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FIGURES SHOW LONDON’S QUIETEST AND BUSIEST TRAIN STATIONS
OFFICIAL figures have revealed which of London’s stations are the busiest - but also least used.
London stations make up nine of the top ten most used in Britain - with only Birmingham New Street coming anywhere close to being as hectic.
Analysis carried out for the Office of Road and Rail reveals where in the capital you’re most likely to be consumed in a crowd that feels fully cattle class.
However jaded commuters might be more interested in finding a station where there is a bit of peace and quiet.
One station that doesn’t make the list of London’s busiest is Clapham Junction, despite signs there that proclaim it as the busiest around.
That’s because Clapham Junction had the most interchanges, but not ‘entries and exits’ which is what the Office of Rail and Road use to calculate busyness.
Almost 30 million people changed trains at the South London station but Clapham Junction also had the most delayed trains for the first nine months of 2018, with 54 per cent delayed or cancelled, according to a Which? report.
It’s important to note that as the UK doesn’t have gates at every single train station, the boffins behind the list of the busiest and quietest stations do have to make some educated estimations.
But in London the figures should be pretty accurate, thanks to Oyster readers.
So do you regularly use one of the city’s most packed stations? And is a hidden gem of a quiet station just around the corner from you?
- Highbury & Islington 29, 507, 772 entries and exits
- King’s Cross 33, 904, 758 entries and exits
- St Pancras 34, 622, 178 entries and exits
- Paddington 36, 578, 292 entries and exits
- Stratford 40, 077, 086 entries and exits
- Euston 44, 754, 816 entries and exits
- London Bridge 48, 453, 496 entries and exits
- Liverpool Street 66, 966, 512 entries and exits
- Victoria 74, 955, 332 entries and exits
- Waterloo 94, 355,000 entries and exits - Belmont 40,016 entries and exits
- Woodgrange Park 37,932 entries and exits
- Crews Hill 35,344 entries and exits
- South Merton 34,256 entries and exits
- Birkbeck 26,318 entries and exits
- Sudbury Hill Harrow 25,442 entries and exits
- Morden South 22,488 entries and exits
- South Greenford 19,388 entries and exits
- Angel Road 13,300 entries and exits
- Sudbury & Harrow Road 11,900 entries and exits