2022-23 National Rail station usage statistics

[Chris M]

The 2022-23 National Rail station usage statistics have been released, and the Elizabeth line has made a big impact with Liverpool Street and Paddington knocking Waterloo down to third place.


Canary Wharf is the busiest station with only Elizabeth line services (9.9 million, 10th busiest Elizabeth line station, 38th busiest in the country).
Iver is the least used Elizabeth line station (85 thousand, 1088th busiest in the country; 2575 stations are ranked)

The busiest station with London Overground services but no other TfL modes is Clapham Junction (20.8m, 16th busiest)
The busiest station with only London Overground services is Shoreditch High Street (7.1m, 53rd)
The least used station served by London Overground is Emerson Park (240k, 1,149th).

The least used National Rail station also served by TfL is Greenford (126k, 1,503rd).
The least used National Rail station in London is Drayton Green (2k, 2,251st)

[croxleyn]

diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/ did an exhaustive analysis of this versus last year's usage yesterday (Friday, December 15, 2023)

[etr220]

The spreadsheet of station usage includes the "Main origin or destination station", and number of such journeys, for each station. The highest figure for Liverpool St is to/from Tottenham Court Road (highest 'NR' flow); and highest flow to/from Paddington is also to Tottenham Court Road.