The small-town Denton station in Greater Manchester keeps its spot as Britainʼs least-busy rail stop‚ counting just 54 visitors last year (which is about one person per week). Social-media focused trainspotters helped boost these numbers from previous years 34 passengers
The station runs a bare-minimum service — called parliamentary trains: only two trains stop here weekly on Saturday mornings at non-standard times 8:42am and 9:04am. This limited schedule came after 90s re-routing that changed the Manchester-Leeds line
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Other least-used stations in Britain include:
* Shippea Hill (Cambridgeshire) with 70 visitors
* Ince and Elton (Cheshire) having 86 passengers
* Polesworth (Warwickshire) counting 118 people
* Reddish South with just 128 yearly visitors
On the other end London Liverpool Street leads as UKʼs busiest station — 94.5 million visitors used it last year which is up from 80.4 million year before. Other busy London stops include Paddington (66.9 million)‚ Tottenham Court Road (64.2 million) and Waterloo (62.5 million)
The Scottish Inverness Airport station showed biggest growth with 53‚920 visitors (up from 6‚096) while Millbrook in Bedfordshire saw biggest drop to 2‚312 passengers (a bench there honors Captain Sir Tom Moore)
UK rail usage doubled since late 90s: from 1.2 billion station visits to todays 2.8 billion entries and exits nationwide