Pandemic rail transport numbers

[marty21]

BBC News - London Stratford emerges as UK's busiest station

London Stratford emerges as UK's busiest station

It was the most used during a year of lockdowns that saw passenger numbers drop 78% due to Covid.

www.bbc.co.uk

Stratford was the busiest station during the 1st year of the Pandemic , which surprised me , but I guess the traditional main line stations such as Paddington & Waterloo weren't needed as much ?

 

[Winot]

BBC News - London Stratford emerges as UK's busiest station

London Stratford emerges as UK's busiest station

It was the most used during a year of lockdowns that saw passenger numbers drop 78% due to Covid.

www.bbc.co.uk

Stratford was the busiest station during the 1st year of the Pandemic , which surprised me , but I guess the traditional main line stations such as Paddington & Waterloo weren't needed as much ?

I’d guess that the people who commute into Paddington and Waterloo are richer and have jobs where they wfh.

 

[Teaboy]

I’d guess that the people who commute into Paddington and Waterloo are richer and have jobs where they wfh.

That and there was no work for them to go to as everything was shut. There was these lock down things you see...

I went to a meeting at Waterloo in December last year just before Christmas. It was a strange meeting because not only was half the station shut and we were wandering around on the tracks but the half that was open had nobody there. Seeing Waterloo like a ghost town was very strange.

 

[VWT2GEL]

Waterloo is / was the busiest station on the network for years and I would say its back to about 75-80% passenger numbers pre pandemic

 

[skyscraper101]

It was a strange meeting because not only was half the station shut and we were wandering around on the tracks but the half that was open had nobody there.

You wandered around on the tracks??

 

[editor]

Surprised to see Highbury so high up the list



And at the other end

 

[marty21]

Surprised to see Highbury so high up the list

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I use that station a lot tbf , but often it's just going through it rather than entering & being included in the stats

 

[editor]

Clapham is still top of the list for interchanges

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/2024/station-usage-2020-21-statistical-release.pdf

 

[marty21]

Big up Hackney Central , figures are probably up as you can now get to Hackney Downs Station via a long walkway .

 

[pbsmooth]

Ah that's how CJ gets its "busiest" station tag. Good spot about Stratford, higher percentage of key/can't wfh workers I'd have thought.

 

[ska invita]

Not busy enough though :

TfL: entire Tube line may have to close and bankruptcy notice issued

TfL commissioner says problems are even more challenging than Crossrail as bumper fares hike looms

www.standard.co.uk

 

[pbsmooth]

I guess that's called playing hardball.

 

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Not busy enough though :

TfL: entire Tube line may have to close and bankruptcy notice issued

TfL commissioner says problems are even more challenging than Crossrail as bumper fares hike looms

www.standard.co.uk

It's starting to kick in elsewhere too. Big service cuts on CrossCountry for starters.