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 an Origin Destination Matrix, a comprehensive matrix of rail flows between stations throughout Great Britain in the financial year of 2017–18.[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 the data covers mainland 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) 2017–18	Annual interchanges (millions) 2017–18	Location	Main Services	Number of platforms	Interchange systems	Image
1	London Waterloo	94.345	5.859	London	South Western Main Line West of England Main Line	24 (Platforms 25 and 26 are part of the Underground)	London Underground
2	London Victoria	74.955	6.126	London	Brighton Main Line Chatham Main Line	19	London Underground
3	London Liverpool Street	66.967	3.790	London	Great Eastern Main Line West Anglia Main Line	18	London Underground, London Overground, TfL Rail
4	London Bridge	48.453	7.393	London	South Eastern Main Line Brighton Main Line Thameslink	15	London Underground
5	London Euston	44.746	4.073	London	West Coast Main Line	18	London Underground, London Overground
6	Birmingham New Street	43.741	6.870	Birmingham	West Coast Main Line Cross Country Route	13	West Midlands Metro
7	Stratford	40.077	4.556	London	Great Eastern Main Line Lea Valley Lines	21 (4 and 7 disused, 3A, 4A, 4B, and 10A exist)	London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, London Overground, TfL Rail
8	London Paddington	36.578	2.704	London	Great Western Main Line South Wales Main Line Reading to Plymouth Line	13 (Platforms 15 and 16 are part of the Underground, platform 13 closed)	London Underground, TfL Rail
9	London St Pancras	34.622	4.393	London	Midland Main Line Thameslink Eurostar	15	London Underground
10	London King's Cross	33.905	4.687	London	East Coast Main Line	12 (Starts at 0)	London Underground
11	Glasgow Central	32.916	3.867	Glasgow	West Coast Main Line	17	Glasgow Subway (close by)
12	Leeds	31.108	3.107	Leeds	East Coast Main Line Midland Main Line Cross Country Route	17
13	Highbury and Islington	29.508	5.220	London	North London Line East London Line Northern City Line	8	London Underground, London Overground
14	Clapham Junction	29.444	29.604	London	South Western Main Line West of England Main Line Brighton Main Line	17	London Overground
15	London Charing Cross	28.344	0.833	London	South Eastern Main Line	6	London Underground
16	Manchester Piccadilly	27.724	2.629	Manchester	West Coast Main Line	14	Manchester Metrolink
17	Canada Water	24.997	<0.001	London	East London Line	4	London Underground
18	East Croydon	23.634	6.755	London	Brighton Main Line	6	Croydon Tramlink
19	London Cannon Street	23.447	0.290	London	South Eastern Main Line	7	London Underground
20	Edinburgh Waverley	23.334	1.605	Edinburgh	East Coast Main Line West Coast Main Line	20	Edinburgh Trams
21	Vauxhall	20.619	0.000	London	South Western Main Line	8	London Underground
22	Gatwick Airport	20.328	1.212	Gatwick Airport	Brighton Main Line Gatwick Express	7
23	Wimbledon	18.509	1.151	London	South Western Main Line	10	London Underground, Croydon Tramlink
24	London Fenchurch Street	18.399	0.888	London	London, Tilbury & Southend Line	4
25	Reading	16.980	4.179	Reading	Great Western Main Line	15
26	Brighton	16.929	1.596	Brighton	Brighton Main Line West Coastway Line	8	East Coastway Line
27	London Marylebone	16.693	0.697	London	Chiltern Main Line	6	London Underground
28	Liverpool Central	16.466	0.321	Liverpool	Merseyrail services (Wirral and Northern lines)	3
29	Glasgow Queen Street	16.398	2.189	Glasgow	Glasgow to Edinburgh	9	Glasgow Subway (close by)
30	Liverpool Lime Street	16.032	1.925	Liverpool	West Coast Main Line Liverpool to Manchester Lines	10	Merseyrail Wirral line

Below this, station usage was as follows:

