The Quietest Tube Station in London

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11 ай бұрын

London Underground is known for its hustle and bustle, but did you know that there are hidden gems of tranquility among the chaos? Join us on a journey to discover the quietest tube stations in London.
🥉 Number 3: Grange Hill
Located in Essex, Grange Hill station recorded just 1482 entries and exits on the busiest day of the year.
🥈 Number 2: Chigwell
Situated right next to Grange Hill, Chigwell station saw only 1177 people tapping in and out.
🥇 Number 1: Roding Valley
Hold onto your Oyster cards because the quietest station of the London Underground is Roding Valley, with a mere 616 journeys in one day.
But wait, there's more! To level the playing field, we included a 4th bonus station.
🌟 Bonus: North Ealing
With a total of 2068 taps in and out, North Ealing joins the ranks of London's quietest stations.
Now, it's your turn! How busy is your nearest tube station? Share your experiences in the comments below and don't forget to like and subscribe for more London Underground adventures! 🚇🤫
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@UrbanStories 10 ай бұрын

How busy is your nearest station?

@Football_editz20112 10 ай бұрын

My priv one is me and my fam

@rohanitajuddin6353 10 ай бұрын

my nearest station is kensal green not so busy

@TransportForLuka 10 ай бұрын

Battersea Power Station is very busy

@TheMedic338 10 ай бұрын

My nearest station is Newbury park not alot

@jakubchloe3394 10 ай бұрын

Uxbridge, basicly empty

@martinmitchell7280 10 ай бұрын

Part of the reason Grange Hill, Chigwell and Roding Valley are so quiet is because they are semi rural areas. They also aren't in London - but in the Essex county council area.

@KasabianFan44 10 ай бұрын

I don’t think not being in London has anything to do with it mate. If the Greater London boundary were redrawn to include those stations, the three stations wouldn’t suddenly gain passengers just because of that. Plus, Grange Hill and Roding Valley are both about 5 metres away from the Greater London boundary. Their catchment area clearly includes London too.

@hasana1051 10 ай бұрын

It makes sense for Grange Hill but the other two stations have different reasons. Roding Valley isn’t used that much since it’s so unnecessarily close to Woodford (and Buckhurst Hill), and Chigwell isn’t used much simply because services are every 20 minutes AND it’s pretty close to Fairlop.

@neil.heffernan 9 ай бұрын

You're both wrong. Roding Valley is quiet because it's on a branch. There's only a few trains per day that go to central London. All other times, you have to wait 30 mins, just for a train to Woodford where you switch to the normal central line. Most of the time it's faster to just walk 15 mins to Woodford and get on there.

@KasabianFan44 9 ай бұрын

@@neil.heffernan Trains on the Woodford-Hainault section DO go to central London throughout the day. It’s just that most of them go the longer way around (via Newbury Park instead of Snaresbrook), and for some weird reason at RV and Chigwell (but not Grange Hill) they’re advertised as terminating at Hainault. Also, I would dispute the fact that their patronage is so low “because the trains are so infrequent”. It’s more likely the other way around - the trains are so infrequent _because_ the stations are so little-used. Your explanation also doesn’t tell the whole story - for example, Mill Hill East has always had more than double the passenger numbers of the three stations, despite also being served relatively infrequently, and (until recently) with very few trains continuing beyond Finchley Central… why is that? (Oh and also, off-peak trains run every 20 minutes on the Woodford-Hainault section, not every 30.)

@neil.heffernan 9 ай бұрын

@@KasabianFan44I'm specifically talking about Roding Valley. I have family living next to the station. All trains going the other way round from Roding Valley terminate at Hainault. You need to switch there to get to central London, which is much slower than getting the Roding Valley to Woodford train and switching there. For Roding Valley specifically, the main reason for low ridership is because people just walk to Woodford or Buckhurst Hill instead, to avoid waiting at RV and having to switch at Woodford. The only trains from RV to Central London go via Woodford, and only run at certain times of day.

@cesariojpn 10 ай бұрын

Still waiting for my train at Aldwytch.......

