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Kings Cross has probably 45 trains per hour to Euston (Northern and Victoria line). It also has a similar number to Farringdon (Thameslink and Met/Circle lines).
Are there any other two stations that can beat this in terms of number of trians per hour between them?
 
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Halsebee said:
Kings Cross has probably 45 trains per hour to Euston (Northern and Victoria line). It also has a similar number to Farringdon (Thameslink and Met/Circle lines).
Are there any other two stations that can beat this in terms of number of trians per hour between them?
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It's more like ~60-odd trains per hour in the peak between Euston and King's Cross. 36tph on the Victoria Line, something like 24tph on the Northern Line.
 
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I believe Waterloo-Clapham Junction is something like 35tph. This must be the record for trains between two National Rail stations.
 
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The most I can think of in Scotland is 23tph, off-peak, from Edinburgh Waverley to Haymarket
 
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Probably in some German city like Köln if you look overseas - there's certainly around a train a minute crossing the Hohenzollernbrücke between Köln Hbf and Köln Messe/Deutz, however not everything stops at Messe.
 
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Liverpool Street and Stratford must be pretty high.

How about non-adjacent stations, like Baker Street and Waterloo, or Bond Street-Stratford? Or Finsbury Park - Green Park, for instance?

But these all use the tube. On NR, Clapham - Waterloo / Victoria must be up there. Or something with London Bridge.
 
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If you allow Waterloo East to be bracketed with Waterloo (and it was all called the latter in my day) then the service provided by South Eastern and the Jubilee Line might be top, although the other contender would be Liverpool Street to Stratford, and once Crossrail ever gets opened then that'd certainly be at the summit I'd have thought.
 
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Kings X - Finsbury Park? 36 Vic, 24 Picc, 4 on the Main Line?

Excluding the tube, it’s Waterloo - Clapham Jn off peak.
 
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Jamesrob637 said:
Probably in some German city like Köln if you look overseas - there's certainly around a train a minute crossing the Hohenzollernbrücke between Köln Hbf and Köln Messe/Deutz, however not everything stops at Messe.
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I wonder how many there are between Brussels Midi and Brussels Central - pretty much every departure at central also goes to Midi

EDIT: There are 47 departures from Brussels Central between 8.01 and 9.01 on a weekday - central isn't a terminus so they'll all go to Midi, but about half will have gone there first, and half will be going there after
 
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In a historical context I would have thought that the Never Stop Railway at the Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924-5 could lift the title. The 88 vehicles, operating in a loop between the North Entrance and South Entrance (with intermediate platforms, I believe) ran at something like 15-second headway’s, so around 240 ‘trains’ per hour in each direction.
 
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I wonder how many there are between Brussels Midi and Brussels Central - pretty much every departure at central also goes to Midi

EDIT: There are 47 departures from Brussels Central between 8.01 and 9.01 on a weekday - central isn't a terminus so they'll all go to Midi, but about half will have gone there first, and half will be going there after
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Good call and it's an ex-hometown of mine albeit in the mid-00s. Mind you, even back then Midi-Central-Nord had a train at least every couple of minutes so it'll be greater now!
 
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If you allow Waterloo East to be bracketed with Waterloo (and it was all called the latter in my day) then the service provided by South Eastern and the Jubilee Line might be top, although the other contender would be Liverpool Street to Stratford, and once Crossrail ever gets opened then that'd certainly be at the summit I'd have thought.
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I think that Waterloo / Waterloo East to Charing Cross has more than your first example with the Bakerloo Line / Northern Line / Southeastern services. I make this 70tph northbound from 8-9AM.

I think that Bond Street to Stratford will have more than your second example by having the Jubilee Line services rather than the Liverpool Street starters which call at Stratford.
 
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And of course Bond Street to Stratford will have Crossrail as well as the Central and Jubilee lines. In the peaks, is that 12+34+32?
 
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In the UK, Outside of London I don't think 26tph between Moorfields and Liverpool Central (in that direction only) can be beaten on national rail.

If tram networks are allowed there are 35 per hour between Deansgate-Castlefield and Cornbrook on Metrolink, which I don't think can be beaten anywhere in the UK for rail vehicles which all use the same track off peak.
 
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Halsebee said:
Kings Cross has probably 45 trains per hour to Euston (Northern and Victoria line). It also has a similar number to Farringdon (Thameslink and Met/Circle lines).
Are there any other two stations that can beat this in terms of number of trians per hour between them?
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But its almost as quick to walk due to the amount of time you spend walking down steps and through corridors to catch the underground. I usually catch the bus when travelling from Euston to St Pancras.
 
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But its almost as quick to walk due to the amount of time you spend walking down steps and through corridors to catch the underground. I usually catch the bus when travelling from Euston to St Pancras.
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It’s definitely quicker to walk between Euston and St P than get then bus!
 
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Both of those will call at Clapham Junction twice, so I assume they aren't including both calls in the total.
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In a way they are. It’s 35 from Clapham direct to Waterloo in the Up direction. Plus 8 from Clapham, via Kingston or Hounslow, back to Clapham and then on to Waterloo.

The 35 includes the 8 from an earlier ‘hour’, but this time on the final leg of their trip into Waterloo.
 
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Between partick and Hyndland must be in with a shout im sure ive read it gets 28tph overall but thats both directions.
 
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Between partick and Hyndland must be in with a shout im sure ive read it gets 28tph overall but thats both directions.
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I just looked at National Rail Enquires and, off-peak, it’s 15tph in one direction. Didn’t check the other direction but presumably it’s the same and so 30tph in total.
 
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