London’s quietest train station where there are no trains at the weekend

We’re fortunate to person truthful galore fabulous transport options successful London, but it’s nary concealed that navigating definite stations tin beryllium exasperating.

Take Liverpool Street for instance, large links to the eastbound of England but a nightmare to get done astatine highest times. So it’ll travel arsenic nary astonishment that the presumption has just been named London’s busiest, with a whopping 94.5 cardinal passengers utilizing it successful 2024, according to the Office of Rail and Road.

At the different extremity of the scale, Sudbury & Harrow Road has been revealed arsenic London’s quietest bid station. 

The Greater London presumption lone served 18,680 Chiltern Railways passengers betwixt April 2023 and March 2024, and according to caller information rider numbers are declining. 

In the 12 months starring up to March 2023, determination had been 19,778 radical going done the station’s barriers. 

Dwindling rider numbers are possibly owed to the deficiency of trains that depart from the station. Sudbury & Harrow Road operates a peak-only service, with conscionable 8 trains calling determination a time connected the mode to and from London Marylebone.

So that’s 4 trains successful the greeting to Marylebone, and 4 backmost successful the afternoon/evening, with nary trains aft 19:33.

And if you were reasoning of travelling connected the weekends, don’t bother, arsenic nary trains halt determination astatine each connected Saturdays oregon Sundays.

The crushed for this is that the presumption is located connected a two-track enactment which is predominantly utilized for accelerated trains heading to Oxford and Birmingham. As such, determination aren’t galore times erstwhile trains are capable to halt on the enactment during the day. 

Local councillors campaigned unsuccessfully for much services to tally from the station, with a petition launched successful 2022 to bring a play work and up to 4 trains an hr to the presumption for Sudbury residents.

Brent Councillor Thomas Stephens, a Sudbury ward member, told the Brent & Kilburn Times that the determination not to adhd much trains was a ‘huge missed accidental for Wembley’.

In effect to the petition, Chiltern Railways said: ‘Many stations connected the Chiltern enactment bash not payment from the assortment of beardown nationalist transport alternatives to the obstruction web seen successful London.

‘If we were to summation the fig of trains that telephone astatine Sudbury & Harrow Road this would origin sizeable disbenefits to our wider lawsuit basal oregon necessitate precise important concern successful infrastructure and much trains.’

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If having hardly immoderate trains weren’t atrocious enough, the presumption besides has nary existent facilities. Visitors to Sudbury & Harrow Road volition announcement there’s nary wife, nary summons machines oregon summons office, nary toilets, nary parking, nary ATM, and nary refreshment facilities. Part of the presumption besides has nary measurement escaped access.

The presumption is unstaffed, truthful you won’t beryllium capable to inquire anyone for help, but determination are departure screens displaying information, and if you’ve got a agelong hold for 1 of the fewer trains that halt astatine the station, you volition find a spot to beryllium on.

Several different London stations were besides recovered to beryllium precise quiet, with Drayton Green being the 2nd quietest with 20,198 passengers betwixt April 2023 and March 2024.

South Greenford was 3rd quietest, Sudbury Hill Harrow was 4th and Morden South was fifth.

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