@TheStepfordian 10 ай бұрын

And mine to strand 🙄 where it at 😭

@ctra1ns 10 ай бұрын

@@TheStepfordian Strand and Aldwych are the same station.

@axethepenguin 10 ай бұрын

@sketchysaturn1740same! all they seem to do is reverse in and out but they never open!!!1!1!

@Mgameing123 10 ай бұрын

@@ctra1nsStrand was the original name of the Northern Line station Charring Cross.

@ctra1ns 10 ай бұрын

@@Mgameing123 And it was also the original name of the picadilly line station Aldwych. Yes they had 2 names, thats why both where renamed.

@markrobinson2317 9 ай бұрын

if north ealing is the quietest in london i defo apply for most of those taps cos i use that station every day for school and sports there and back

@stonkr 10 ай бұрын

Grange Hill is quiet because Mrs McClusky makes it so.

@andreww2098 9 ай бұрын

and you just dated yourself as watching between 1980-91

@steam_jane5580 9 ай бұрын

@@andreww2098true, likely unless like me they watched lots of seasons not one period, I watched on KZfaq as It finished when I was the right age

@steam_jane5580 9 ай бұрын

Lmoa, good one

@madmaddsdaniel4541 8 ай бұрын

😂😂

@skyejacques 5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 love this! I was wondering why Grange Hill was so quiet... Makes so much sense innit 😂

@Itsalmosthometime 9 ай бұрын

Most of those central line stations are in the Hainault loop that’s way….

@rockerjim8045 10 ай бұрын

my uncle owned a Shoe Shop right next door to Roding Valley station. The premises are still family owned

@splashnoy 9 ай бұрын

My nearest station is Chertanovskya and it is quite busy

@realLsf 10 ай бұрын

There’s ever anyone getting on or off at Holland Park (They all have chauffeurs)😂

@kahyui2486 9 ай бұрын

FYI: theres a well known road in Chigwell High road known as 'millionaires road'. Many of celebrities from footballers fo actors have lived on that road. The houses are some of the best you'll find in the UK.

@UpSleeve 10 ай бұрын

4/20 the busiest day in London for other reasons...

@UrbanStories 10 ай бұрын

Never said the reason

@TransportForLuka 10 ай бұрын

@@UrbanStoriesit's for smoking grass

@DerekHartley 10 ай бұрын

Well, that would be 20/4 in London.

@franco5k 10 ай бұрын

@@UrbanStoriessmoking ganja at Hyde park

$@kingofracism$

@kingofracism 10 ай бұрын

@@franco5kwrong. We celebrate the birthday of Hitler.

@PompeyForLife9 3 ай бұрын

When I went to Charing Cross on the Bakerloo line, me and my dad were the only people on the platform! It was a Thursday as well!

@azurefrost8513 8 ай бұрын

I’m from Hainault and the central line end on Hainault. And you need to take another train to get to Grange Hill and Chigwell which does a loop towards Woodford and towards central London. And Grange Hill, it’s like a luxury area where people have Bentleys and Lamborghinis. So I don’t think people there take he tube as they got tons of cars

@LMays-cu2hp 10 ай бұрын

Looking very nice. I have been at Queensway a few times and it was busy.

@Itsmeh939 10 ай бұрын

Maybe do thw busiest line in london underground and most wffiecent

@xander1052 10 ай бұрын

Busiest is Northern Line, most efficient is meaningless but the line with the most passengers/km is the Victoria Line.

@emzz7358 10 ай бұрын

noo my local station got dragged into the list at the last second 💀 luckily Ealing Broadway is much busier

@hasana1051 10 ай бұрын

It’s a beautiful station, why isn’t it used much?

@emzz7358 10 ай бұрын

@@hasana1051 it's on a unpopular branch of the piccadilly line, it's right next to a main road. but there is also West Acton on the very popular central line not too far away, as well as Ealing Broadway which has connections to national rail, the new Elizabeth line, the central line and the district line.

@turboguy99 10 ай бұрын

It’s so pretty

@quintuscrinis8032 10 ай бұрын

@@hasana1051because it's very close to Ealing Broadway and West Acton. Both of which have more direct/faster connections into the centre of London

@hasana1051 10 ай бұрын

@@quintuscrinis8032 ohhh ok, icl if I lived in Ealing I’d probably use it now and again simply because of how pretty the station is

@deluxewaterless7229 10 ай бұрын

There's a few others too like Ickenham on the Piccadilly line. Or at least it was a few years ago.