• Whitechapel, Barking, Cardiff Central, Farringdon, Cambridge, Richmond, Bristol Temple Meads, London Blackfriars, Lewisham, West Ham, and Moorgate reported over 10 million passengers.
• A further 55 stations had reported 5 to 10 million passengers
• 464 had reported passengers of 1–5 million
• 328 had reported passengers of 500,001–1 million
• 497 had reported passengers of 200,001–500,000
• 337 had reported passengers of 100,001–200,000
• 261 had reported passengers of 50,001–100,000
• 332 had reported passengers of 10,001–50,000
• 190 had reported passengers of 1,001–10,000
• 49 had reported passengers of 101–1,000
• In 2017–18, five stations: Stanlow & Thornton (92), Teesside Airport (74), Denton (70), Barry Links (52) and Redcar British Steel (40) had reported fewer than 100 passengers.

London terminal

This is a list of the 20 busiest stations in the "London terminals" station group.

Rank	Station	Annual entries/exits (millions) 2017–18	Annual interchanges (millions) 2017–18
1	Waterloo	94.345	5.859
2	Victoria	74.955	6.126
3	Liverpool Street	66.967	3.790
4	London Bridge	48.453	7.393
5	Euston	44.746	4.073
6	Paddington	36.578	2.704
7	St Pancras	34.622	4.393
8	King's Cross	33.905	4.687
9	Charing Cross	28.344	0.833
10	Cannon Street	22.446	0.290
11	Vauxhall	20.619	0
12	Fenchurch Street	18.399	0.888
13	Marylebone	16.693	0.697
14	Farringdon	12.618	0.168
15	Blackfriars	10.802	0.920
16	Moorgate	10.434	0.903
17	Waterloo East	9.931	0.827
18	City Thameslink	6.433	0.016
19	Kensington (Olympia)	4.049	0.004
20	Elephant & Castle	3.172	0.323

Other London stations

This is a list of the 20 busiest stations in Greater London, excluding those listed above under the London termini.

Rank	Station	Annual entries/exits (millions) 2017–18	Annual interchanges (millions) 2017–18
1	Stratford	40.077	4.556
2	Clapham Junction	29.444	26.904
3	Highbury & Islington	29.508	5.220
4	Canada Water	24.997	<0.001
5	East Croydon	23.634	6.755
6	Wimbledon	18.509	1.151
7	Whitechapel	14.442	0.000
8	Barking	13.473	0.701
9	Richmond	11.494	1.634
10	Lewisham	10.713	2.201
11	West Ham	10.553	0.012
12	Surbiton	9.137	0.698
13	Putney	8.799	0.000
14	Romford	8.703	0.732
15	Shoreditch High Street	8.586	0.613
16	Bromley South	8.551	1.050
17	Balham	8.463	0.393
18	Tottenham Hale	8.171	0.366
19	Seven Sisters	8.169	0.032
20	Shepherd's Bush	7.953	0.028

Stations outside London

This is a list of the 20 busiest stations in Great Britain outside London.

Rank	Railway Station	Annual entries/exits (millions) 2017–18	Annual interchanges (millions) 2017–18
1	Birmingham New Street	43.741	6.870
2	Glasgow Central	32.916	3.867
3	Leeds	31.108	3.107
4	Manchester Piccadilly	27.724	2.629
5	Edinburgh Waverley	23.334	1.605
6	Gatwick Airport	20.328	1.212
7	Reading	16.980	4.179
8	Brighton	16.929	1.596
9	Liverpool Central	16.466	0.321
10	Glasgow Queen Street	16.398	2.189
11	Liverpool Lime Street	16.032	1.925
12	Cardiff Central	12.952	1.948
13	Cambridge	11.530	0.551
14	Bristol Temple Meads	11.350	1.477
15	York	9.833	1.142
16	Sheffield	9.667	1.064
17	Stansted Airport	8.934	0.032
18	Newcastle	8.756	0.390
19	Chelmsford	8.619	0.057
20	Manchester Oxford Road	8.558	0.920

See also

• List of busiest London Underground stations
• List of busiest railway stations in Europe
• List of busiest railway stations in North America
• List of busiest railway stations in West Yorkshire

References

1. "Estimates of station usage". Office of Rail and Road. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
2. "Estimates of Station Usage 2017-18" (PDF). Office of Rail and Road. 11 December 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2018.

External links

• Station usage - Main page