.
Berney Arms was closed from October 2018 to February 2020 as part of the resignalling of the Wherry Lines, so it did well to achieve 42 passengers in about 3 weeks before "lockdown".
The line through Berney Arms was closed from Oct 2018 to 24th Feb 2020, so no surprise it plummeted this year. 42 passengers in the remaining 37 days is actually quite good considering!
Always fascinating.
I'm surprised South Hampstead is that high actually, and also surprised that Stamford Hill isn't busier as it's not as if it's empty between Stoke Newington and Seven Sisters
Biggest increase is Breich (645%) following introduction of a regular service, the Barry Links (423%) and Golf Street (423% and 244%)
Despite closing nine months into the period, Redcar British Steel managed a 194% increase.

Biggest drop is Berney Arms (91%) for reasons discussed above, followed by Angel Road (84%), which is consistent with it only being open for the first two months of the period) and Spooner Row (80%)
As one of Sugar Loaf's users last year I can highly recommend a visit - if you like solitude and beautiful scenery - once things return to some sort of normality.

If these statistics were actually measured by counting each passenger in real time I'd be 3 of them, having got off a train at Sugar Loaf and walked over the hills to the next station, then as there was still some time till my southbound train I caught a northbound one back to Sugar Loaf to wait there for it.
Just checked the Hammersmith Bridge effect on these stats. Barnes up more than 6% and Barnes Bridge up over 10% with Mortlake also up. All possible alternatives for travellers via the closed bridge. Next stations along - Putney, Chiswick and North Sheen - all down no doubt due like Waterloo to the SWR industrial action.
The Goblin line stations weren't helped by yet another closure following the freight train derailment, when was the last time it managed a full year of uninterrupted operation.

Stamford Hill - those living north of the station aren't that far from the far more frequent Victoria Line at Seven Sisters, also it takes around 20 minutes to reach Liverpool Street, after 20 minutes on a Victoria Line train from Seven Sisters you'd be near Vauxhall.
Right then. Trip to Berney Arms, anyone?
The figures for season ticket use at the least busy stations are curious, e.g. 4 at Buckenham. The FAQ says that they credit 45 for a monthly season and 480 for an annual season, so 4 is a fraction of a weekly season.

DG: you've listed Cambridge twice in "other stations outside London to exceed 10 million passengers".
It's not Anorak Corner unless I make a cut and paste error. Fixed thanks.
Tranks DG, fascinating as ever.
Re the Glasgow Queen Street comment...
Queen Street has 9 platforms (7 high level and two lower level), with more than one entrance / exit. Brighton has 8 and Gatwick only 7 platforms. Gatwick is the one squeezing a quart into a pint pot, especially as it has a single crowded entrance / exit.
Re Edinburgh; it has two main line stations, Waverley & Haymarket. Has the data for both been combined for the Edinburgh total or is it just for Waverley?

dg writes: No totals are combined.
Perhaps a moot point currently but Gatwick station is now undergoing a redevelopment to massively enlarge its capacity.
To msjs: There is only one station called Edinburgh. It's the one "everybody" knows by its unofficial (and formerly official) name "Waverley".

Re the growth at Romford: Has the service really improved, pre Crossrail? Are there any more trains to generate additional passengers? Or is the improvement (so far) just longer and better trains attracting some more passengers? I wonder if the increase is perhaps due to weekend closures of part of the line, meaning that Romford has sometimes been a temporary terminus, with an abnormally high entrance / exit count on those occasions.
One could argue that IBM station (on the Glasgow to Wemyss Bay line) is the least used station, with zero passengers. That's because although it is not officially closed, no trains are scheduled to call at the moment and there is no public access. Services should resume when the adjacent land is redeveloped.
IBM was in last year's figures but the Office of Rail and Road haven't included it in their spreadsheet this year, so it isn't the least used station.










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