@coastaku1954 21 күн бұрын

While I don't live near Toronto anymore, the two least used stations on the network, Downsview Park and Bessarion, are utter ghost towns

@Thelifeofmre 9 ай бұрын

My nearest is Linden on the Chicago L pretty busy😅

@graphicswithluca 4 ай бұрын

I used to live at Buckhurst Hill, Central Line, Near Grange hill and Chigwell. Buckhurst hill has approx 3k taps per day.

@mamunrashid5082 6 күн бұрын

Gants Hill is my current station and it is not that busy 😅

@progenlol 9 ай бұрын

my station gets 0 taps in and out, mainly due to it not having ticket gates.

@kjamison5951 10 ай бұрын

Grange Hill hasn’t been the same since Ofsted closed the school, labelling it ‘unsatisfactory’.

@mrew42 10 ай бұрын

Naff off Tucker

@steam_jane5580 9 ай бұрын

Lmoa, good one

@pommiebears 9 ай бұрын

See Walthamstow Central on that map? I grew up right there. Right up until my 20’s. I’m in Australia now. I do miss home.

@teecchnoboy 10 ай бұрын

my station has 0 passengers, there is none underground station where i live

@HamishG199 10 ай бұрын

Mill Hill East would that be one ?

@sinom6707 10 ай бұрын

Yeah come to say this no more than 100 people use that station a day

@AvgeeksClips45 10 ай бұрын

My train station had a total of 0 passengers since 1964

@michaelcostello1053 10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@PaulJaYmes 9 ай бұрын

very busy "even on weekends" lol - weekends are busier than weekdays at most central stations

@rishipatel9431 10 ай бұрын

My nearest station is grange hill

@rustledjammies8769 10 күн бұрын

I'm surprised some of these weren't closed during the Beeching cuts. In my part of the country they completely removed links that seem ridiculous today. In fact some are being rebuilt because of how stupid the cuts were!

@paul4586 5 ай бұрын

The tube is so arbitrary North Ealing Piccadilly line and West Acton Central line as a five minute walk from each other but you’d never know this on the tube map .

@LeonidJP92 10 ай бұрын

Mill hill east?

@grassytramtracks 7 ай бұрын

Mill Hill East is least used on the Northern line, but it's still reasonably well used

@LeonidJP92 7 ай бұрын

@@grassytramtracks thanks, I'm not londoner and am not good understand local traffic flows.

@quantisedspace7047 4 ай бұрын

I've been waiting for years at MHE to get a train to Bushey Heath. It's almost as if they never actually built this part

@LeonidJP92 4 ай бұрын

@@quantisedspace7047 Jay Foreman context.

@quantisedspace7047 4 ай бұрын

@@LeonidJP92No, nothing to do with Mr Foreman. I was aware of the N Line Extension to B Heat in the mud 1980s. I remember the viaduct still in existence in that field next to Spur Road.

@jezzabeats318 10 ай бұрын

Essex on top

@astrooisntreal 4 ай бұрын

damn, north ealing is my local station

@OffTheRailsUK 10 ай бұрын

Imma be honest nobody was surprised at Rosing Valley Technically Aldwych is the least used 😂

@quantisedspace7047 4 ай бұрын

Well, it's used for filming, as is Charing Cross Jubilee Line.

@LondonEmergency999 10 ай бұрын

These numbers are daily for everyone's information.

@turtwig86 9 ай бұрын

TBF I'm from LA, but when I traveled to London for a few days, Kensington Olympia station was super quiet

@damiana3682 9 ай бұрын

Thats because it only runs on special occasions to serve the local events venue, it runs on more of an ‘as and when needed’ basis on the District Line

@turtwig86 9 ай бұрын

@@damiana3682 ooohhh yeahh that makes sense, I remember having to wait around 20 minutes at Earl's Court in order to get to where the AirBnB/Flat I was staying at was (right behind Olympia) Of course I was only there five days so I haven't (obviously) properly explored or familiarized myself with the underground nearly as much as a local would, but generally it's all so interesting to me since LA doesn't really have much of a proper public transport system which I kind of wish we had as well Regardless thanks for the info! :]

@BengalLancer 10 ай бұрын

Uxbridge is so quiet that you can even sleep there. But you certainly has a greater number of traffic movement. But no one has to wait and create noise as it is a dead end station.

