The ranking of Britain’s loneliest train stations is topped by a stop that sees only 34 passengers pass through each year.
The list has been prepared by the website. cadalaststation.co.ukwhich analyzed data from 2023 from Railway and Road Office to reveal which stations in England, Wales and Scotland are the least visited.
Denton station, a few miles east of central Manchester on the Stockport-Stalybridge line, is the number one least used overall. The two-platform station is maintained by Northern Rail, is unstaffed and only receives one train service per week, leaving for Stalybridge on a Friday morning at 9.32am. thetrainline.com.
The service, nicknamed ‘Denton Flyer’, arrives in Stalybridge in 11 minutes and passengers must stop in Denton.
Elton and Orston station in Nottinghamshire is the second least used train station in Britain with 56 users a year.
Denton station (above), on the Stockport-Stalybridge line, is the number one least used station in Britain. Image courtesy of Creative commons license
Elton and Orston station, pictured above, in Nottinghamshire, is the second least-used railway station in Britain, with just 56 annual visitors.
East Midlands Railway Station receives one train a day in each direction: one traveling to Nottingham in 48 minutes and another taking just under two hours to reach Skegness.
Completing the three least visited stations is Kirton Lindsey, in Lincolnshire, with 94 visitors a year.
Northern Rail station receives two trains daily, Monday to Friday, heading to Sheffield in one direction and Cleethorpes in the other.
Train stations in England make up the majority of the top 10 least visited centres, with Coombe Junction Halt (120 visitors) in Cornwall in fourth place.
Scotscalder, on the Inverness-Wick Scotrail line in the far north of Scotland, completes the top five with an estimated 124 annual visitors.
The rest of the top 10 are made up of Ince and Elton, Cheshire (sixth, 130 passengers); Shippea Hill, Cambridgeshire (7th, 142); Polesworth, Warwickshire (8th, 188); Chapelton, Devon (9th, 194); and Pilning, Gloucestershire (10, 338).
The least visited resort in Wales is Sugar Loaf in Powys, with 398 annual visitors each year, placing it 13th in the ranking.
Above is the most remote and least used railway station in Wales: Sugar Loaf in Powys. Last year it was used by only 398 people. Image courtesy of Creative commons license
Above is Scotscalder station on the Inverness-Wick line. With just 124 passengers a year, it is the least used railway station in Scotland and the fifth least used in Britain. Image courtesy of Creative commons license