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Been looking forward to these later, please do you have the busiest non London Overground/non TFL Rail/non TFL concession related stations that are not termini stations?

I presume given the scarcity of non termini stations in zone 1/2 that it would only be stations like Waterloo East, as the other zone 1 non termini stations are some of the quietest--Battersea Park, South Bermondsey, etc.

dg writes: Last year 1) Surbiton, 2) Putney 3) Bromley South. This year, probably irrelevant.

Jonathan | 25.11.21 - 8:08 a.m. | #

Thanksgiving for nerds.

Still Anon | 25.11.21 - 8:19 a.m. | #

Also Thanksgiving.

Nerd | 25.11.21 - 8:31 a.m. | #

Thank you.

I thought Bromley South, my station twice a day, might be up in the top ten, didn't think that high though. During lockdown it did feel more like Bromley North (I am frontline public sector, so very rarely able to work from home). I was often one of only a handful of people on the platform/train.

Jonathan | 25.11.21 - 8:39 a.m. | #

Let's hope these figures aren't used to justify more cuts to public spending.

They don't need much of an excuse.

Simon | Homepage | 25.11.21 - 11:32 a.m. | #

Only eleven stations showed any increase at all on last year

Horden (Co Durham) 33,038/0 (opened Jun 2020)
Kintore (Aberdeenshire) 8,474/0 (station opened Oct 2020)
Bow Street (Cardiganshire) 306/0 (station opened Feb 2021)

Berney Arms (729% increase)
Connel Ferry (102%)
Dalmally (99%)
Havenhouse (93%)
Taynuilt (90%)
Dove Holes (27%)
Worcestershire Parkway (27%)
Salhouse (17%)

Berney Arms attracted interest as the least used last year (and was closed for most of it).
Havenhouse is another little-used station (the least used in Lincolnshire).
Taynuilt had the biggest absolute increase from a non-zero start.
Worcestershire Parkway opened in February 2020, so this is its first full year statistics.
Four are due to new school services being put on the Buxton and Oban lines.

Timbo | 25.11.21 - 11:47 a.m. | #

Amused to see the famous avgeek vlogger referred to as “a reader”.

Kirk | 25.11.21 - 12:38 p.m. | #

Strange that Okehampton had six users, given that it had no trains at all during the period in question.

Biggest proportional drop in the country (other than those scoring no users at all) is Heathrow Terminal 4 (99.991%).

Timbo | 25.11.21 - 2:09 p.m. | #

So the sole international service does not bother to stop at the busiest national station.

dg writes: ...nor does it pass through.

kev | 25.11.21 - 2:51 p.m. | #

I would guess in the case of Okehampton it likely still existed in the ticket database so maybe people buying tickets as a souvenier and not intending to travel?

Jon Combe | 25.11.21 - 7:15 p.m. | #

Berney Arms, the UK's 'quietest' station, was positively humming last year with users increasing from 42 to 348.

JohnC | 25.11.21 - 8:06 p.m. | #

We all saw the impact of working from home but these figures are remarkable. Thanks for compiling them.

Darren | 25.11.21 - 11:24 p.m. | #











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