@quintuscrinis8032 10 ай бұрын

Uxbridge feels quieter than it is because there is always a train sitting in the platforms so no-one is ever sitting out on the platforms. Plus it's got the long shopping run and all of the passengers using the bus station entrance to get out wherever they are actually going as quickly as possible.

@edwardmiessner6502 10 ай бұрын

The quietest Tube stations on the London Underground are Charing Cross (Jubilee Line) and Strand (Picadilly Line), because they're not being used anymore.

@bacon001 10 ай бұрын

Well I mean they’re closed and no longer in use for the public so it doesn’t count

@IbrahDu77 9 ай бұрын

You're wrong, Charing Cross station isn't served by the jubilee line, it's the northern line.

@mudchute4dlr 8 ай бұрын

@@IbrahDu77 can you read? he said charing cross for jubilee int used smymore, and plus everyone knows that anyway

@quantisedspace7047 4 ай бұрын

@@IbrahDu77That is literally what the OP stated: Charing Cross Jubilee line isn't used any more.

@kirstybrown1185 9 ай бұрын

I can’t find daily numbers but both my cities main train stations combined (I’m closest to both of them than any connecting station) is 5,000,000 annually. Which does work out to around 6,500 a day. (Not counting peak and weak times, just divided, so won’t be too accurate) Bradford interchange/Bradford Forster square.

@alexx_mendezz 4 ай бұрын

I honestly thought that the least used station on the network was Kensington Olympia

@Theostrainsyt2024 8 ай бұрын

My buesest station Brighton

@Fortnitechapter4 2 күн бұрын

Still waiting for my Gatwick express

@playerscobongameplay 9 ай бұрын

I don't have subways but nearest bus station barely has passengers seen is middle of nowhere

@offtheroadoli5189 9 ай бұрын

I'm not in London but in devon it is Exeter st Davids not many people tap but there are alot on plat 3B , 3 , 3B ,4 , 4B , 5B , 5 , 6 ,6B

@arianaismother. 10 ай бұрын

im telling u rn the thousand in chigwell is my school cuz it’s the nearest to my school im sorry guys😭

@lunar1227 10 ай бұрын

@arianaismother. 9 ай бұрын

@@lunar1227 how do yk….🥹

@b3An404 9 ай бұрын

420 being the busiest tube day is so London bruh😭

@flopyatt2552 5 ай бұрын

My nearest tfl underground station is the most northern one as i live up north 😂

@RichardBrown7k 5 ай бұрын

Grange Hill is next to the Central Line carriage depot. and Roding Valley is next to a major maintenance/repair facility for the train units, so they are no doubt used for staff journeys that are not recorded in the passenger figures

@Abhigamer266 8 күн бұрын

Me in harrow on the hill be like i finally enterd in 4847 years

@TeddyBarefoot 5 ай бұрын

I’ve been to North Ealing station and yes it is quiet 😂

@ItsIvorix 10 ай бұрын

North Greenwich is incredibly busy

@Shivamurthy27 10 ай бұрын

I live just out of roading valley ..goes without saying

@phoenixschallert2720 9 ай бұрын

of course 420 was the busiest day of the year

@michaelandersen-kk4fc 7 күн бұрын

the disused stations are clearly the quietest

@simonsv9449 10 ай бұрын

Could you do the most remote ones?

@FordwichTFCRblxofficial 10 ай бұрын

My one is turkey street on a busy day at least 100 people get off and on each train which is every half an hour

@TheMrFlovo 10 ай бұрын

How many of those don’t have barriers? 😊

@xander1052 10 ай бұрын

@grassytramtracks 10 ай бұрын

@@xander1052there are I believe 11 stations with no barriers, Roding Valley is definitely one of them

@quintuscrinis8032 10 ай бұрын

North Ealing does have barriers, I know because it used to be station I commuted to (although it took me years to realise I could walk to the Broadway from there rather than sitting at Ealing Common for 10 minutes after the trains invariably passed each other at the junction just South of North Ealing).

