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[wellinghall]

There are five train stations in Great Britain with more than 30 million passenger entry / exit movements a year.

London Waterloo, 87.9m
London Victoria, 70.2m
Liverpool Street, 55.1m
London Bridge, 49.7m
London Charing Cross, 36.7m

And there are five stations with fewer than 100 entry / exit movements a year.
Barry Links, 94
Kirton Lindsey, 88
Maidstone Barracks, 70
Denton, 56
Teesside Airport, 44

I clearly need a train icon.

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Teesside Airport 'station' is apparently at least a quarter of an hour's walk from the tiny airport it 'serves' and features precisely two trains a week - one that goes to the station on a Saturday morning and one that departs from the station later in the day.

So you really need to co-ordinate your travel plans very carefully, and be prepared to sleep at the airport for a few days if your flight back touches down on a Sunday.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Nottingham to Lincoln is a bit like that.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I believe it is cheaper for the operator to keep the station "open" than to go through the consultation process necessary to close it.

[sally_maria]

I have steam train icons here, but I'm not sure where you'd find modern ones.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

You can use mine if you like!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Mallard?

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

I don't think so- the livery is wrong. I found the painting on the internet when I searched for Gresley A4 Pacific, but I forgot to make a note of what the painting was called.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ta.

[lynn-maudlin.livejournal.com]

Charing Cross, Waterloo East (where is London Waterloo? Is it a different station from London Waterloo East?) and London Bridge are all on the same line and London Victoria isn't far from it at all - so clearly a massive amount of rail use from southeast (Kent) into London - probably mostly daily commuters, don't you think?

Maidstone Barracks is the only one of the little-used stations I recognize, just because it's also in that southeast/Kent grouping of stations; I spent a lot of time going to Gravesend!

[garamondbophin.livejournal.com]

Waterloo East is next door to London Waterloo (there is a covered footbridge between the two). I think they were built by competing historical railway companies, but don't have time to look for the details right now. The main Waterloo station also gets trains from the South West; London Bridge gets trains from the whole South coast (e.g. Brighton and Southampton), as well as Kent. I use London Bridge for work, Victoria for shopping and change onto the Waterloo line at Clapham Junction for visiting my Mum.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

As you say (except that if I were to use Clapham Junction for visiting my mum, it would be an horrendously complicated route!)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Not only someone who has heard of one of these stations ... but an American who has heard of one of these stations!

[widsidh.livejournal.com]

There actually *is* a Denton?
Is there a Jack Frost living there?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

There's a (different) Denton near my parents'. Confused hell out of me when Frost first came on ...

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

"I clearly need a train icon."

Monorail cat?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

There's no such place as Teesside Airport ;)

(Because...they renamed it. Quite a while ago.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

There isn't a Teesside Airport, but there is a Teesside Airport Station!