| Elizabeth Line - most used National Rail stations Posted by grahame at 08:22, 6th December 2025 |     |
From Diamond Geezer
Anorak Corner [National Rail edition]
It's time once again for the annual splurge of passenger data from across Britain's railway network, this batch covering the period April 2024 to March 2025.
Everything changed in 2022 when Crossrail opened, firing a purple bombshell that upended former norms and shook up the list of busiest stations. Any interchange between tube and Crossrail counts as entering or exiting a National Rail station so some mighty distortions are skewing the numbers.
The UK's ten busiest National Rail stations (2024/25) (with changes since 2023/24)
1) -- Liverpool Street (98m)
2) ↑2 Waterloo (70.4m)
3) ↓1 Paddington (69.9m)
4) ↓1 Tottenham Court Road (68m)
5) ↑2 London Bridge (55m)
6) -- Victoria (54m)
7) ↓2 Stratford (51m)
8) -- Farringdon (50m)
9) -- Bond Street (43m)
10) -- Euston (40m)
Six of the top 10 are Crossrail stations, the arrival of purple trains having displaced the usual trio of Waterloo, London Bridge and Victoria from the summit. Liverpool Street retains the crown it snatched in 2022, its complement of commuters boosted by through services on the Elizabeth line. With 98 million passengers it's massively ahead of the rest of the pack and I suspect will be the UK's busiest station every year for the foreseeable future.
It's time once again for the annual splurge of passenger data from across Britain's railway network, this batch covering the period April 2024 to March 2025.
Everything changed in 2022 when Crossrail opened, firing a purple bombshell that upended former norms and shook up the list of busiest stations. Any interchange between tube and Crossrail counts as entering or exiting a National Rail station so some mighty distortions are skewing the numbers.
The UK's ten busiest National Rail stations (2024/25) (with changes since 2023/24)
1) -- Liverpool Street (98m)
2) ↑2 Waterloo (70.4m)
3) ↓1 Paddington (69.9m)
4) ↓1 Tottenham Court Road (68m)
5) ↑2 London Bridge (55m)
6) -- Victoria (54m)
7) ↓2 Stratford (51m)
8) -- Farringdon (50m)
9) -- Bond Street (43m)
10) -- Euston (40m)
Six of the top 10 are Crossrail stations, the arrival of purple trains having displaced the usual trio of Waterloo, London Bridge and Victoria from the summit. Liverpool Street retains the crown it snatched in 2022, its complement of commuters boosted by through services on the Elizabeth line. With 98 million passengers it's massively ahead of the rest of the pack and I suspect will be the UK's busiest station every year for the foreseeable future.
| Re: Elizabeth Line - most used National Rail stations Posted by TaplowGreen at 08:46, 6th December 2025 | |
It's been truly transformational.
Take my own station (Taplow!), going from 2 peak trains an hour under GWR to 5 or 6 now, plus a full Sunday service versus nothing at all under the previous incumbents as well as being fully staffed whereas it was at best sporadic in the bad old days.
I only have to travel into the office 2 or 3 times a week these days but it's made the journey immeasurably easier, more comfortable and more robust.