@tescotrain 10 ай бұрын

Only roding valley doesn't

@quantisedspace7047 4 ай бұрын

Roding Valley has no barriers, pr so I thought.

@Michelle_Schu-blacka 5 ай бұрын

How come Mill Hill East doesn't get a mention?

@jimmyedwards1639 3 ай бұрын

Lancaster Gate would get my vote for quietest in Zone 1.

@theguy2193 10 ай бұрын

The reason for Grange Hill, Chigwell and Roding Valley is because no one taps they just go.

@727Nerd27 Ай бұрын

But what about the quietest tube station that's literally underground? Most stations below ground are located near the inner suburbs and city, so that would be interesting.

@TheGeep 10 ай бұрын

even on weekends? especially on weekends, since that is when people are out and about more often and it's also when the most visitors/tourists tend to arrive.

@Gary_Harlow 9 ай бұрын

Much more traffic is people going to work than leisure trips

@SGtravelsEU 9 ай бұрын

I wanna bet Kensington (Olympia) had less people using the underground that day :P

@nuhabashir1672 Күн бұрын

All those stations are near me

@RYLIECOOLGAMER 9 ай бұрын

Central line is always busy

@jasonlam9017 5 ай бұрын

North Ealing was the fourth least used station on a school day th20.4.2023. Who knew? Where did all those girls from Ellen Wilkinson High School go?

@g20hypercars12 9 ай бұрын

lol, m’y station can get busy at times, poor me getting stuck in the South Ken traffic

@estiejs 9 ай бұрын

Probably the nearest to me is maybe Bemowo in Warsaw. but i still live 300km from the nearest metro system

@i69420 4 ай бұрын

My closest overground station is Cheshunt but my closest underground station is Loughton

@Itsmeh939 10 ай бұрын

My nearest is sevens siters one of the buaieat maybe next do why is 1995 and 1996 stock differetn from eachother like similartires and differences

@irenenamoc3689 Ай бұрын

Roding Valley🔛🔝

@astrogamer4219 9 ай бұрын

Most people who live in chigwell just go to woodford Station cause its more convenient

@Ragatha-aviation-doll 9 ай бұрын

Acton main line is very quiet (except when there’s a diesel locomotive passing)

@mudchute4dlr 8 ай бұрын

and neither is acton main line a tube

@salsadip7453 9 ай бұрын

It’s so loud in the tube due to the open windows In my country the windows are closed, it’s so much more quiet

@___-000 5 ай бұрын

It's still very loud with closed windows.

@SeaUsername 9 күн бұрын

was that taps per day or what?

@noveenzkbilal2879 10 ай бұрын

It is every time busy over 120 people

@danh5637 10 ай бұрын

You said in London. They were in Essex. Essex is not London.

@raze6919 9 ай бұрын

The London underground serves Essex, Kent and other surrounding areas. They're still part of the London underground network.

@danh5637 9 ай бұрын

@@raze6919 the video is title “in London” not “a part of the London Underground network”

@paddyandhisguitar2831 9 ай бұрын

Greater London pushes out to zone 6. Technically it's both. They have to pay the GLA, have the MET and are London boroughs

@PaulJaYmes 9 ай бұрын

@@paddyandhisguitar2831 Those 3 quietest stations are not in Greater London. They're not in a London Borough. They cannot be "both"; Greater London is defined by a political line on the map and they are firmly outside it.

@paddyandhisguitar2831 9 ай бұрын

@@PaulJaYmes I thought Chigwell was in LB Redbridge but perhaps not. I know that there was a battle in the 60s about the boundaries and people get sniffy about it. In Havering it's a LB all the way to zone 6 up to Thurrock. Our address is Essex but still in the LB.

