Most of Britain’s busiest stations are stops along London ’s Elizabeth line , the Office of Rail and Road has revealed. Between April 2023 and March 2024, London Liverpool Street handled the highest number of passengers: an estimated 94.5 million travellers entered or left the station – an average of 260,000 per day.
Liverpool Street is a key station on the east-west Elizabeth line as well as the hub for trains to and from East Anglia . The station was also in first place the previous year – and has since seen a one-sixth increase in the number of passengers. Once again, London Paddington was in second place, with 66.
9 million passengers. The station is the terminus for the Great Western Railway, serving South Wales and the West of England . Tottenham Court Road in London’s West End was third with 64.
2 million. The stations on either side on the Elizabeth line, Farringdon and Bond Street, were eighth and ninth respectively. Some rail purists argue that the Elizabeth line severely distorts the figures, because many of the users have simply switched from London Underground services.
The leading station that is not on the Elizabeth line is London Waterloo , with 62.5 million. Until the new cross-capital line opened, it was perennially in first place.
In addition, it was the only station to achieve almost 100 million passengers a year. The 37 per cent slump in passenger numbers – many of them former five-day-a-week commuters – emphasises the big problems facing the .
