Busiest stations with only 1 TOC

[imagination]

As a counter to the thread on the stations with the most TOCs (and thought it would be better as a separate thread) - which are the busiest stations served by only one train operating company.

Try to avoid London stations if possible as they are kind of obvious.

Take whatever meaning of the word "busy" you want (most trains, most passengers, largest place served, whatever)

I'll start with Slough - 4.935million passengers in 08/09 according to wikipedia, but only served by FGW.

 

[b0b]

Slough, meh!

Glasgow Queen Street: 19.637 million

 

[First class]

Liverpool Central

19.685 milion, just beating Queen Street

 

[b0b]

Liverpool Central

19.685 milion, just beating Queen Street

dang it!

but you only win because of a travelator between Queen Street and the Underground at Buchanan Street

 

[MCR247]

Waterloo 88.58 million

 

[imagination]

Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 * 0.982 million
2005/06 * 1.294 million
2006/07 * 7.170 million
2007/08 * 8.890 million
2008/09 * 19.685 million

Wow that's some rapid growth...

 

[rail-britain]

Most trains per platform :
Partick / Hyndland

 

[mumrar]

Waterloo 88.58 million

That's in London which the OP said to ignore though

 

[First class]

Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 * 0.982 million
2005/06 * 1.294 million
2006/07 * 7.170 million
2007/08 * 8.890 million
2008/09 * 19.685 million

Wow that's some rapid growth...

In the last figures they included PTE products for the first time which showed the REAL amount of people travelling. Particularly in Merseyside with a very strong PTE, these products account for a very high proportion of revenue.

 

[MCR247]

That's in London which the OP said to ignore though

Sorry didn't see that

 

[me123]

Most trains per platform :
Partick / Hyndland

Is that the busiest section of double track railway in the UK, or just Scotland?

They do have to win it for the busiest mainline platforms, though. Every 4/5 minutes off peak, with quite a few extras during the rush hours. I can't think of anywhere else in the UK with that frequency and only two platforms (metro systems aside).

 

[rail-britain]

Is that the busiest section of double track railway in the UK, or just Scotland?

Nothing else beats it in Scotland, but there are a few in England but many of these don't have a station and those that do not all the trains stop there

Add to that the occasional ECS working through Partick and it works out at about 40 trains per hour (in total)

I remember visiting there once (when I was younger) and managed to see all that days Argyle and North Clyde EMUs in under three hours

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Nothing else beats it in Scotland, but there are a few in England but many of these don't have a station and those that do not all the trains stop there

Such as...?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

The busiest stretch of double track will surely be the two track bottleneck at the up end of London Bridge towards Waterloo East?

 

[b0b]

The busiest stretch of double track will surely be the two track bottleneck at the up end of London Bridge towards Waterloo East?

I was thinking the Thameslink core, but I think you got it.....