@RandomEditsOfThings 9 ай бұрын

Mine is Pimlico and it’s not busy any time

@LDNbuses 10 ай бұрын

Regent’s Park should be there

@quantisedspace7047 4 ай бұрын

Why does this video use the word 'quietest' ? I thought it was asking about dB level, not number of pax in/out. Where does this ticket data come from ?

@JakesTrainsUK 10 ай бұрын

How do you find out how many passengers uk stations get

@UrbanStories 10 ай бұрын

TfL usually publishes this kind of stats every year

@ARandom_Toad 8 ай бұрын

What is the quietest underground underground station

@louisspringett 9 ай бұрын

My nearest station is Brixton I think

@IVA4651 10 ай бұрын

Most of them are on the centril line

@quintuscrinis8032 10 ай бұрын

The quiest 3 are, and the 4th is quiet because of the Central line. 😅

@SpandauJerry 4 күн бұрын

How did you found out?? 🤔🙃

@espeon144 10 ай бұрын

Kensington olympia

@christiangraham9347 9 ай бұрын

Reading but I go to London via Paddington

@absolutelypositively 6 ай бұрын

What’s the story on the circle line? Heard it’s haunted..Even the classic rock band Jethro Tull sing sang about an ice wall creaking behind you when you cross the circle line. That was in 1974.

@quantisedspace7047 4 ай бұрын

It's true. The circle line has been rerouted to avoid Operating Difficulties Due To Spectral Ethereal Phenomena. Every trip, at Edgware Road, It crosses itself to ward off evil spirits. It now goes to Hammersmith.

@JordaneStephenson-kb9oc 16 сағат бұрын

Mine is less. Hornchurch station is less busy

@CcalkK 9 ай бұрын

Without me Chigwell would've seen 1 less 🤙

@AdminFrank 10 ай бұрын

Wrong, the Quietest Tube Station is Aldwych with 0 Tap ins and Tap outs and it is so quiet, you can here the heartbeat of the Rats… however you can only book tickets there from Blake Hall Tube Station. Best ask at your Local Tube Station for special travel to both stations to experience the silence!

@RBMapleLeaf 10 ай бұрын

I hope you're joking because that station isn't open to passengers. Besides the tours and all. It's been closed since 1994.

@hasana1051 10 ай бұрын

Isn’t Blake hall station a house now?

@britrocker3393 10 ай бұрын

Bruh I have tapped in at Aldwych. Granted I’m still waiting for a train.

@mudchute4dlr 8 ай бұрын

you are that dumb? aldwych closed in 1590 (ok that was a joke but it closed ages ago)

@user-is7yg9xc9i 6 ай бұрын

I live in brimsdown but the closest London Underground station To me is Totoham hale

@ELTransportGuy_2 10 ай бұрын

Grange Hill 30 mins from my house

@MarioDSLife 10 ай бұрын

Technically the top three are in Essex, not London. What would be the busiest within the Greater London boundary?

@UrbanStories 10 ай бұрын

That's why I've included a 4th station at the end

@espeon144 10 ай бұрын

@UrbanStories I think the quietest is Kensington olympia I know it has national rails services but it's still dead quiet overall

@quintuscrinis8032 10 ай бұрын

@espeon144 it's quiet most of the time but very busy on event days at the Olympia venue, so that's probably why it isn't here. North Ealing is silent almost permanently. I used to work at Ealing Broadway and it took me years to realise thay I could just walk the last bit from North Ealing rather than wait for 10 minutes at Ealing Common. Anyone going into London from the area will use West Acton or Ealing Broadway depending where exactly they live.

@J0ED_ 9 ай бұрын

Roding Valley isn’t in Essex, it’s just before the border

@Blu3y.P4wzz 9 ай бұрын

I can’t guess for Queensland rail fortitude Valley all Central

@italian- 9 ай бұрын

I think the busiest would be waterloo

@awesomeentertainment977 10 ай бұрын

All you had to say was: did you know the quitest tube station is ....

@nochillisauce 9 ай бұрын

even on weekends? SPECIALLY on weekends

@user-nz3dj1xt4v 7 ай бұрын

Mine is harold wood and ima be honest right now it is like living in hell when I tap into harold wood station but the Elizabeth line trains are super quiet. Someone tell me how the hell this is possible???