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Seven Highland railway stations are among the 20 least used in the whole of the UK, new figures have revealed.
(Permalink) ORR Station Statistics |
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The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has today revealed that London Liverpool Street has replaced London Waterloo as the most used railway station in Great Britain. The opening of the Elizabeth line was a principal contributing factor in the almost 80.4 million entries and exits to Liverpool Street between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023, an increase of around 50 million.
(Permalink) Elizabeth Line ORR Station Statistics |
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A pair of railway stations in Caithness and Sutherland are among the 10 least used in the whole of Great Britain, new figures have revealed.
(Permalink) ORR Station Statistics |
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The least-used railway station in Britain saw only 40 journeys in a year. There are no ticket-buying facilities, toilets or waiting room at Elton and Orston in rural Nottinghamshire.
(Permalink) Elton and Orston ORR Station Statistics  Elton and Orston: The view west to Nottingham at Elton and Orston. The station is located on the Nottingham to Grantham/Sleaford line. Facilities include platforms (the eastbound being considerably longer), waiting she ...  Elton and Orston: The view east at Elton and Orston showing the crossing between the platforms. There was a goods yard on the right hand side and a signal box on the left. The main station building, long gone, was on t ... |
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Passenger numbers at Scotland's busiest station bounced back in the year to March as Covid restrictions eased but they remained at less than half of pre-pandemic levels, new figures showed.
(Permalink) COVID-19 Glasgow Central ORR Scotscalder Station statistics  Scotscalder: Final preparations are being made for the trial of a request-stop kiosk at Scotscalder on the Far North Line. The new equipment at Scotscalder will go live on trial from 15 August 2022.  Glasgow Central: The large, open, bright and airy space of the Glasgow Central concourse. |
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London Waterloo is top of the stops again, but overall numbers are down on pre-pandemic levels. London Waterloo regained its status as the most used railway station although its total number of passenger entries and exits is less than half of the number from two years ago (April 2019 to March 2020). The numbers are revealed in the Office of Rail and Roads (ORR) estimates of station usage statistics for the year April 2021 to March 2022, which include the annual total of passenger entries and exits at each of the 2,570 stations in Britain. After a 16-year reign, London Waterloo was knocked off the top by Stratford (London) last year (April 2020 to March 2021), but it finds itself back in pole position following 41.4 million passenger entries and exits in the latest year (April 2021 and March 2022). However, that total is some way short of the estimate of 86.9 million from two years ago.
(Permalink) Elton and Orston London Waterloo ORR Station statistics  Waterloo: View south east over Waterloo Station in August 2009 from the London Eye.  Waterloo: Part of the concourse at Waterloo in July 2005 showing the pedestrian link to Waterloo East station. |
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The most used station served over 40 million passengers. The least used only recorded 40.
(Permalink) Elton and Orston London Waterloo ORR Station statistics |
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Rail passenger numbers in the far north are still substantially lower than prior to the pandemic - despite a big bounce since the height of lockdown.
(Permalink) Far North Line ORR Station statistics |
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Glasgow Central remains the busiest station in Scotland with almost 33 million passenger entries and exits in the last year, figures published today by the Office of Rail and Road reveal.
Edinburgh (23,087,646), Glasgow Queen Street (16,685,760), Paisley Gilmour Street (3,903,776) and Haymarket (2,980,386) stations made up the remainder of the top five most used stations in Scotland. [Railscot note: ORR comments that the reference period for the estimates runs from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020. The ORR has also provided data for 1 April 2019 to February 2020.] (Permalink) Glasgow CentralEdinburgh Waverley Glasgow Queen Street Haymarket ORR Office of Rail and Road Paisley Gilmour Street Station statistics  Edinburgh Waverley: Plenty of takers for the 0752 LNER Aberdeen - Kings Cross HST, seen here arriving at Waverley platform 19 on 21 November 2019.  Glasgow Central: The large, open, bright and airy space of the Glasgow Central concourse.  Glasgow Queen Street High Level: Passengers arriving at Queen Street Station on 24th September 2019, presented with a view of Glasgow's fine architecture through the new facade.
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Britain's least used railway station has been revealed as Berney Arms in Norfolk, which served just 42 passengers last year.The station, a request stop consisting of one short platform, a name plate and a tiny wooden shelter, is 30 minutes along a single-track line from Norwich to Great Yarmouth, and named after a local pub that closed several years ago. Situated in protected marshland near the River Yare and some way from the nearest main road, it is normally only accessible on foot.
(Permalink) Berney Arms ORR Office of Rail and Road Station statistics  Berney Arms: One of the most remote stations in England has to be Berney Arms on the former Yarmouth & Norwich line in the midst of the Norfolk Broads. The short-platform request stop has no road access and is oth ... |
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Glasgow Central remains Scotland's busiest railway station with almost 33 million passenger entries and exits in the last year, according to figures from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).
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