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Busiest Tube, Overground and DLR stations revealed

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The pigeons also flock to Tottenham Court Road station

Tottenham Court Road is the busiest London Underground station, new figures from Transport for London (TfL) show.

A total of 63.4m people used the Northern and Central line station, which also connects to the Elizabeth line, in 2025. The least used station is Roding Valley on the Central line in Essex.

Bond Street (42.4m) is the busiest Elizabeth line stop, Canary Wharf is the most popular on the DLR with 6.1m passengers, and Shepherd's Bush leads the way on London Overground with 6.7m users.

Alex Williams, TfL's chief customer and strategy officer, said: "We continue to deliver a range of measures and improvements across our Tube, bus and rail network to further grow ridership across London."

The data was revealed in a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request and counts actual entry and exit taps, rather than an annualised average.

King's Cross St Pancras (72.5m) and Waterloo (69.8m) are the busiest and second-busiest stations by that metric in a separate dataset, with Tottenham Court Road in third.

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Tottenham Court Road had more than 63m entries and exits last year

Iver, in Buckinghamshire, was the least used Elizabeth line station in 2025.

Last year's most popular bus stop was outside Brixton station (stop P) in south London (4.1m).

On the trams, East Croydon tops the list with 1.9m passengers and the busiest Uber Boat stop is in Canary Wharf, used by 400,000 people.

The data for the first quarter of 2026 shows that Shoreditch High Street is the most popular London Overground station. Emerson Park in east London, as with last year, is the quietest.

Williams added: "The opening of the Elizabeth line has encouraged many more people on to public transport, and the stations connected to the Elizabeth line, such as Tottenham Court Road, have seen the biggest increase in ridership in recent years.

"Millions of people use public transport across the city every day and with our continued investment in new trains, better signalling, making journey planning easier via the free TfL Go app, and managing congestion on our roads, we are committed to making public transport an even more accessible and convenient choice."

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