List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain

This is a list of the busiest railway stations in Great Britain on the National Rail network. The figures are collected by the Office of Rail and Road, and are estimates based on ticket usage data use of a Origin Destination Matrix, a comprehensive matrix of rail flows between stations throughout Great Britain in the financial year of 2016–17.^[1] The data count entries and exits at any station. Only tickets sold for National Rail services are included. As such, London Underground, special tours, local light rail and heritage railway tickets are excluded. Note that these data cover Great Britain and surrounding small islands (such as the Isle of Wight), not the United Kingdom, and so exclude tickets within Northern Ireland and Eurostar. There are various further limits to the data due to the variety of ticketing options available on rail services within the UK; these are outlined in full in the report on the data.^[2]

Only the top 30 stations are shown.

List

Rank	Railway Station	Annual entries/exits (millions) 2016–17	Annual interchanges (millions) 2016–17	Location	Main Services	Number of platforms	Interchange systems	Image
1	London Waterloo	99.403	6.105	London	South Western Main Line West of England Main Line	7001240000000000000♠24 (has Platforms 25 and 26)	London Underground
2	London Victoria	75.889	5.734	London	Brighton Main Line Chatham Main Line	7001190000000000000♠19	London Underground
3	London Liverpool Street	67.339	2.745	London	Great Eastern Main Line West Anglia Main Line	7001180000000000000♠18	London Underground, London Overground, TfL Rail
4	London Bridge	47.874	1.987	London	South Eastern Main Line Brighton Main Line Thameslink	7001150000000000000♠15	London Underground
5	London Euston	44.059	3.517	London	West Coast Main Line	7001180000000000000♠18	London Underground, London Overground
6	Birmingham New Street	42.367	5.791	Birmingham	West Coast Main Line Cross Country Route	7001130000000000000♠13	Midland Metro
7	Stratford	42.251	3.873	London	Great Eastern Main Line Lea Valley Lines	7001210000000000000♠21 (4 and 7 disused, 3A, 4A, 4B, and 10A exist)	London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, London Overground, TfL Rail
8	London Paddington	35.836	2.976	London	Great Western Main Line South Wales Main Line Reading to Plymouth Line	7001140000000000000♠14 (Platforms 15 and 16 exist)	London Underground
9	London King's Cross	33.816	3.473	London	East Coast Main Line	7001120000000000000♠12 (starts at 0)	London Underground
10	London St Pancras International	33.492	4.584	London	Midland Main Line Thameslink Eurostar	7001150000000000000♠15	London Underground
11	Glasgow Central	32.060	3.582	Glasgow	West Coast Main Line	7001170000000000000♠17	Glasgow Subway (close by)
12	Leeds	30.943	3.131	Leeds	East Coast Main Line Midland Main Line Cross Country Route	7001170000000000000♠17
13	Clapham Junction	30.681	27.330	London	South Western Main Line West of England Main Line Brighton Main Line	7001170000000000000♠17	London Overground
14	Highbury and Islington	29.853	3.837	London	North London Line East London Line	7000800000000000000♠8	London Underground, London Overground
15	London Charing Cross	29.560	3.003	London	South Eastern Main Line	7000600000000000000♠6	London Underground
16	Manchester Piccadilly	27.807	2.712	Manchester	West Coast Main Line	7001140000000000000♠14	Manchester Metrolink
17	Canada Water	25.016	<0.001	London	East London Line	7000400000000000000♠4	London Underground
18	London Cannon Street	22.660	0.714	London	South Eastern Main Line	7000700000000000000♠7	London Underground
19	East Croydon	22.606	6.522	London	Brighton Main Line	7000600000000000000♠6	Croydon Tramlink
20	Edinburgh Waverley	22.582	6.522	Edinburgh	East Coast Main Line West Coast Main Line	7001200000000000000♠20	Edinburgh Trams
21	Vauxhall	22.483	0.000	London	South Western Main Line	7000800000000000000♠8	London Underground
22	Wimbledon	20.150	1.206	London	South Western Main Line	7001100000000000000♠10	London Underground, Croydon Tramlink
23	Gatwick Airport	19.362	1.188	Gatwick Airport	Brighton Main Line Gatwick Express	7000700000000000000♠7
24	London Fenchurch Street	18.526	1.086	London	London, Tilbury & Southend Line	7000400000000000000♠4
25	Reading	17.122	4.109	Reading	Great Western Main Line	7001150000000000000♠15
26	London Marylebone	16.667	0.637	London	Chiltern Main Line	7000600000000000000♠6	London Underground
27	Liverpool Central	16.035	0.425	Liverpool	Merseyrail services (Wirral and Northern lines)	7000300000000000000♠3
28	Brighton	15.993	1.498	Brighton	Brighton Main Line West Coastway Line	7000800000000000000♠8	East Coastway Line
29	Liverpool Lime Street	15.613	1.104	Liverpool	West Coast Main Line Liverpool to Manchester Lines	7001100000000000000♠10
30	Glasgow Queen Street	20.550	2.070	Glasgow	Glasgow to Edinburgh	7000900000000000000♠9	Glasgow Subway (close by)

Below this, station usage was as follows:

• Whitechapel, Barking, Cardiff Central, Farringdon, Richmond, Cambridge, Bristol Temple Meads, Moorgate, Lewisham, West Ham, London Blackfriars and London Waterloo East reported over 10 million passengers.
• A further 56 stations had reported 5 to 10 million passengers
• 453 had reported passengers of 1–5 million
• 339 had reported passengers of 500,001–1 million
• 494 had reported passengers of 200,001–500,000
• 322 had reported passengers of 100,001–200,000
• 273 had reported passengers of 50,001–100,000
• 332 had reported passengers of 10,001–50,000
• 188 had reported passengers of 1,001–10,000
• 51 had reported passengers of 101–1,000
• In 2016-17, six stations: Reddish South (94), Kildonan (76), Redcar British Steel (50), Breich (48), Teesside Airport (30) and Barry Links (24) had reported fewer than 100 passengers.

London termini

This is a list of the busiest stations in the "London terminals" station group.

Other London stations

This is a list of the busiest stations in Greater London, excluding those listed above under the London termini.

Other stations in Great Britain

This is a list of the busiest stations in Great Britain outside London.

See also

• List of busiest London Underground stations
• List of busiest railway stations in West Yorkshire

References

External links

• Station usage - Main page