Trivia: Number of stations directly served from a single station...

[petermiller36]

Apologies if this is covered elsewhere. It's a massive (excellent) forum and I've used the search function but not really found anything to cover it.

Firstly, does anyone know which station is the most "networked" on the network? ie from which station can you get to the most other stations with just one trip?

Secondly, is there a quick and easy way of finding out the total number of stations reachable for each station?

This would all be based on a regular Monday to Friday timetable.

Thanks.

 

[Kite159]

Birmingham New Street will probably feature quite high

 

[Schweir]

Good question.

Clapham Junction?

 

[GW43125]

I suspect Edinburgh Waverley wouldn't be a bad shot.

 

[londonmidland]

Birmingham New Street.

As it has direct trains going to the North West, North East, Midlands (East & West), East, South, South West, West, South Wales, West Wales, & North Wales.

 

[Iskra]

This has come up before and Birmingham New Street was the clear winner. Leeds was high too.

I'd guess Reading and Cardiff could be 'up there'.

 

[cle]

My first thought was Clapham Junction - basically all of the Southern and SWT networks. London Bridge similarly must feature a lot.

Key here are suburban networks rather than spread. B'ham New St has both though. But is diluted a bit by Snow Hill. Liverpool and Manchester's are quite split. Cardiff is a decent shout too. Places like Bristol, Brighton and Southampton have some of these appalling Wessex/South Coast stoppers.

The Glasgow stations, through their high and low levels, could be a solid bet here too.

 

[xotGD]

I was thinking about which principal destinations are not served directly from New St. Norwich, Huddersfield, Sunderland and Middlesbrough came to mind.

 

[Iskra]

I was thinking about which principal destinations are not served directly from New St. Norwich, Huddersfield, Sunderland and Middlesbrough came to mind.

Inverness, Swansea, Brighton, Ipswich, Portsmouth, Bolton, Blackburn, Bradford, Swindon, Hull.

 

[greatkingrat]

Based on the weekday timetable I get the following figures

Clapham Junction - 365
Manchester Piccadilly - 335
Birmingham New Street - 251
Glasgow Central (HL+LL) - 242
Cardiff Central - 238
London Victoria - 237
London Bridge - 237
Edinburgh Waverley - 233
Leeds - 221

London Bridge will be third once Thameslink trains start running through again.

 

[Deafdoggie]

I have 209 for Crewe, 210 if you include Polesworth!

 

[petermiller36]

Based on the weekday timetable I get the following figures

Clapham Junction - 365
Manchester Piccadilly - 335
Birmingham New Street - 251
Glasgow Central (HL+LL) - 242
Cardiff Central - 238
London Victoria - 237
London Bridge - 237
Edinburgh Waverley - 233
Leeds - 221

London Bridge will be third once Thameslink trains start running through again.

Is that just with pen and paper? Or is there a fancy way of doing it?

 

[cle]

Could Waterloo and Waterloo East count as one?

 

[Harbouring]

I think the thing that holds New Street back is a lot of the trains to further away destinations are expresses whereas Clapham Junction serves stations from Exeter east to Ore and almost everything in between with a mix of fast and slow trains. Even the small stations on the south hampshire locals and Havant to Chichester get a few services to London that stop at Clapham Jn.

 

[bnsf734]

I have 209 for Crewe, 210 if you include Polesworth!

How do you get from Crewe to Polesworth? Polesworth to Crewe is possible.

 

[SquireBev]

At the other end of the scale you've got Stourbridge Town, which has services to Stourbridge Junction and that's it. No intermediate stops.

Are there any other stations that serve only one other?

 

[route101]

Glasgow would be up there , you cant get to Bath but you can arrive .

 

[Deafdoggie]

How do you get from Crewe to Polesworth? Polesworth to Crewe is possible.

That is why I didn't include it!

 

[cuccir]

At the other end of the scale you've got Stourbridge Town, which has services to Stourbridge Junction and that's it. No intermediate stops.

Are there any other stations that serve only one other?

I don't think so, though the new Kenilworth station will be coming close as it will have services to just two stations (Coventry, Leamington Spa)

 

[twpsaesneg]

At the other end of the scale you've got Stourbridge Town, which has services to Stourbridge Junction and that's it. No intermediate stops.

Are there any other stations that serve only one other?

Cardiff Bay - although you can arrive there from stations from Coryton once a day.

 

[Fawkes Cat]

At the other end of the scale you've got Stourbridge Town, which has services to Stourbridge Junction and that's it. No intermediate stops.

Are there any other stations that serve only one other?

And Windsor and Eton Central: I think there are quite a number of examples of one station branch lines - and quite a number of those are operated as a shuttle from their mainline station.

 

[Harbouring]

Lymington town and Pier only have each other and Brockenhurst so 2 each

 

[petermiller36]

Based on the weekday timetable I get the following figures

Clapham Junction - 365
Manchester Piccadilly - 335
Birmingham New Street - 251
Glasgow Central (HL+LL) - 242
Cardiff Central - 238
London Victoria - 237
London Bridge - 237
Edinburgh Waverley - 233
Leeds - 221

London Bridge will be third once Thameslink trains start running through again.

I got 270 for BHM. But that's still some way behind the top 2!

 

[Mutant Lemming]

Does the Manchester Piccadilly figure include Metrolink ?