Revealed: Britain’s busiest prepare stations in 2023

Whether or not you’re wedged up towards a stranger at Waterloo, packed in like sardines at Paddington or squeezing your method by means of Liverpool Road, everyone knows that London prepare stations get unbearably crowded. Actually it’s simply been revealed by the Workplace for Rail and Street that each single one of many nation’s prime ten busiest stations are within the capital. 

However what about the remainder of the UK’s main rail hubs? Effectively, coming in at quantity 11 and taking the crown because the nation’s busiest non-London station was Birmingham New Road. A whopping 30.7 million entries and exits had been counted on the station between April 2022 and March 2023. 

Leeds adopted behind in twelfth place with 23.9 entries and exits whereas Manchester Piccadilly was shut on its heels with 23.5. The one different non-London hub to look on the listing was Glasgow Central in seventeenth place. 

However these numbers are nothing on the general busiest within the nation, Liverpool Road Station in London, which noticed a whopping 80.4 million entries and exits. Right here’s the highest 20 listing in full: 

1. London Liverpool Road: 80,448,194
2. London Paddington: 59,182,926
3. London Waterloo: 57,789,780
4. London Bridge: 47,657,264
5. London Victoria: 45,563,972
6. Stratford (London): 44,136,784
7. Tottenham Courtroom Street: 34,877,768
8. London St Pancras Worldwide: 33,296,120
9. Farringdon: 31,459,904
10. London Euston: 31,318,408
11. Birmingham New Road: 30,726,280
12. Leeds: 23,964,156
13. Manchester Piccadilly: 23,558,364
14. Whitechapel: 23,307,210
15. London Kings Cross: 23,287,414
16. Clapham Junction: 20,790,150
17. Glasgow Central: 20,767,954
18. Highbury and Islington: 20,601,096
19. Bond Road: 19,400,416
20. East Croydon: 18,514,458

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