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Trivia: Destinations per Departing Trains

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OK so I've not seen this one on here before: which station has the most destinations - by which I mean locations at which services terminate - per the number of trains which depart the station.

For example: Newcastle has 206 services that leave it today, and 31 different destinations. That is, 0.15 destinations per departing trains (D/DT)! Stourbridge Town has 107 services leaving and 1 destination, that is, 0.009 D/DT.

It's quite easy to look at this by station. Just:
* go to Realtime Trains, select a random midweek day for a station, 0000-2359 and 'passenger calls' only
* copy all into Excel (may need to paste as text) and sort by destination
* delete 'terminates here' and you have the number of departing trains
* click the data tab and chose 'Advanced' in Sort&Filter
* there's then the option to filter 'unique records only'. That gives you your number of destinations

I'm sure Newcastle's not got the most, I just picked as a local station to me. But which station can we find with the most D/DT?!
 
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Leeds has 43 if I've done it right:

Aberdeen
Birmingham New Street
Bradford Forster Square
Bristol Temple Meads
Carlisle
Castleford
Doncaster
Dundee
Edinburgh
Glasgow Central
Goole
Halifax
Harrogate
Hebden Bridge
Heysham Harbour
Horsforth
Huddersfield
Hull
Ilkley
Knaresborough**
Knottingley
Liverpool Lime Street
London Kings Cross
Manchester Airport
Manchester Oxford Road
Manchester Piccadilly
Manchester Victoria
Middlesbrough
Morecambe
Newcastle
Nottingham
Penzance
Plymouth
Preston
Reading
Ribblehead
Scarborough
Selby
Sheffield
Skipton
Southampton Central
St Pancras International
York

** No doubt most, if not all of these run through to York
 
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53703 said:
Leeds has 43 if I've done it right:

Aberdeen
Birmingham New Street
Bradford Forster Square
Bristol Temple Meads
Carlisle
Castleford
Doncaster
Dundee
Edinburgh
Glasgow Central
Goole
Halifax
Harrogate
Hebden Bridge
Heysham Harbour
Horsforth
Huddersfield
Hull
Ilkley
Knaresborough**
Knottingley
Liverpool Lime Street
London Kings Cross
Manchester Airport
Manchester Oxford Road
Manchester Piccadilly
Manchester Victoria
Middlesbrough
Morecambe
Newcastle
Nottingham
Penzance
Plymouth
Preston
Reading
Ribblehead
Scarborough
Selby
Sheffield
Skipton
Southampton Central
St Pancras International
York

** No doubt most, if not all of these run through to York
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44 with Ribblehead. (1919, train 2H98)
 
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53703 said:
Leeds has 43 if I've done it right:
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I actually count 45 via Excel (+Ribblehead and Blackpool North until May; the Blackpool services will then be terminating at Preston I believe but it will also gain 1 a day to Barrow at that point). But my question is not about total destinations, but about that number divided by the number of trains which leave a station during a day. So Leeds has 597 trains leave it every day, giving it 0.0754 D/DT

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I imagine Manchester Piccadilly, Birmingham New Street and Clapham Junction are also fairly high.
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Perhaps for total number of destinations but are they in my patented D/DT measurement?

I suppose what I'm getting at here are the stations that could be said to have the widest variation of destinations, given their number of services, rather than necessarily the absolute largest number. It's actually likely to be a smaller station eg, picking one at random: Kent's Bank has 32 services leaving per day, to 6 destinations: that's 0.1875 D/DT.
 
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To be pedantic I wouldn’t say ‘most’ Knaresborough services run through to York. And those that do tend to be ECS for a variety of reasons (no thru gangway to change ends etc).
 
