Date: 06/12/2016

An East Cambridgeshire rail station has been named the least used in the country for the second year in a row, with just 12 people using it throughout the whole of last year. Estimates from the Office for Rail and Road show that a dozen passengers boarded or exited a train at Shippea Hill station throughout 2015/16 - one a month. This was the smallest number of passengers for any station in the country last year with the number of people arriving at or departing from the station decreasing compared to 2014/15, down from 22. [From Mark Bartlett]

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Britain's most and least used train stations revealed, with one getting just 12 passengers a year

Telegraph

An East Cambridgeshire rail station has been named the least used in the country for the second year in a row, with just 12 people using it throughout the whole of last year.

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'Your continued support is much appreciated...' The heavily buttressed signal box at Shippea Hill, between Ely and Norwich, about to be passed by a westbound HST in the summer of 1997. Shippea Hill stands in a totally flat Fen landscape a considerable distance from any substantial settlement and sees very low passenger numbers. There is nothing remotely resembling a hill anywhere near here.
Location: Shippea Hill
Company: Eastern Counties Railway
23/06/1997 Ian Dinmore

First station after leaving the Severn Tunnel on the Cardiff - Bristol route is Pilning, seen here with a PW squad giving way to a 158 on 17 August 2007.
Location: Pilning
Company: Severn Tunnel (Great Western Railway)
17/08/2007 Peter Todd

An exceptionally hot day at Barry Links looking south in August 2006 with an Aberdeen bound express service on the level crossing. The up platform was part of an island with the south side once used by troop trains serving the nearby MoD Barry Buddon training camp. The station currently sees one stopping train in each direction on weekdays.
Location: Barry Links
Company: Dundee and Arbroath Railway
13/08/2006 John Furnevel