Waterloo continues to top the list of Britain’s busiest stations with almost 100 million journeys in 2015/16. London dominates in the top 10 busiest stations. Birmingham New Street is the exception, ranking as the country’s seventh busiest station. There has been one ‘new entry’ to the most used stations this year, with Clapham Junction replacing Charing Cross at number 10.
In Scotland, Glasgow Central remains the busiest station with passengers using the station 30 million times in 2015-16 with Edinburgh in second place at over 20 million. In Wales, the busiest station Cardiff Central saw nearly 13 million journeys.
Overall, it was estimated that there were over 2.9 billion entries and exits at all rail stations in Great Britain in 2015-16, an increase of 5% compared to the previous year*. There were also 222 million connections made.
Ten Stations in Great Britain with the highest estimates of entries and exits in 2015-16
| Rank | Station | **2015-16 entries & exits | GB rank 2014-15 |
| 1 | Waterloo | 99,148,388 | 1 |
| 2 | Victoria | 81,151,418 | 2 |
| 3 | Liverpool Street | 66,556,690 | 3 |
| 4 | London Bridge | 53,850,938 | 4 |
| 5 | Euston | 41,677,870 | 6 |
| 6 | Stratford | 41,113,260 | 10 |
| 7 | Birmingham New Street | 39,077,018 | 8 |
| 8 | Paddington | 36,536,074 | 7 |
| 9 | King's Cross | 33,361,696 | 9 |
| 10 | Clapham Junction | 32,282,220 | 14 |