Congestion of London Underground stations: from Waterloo to Roding Valley

The London Underground is the oldest subway in the world, having been opened back in 1863. It is one of the largest networks in the world, with a total length of 402 km.

One of the busiest London Underground stations is Waterloo, with 4,837,000 passengers passing through it every year. It is known as one of the busiest stations in the London Underground, writes DailyMail.

With connections to the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern, and Waterloo and City lines, which are shuttle services between Waterloo and Bank city center, thousands of passengers arrive at this station during peak hours.

Tottenham Court Road is another of London's busiest underground stations, with 4,843,000 passengers annually. It is a key interchange with Soho and Oxford Street, which are located nearby.

This station was often congested during peak hours due to narrow aisles and large numbers of passengers. However, the recent opening of the Elizabeth Line has greatly helped to relieve the flow of passengers, creating much more space for the same number of passengers.

Finally, the busiest station in the London Underground is King's Cross St Pancras with 6,383,000 passengers per year. This station is involved in servicing leading routes in the north of England and Edinburgh on the east coast main line. It is also the terminus for trains running to the Midlands and Sheffield, as well as international Eurostar routes to Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris.

But Grange Hill is named in the list of the most underutilized London stations with 669,500 passengers annually. It is located at the eastern end of the Central line, so only three trains run per hour to and from Grange Hill.

Another sparsely populated station is Chigwell, which receives 499,000 passengers per year. Given its location in Essex, close to Woodford, which has a faster route to other Stratford services, it is not surprising that this station is not popular with passengers.

And finally, the most underutilized station on the London Underground was Roding Valley with 368,000 passengers per year. Given these figures, it is not difficult to understand that on average, the station is used by just over 1,000 people every day.