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I thought I'd got a good one with Kyle of Lochalsh, which has 4 departures to 2 destinations (3 x Inverness, 1 x Elgin) and so scores 0.5
 
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Acklington, Pegswood and Widdrington all have three trains a day to three different destinations (Chathill, Newcastle and Hexham). (D/DT = 1)

Monifieth has seven trains a day to six different destinations (Inverness, Dundee, Edinburgh x2, Arbroath, Carnoustie and Aberdeen). (D/DT = 0.86)

If we impose a limit of at least 30 trains a day (which is roughly 1 an hour each way), the top scorers are

Dunbar 12/32 = 0.375
Ruabon / Gobowen / Chirk 14/38 = 0.368
Alnmouth 14/38 = 0.368
Frome 14/39 - 0.359
Gleneagles 11/31 = 0.355
Wem 10/30 = 0.333
Lapworth 10/31 = 0.323
Castle Cary 14/44 = 0.318

Looking at stations with over 100 trains per day we have

Bath Spa 24/150 = 0.160
Filton Abbey Wood 22/138 = 0.159
Hereford 17/107 = 0.159
Trowbridge 16/103 = 0.155
Worcester Shrub Hill 17/110 = 0.155


At the other end of the table, Harold Wood and Brentwood have 222 trains a day, all of which go to Liverpool Street or Shenfield. (D/DT = 0.009). Many other Overground, TfL Rail and c2c stations also score very low.
 
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greatkingrat said:
Acklington, Pegswood and Widdrington all have three trains a day to three different destinations (Chathill, Newcastle and Hexham). (D/DT = 1)

Monifieth has seven trains a day to six different destinations (Inverness, Dundee, Edinburgh x2, Arbroath, Carnoustie and Aberdeen). (D/DT = 0.86)

If we impose a limit of at least 30 trains a day (which is roughly 1 an hour each way), the top scorers are

Dunbar 12/32 = 0.375
Ruabon / Gobowen / Chirk 14/38 = 0.368
Alnmouth 14/38 = 0.368
Frome 14/39 - 0.359
Gleneagles 11/31 = 0.355
Wem 10/30 = 0.333
Lapworth 10/31 = 0.323
Castle Cary 14/44 = 0.318

Looking at stations with over 100 trains per day we have

Bath Spa 24/150 = 0.160
Filton Abbey Wood 22/138 = 0.159
Hereford 17/107 = 0.159
Trowbridge 16/103 = 0.155
Worcester Shrub Hill 17/110 = 0.155


At the other end of the table, Harold Wood and Brentwood have 222 trains a day, all of which go to Liverpool Street or Shenfield. (D/DT = 0.009). Many other Overground, TfL Rail and c2c stations also score very low.
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Wow, did you do that manually or some kind of trawl through the timetable data?

It also shows how much more 'random' GWR services are than others; much less clockface.
 
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If I've done it right, Manchester Piccadilly has 54 both before and after the timetable changes although there are a few changes:

Out: Bolton, Clitheroe, Kirkby, Manchester Oxford Road, Salford Crescent & Warrington Central.

In: Buckshaw Parkway, Chinley, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Leeds & Manchester Victoria
 
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So over a week Reddish South and Denton get a seventh of a train per day to one terminus.
 
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greatkingrat said:
At the other end of the table, Harold Wood and Brentwood have 222 trains a day, all of which go to Liverpool Street or Shenfield. (D/DT = 0.009). Many other Overground, TfL Rail and c2c stations also score very low.
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Nice work! That's not quite the end of the table, though. Wallasey Village (as an example) had 120 trains on Wednesday, all going to New Brighton*. That gives a D/DT of 0.0083.

The other stations on the New Brighton an West Kirby branches of the Wirral Line are pretty similar, although a single Chester-Birkenhead North train takes the stations south of there out of the running. Birkenhead North itself had 238 departures to 2 termini, so its number is only a little higher.

* The platform announcements in Wallasey say some trains are going to Liverpool Central, but the ones on the train switch back to New Brighton before you get there.
 
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If it's not a station "at which services terminate", then I'm afraid it doesn't count for the original question in this thread.
 
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