Trivia: most unbalanced directions from stations

[A S Leib]

Which station, excluding termini, has the biggest difference between the number of trains entering / leaving it from one direction compared to another? Ellesmere Port's probably the winner, with 2 tph going west and only four trains per day coming from or going to the east. Which other examples of stations with large differences are there?

• Edinburgh has ~15 tph going to the Central Belt, other Scottish cities and Carlisle compared to 7 tph combined for Tweedbank, North Berwick and Newcastle
• There's ~26 tph departing from Glasgow Central High Level compared to 6 tph in each direction through Low Level.
• Leeds has ~28 tph going west and 7 tph (Northern Hull and York stoppers, XC, TPE to Hull, Teesside and Newcastle)

For stations with more than two clear directions (e.g. Farringdon or Tamworth – not that either of those have massive relative differences), the biggest difference between services in directions counts.

 

[Llandudno]

Liverpool Lime Street to Liverpool Central

Approx 200 per day in one direction and none in the reverse direction!

 

[43010]

Bedwyn - 3 departures per day heading westbound (1J73 09:43 to Westbury, 1J93 19:15 to Frome, 1C93 19:31 to Plymouth), 25 departures per day heading eastbound (predominantly the hourly shuttle to Newbury, but with some early morning/late evening extras to London Paddington/Reading)

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Liverpool Lime Street to Liverpool Central

Approx 200 per day in one direction and none in the reverse direction!

Similarly Liverpool James Street to Moorfields. Think the one-way loop under central Liverpool will be hard to beat.

 

[LowLevel]

Not quite on the same numbers scale but Shrewsbury has far more southbound departures than northbound ones.

 

[Peter0124]

What about Heathrow Terminal 4 on the Piccadilly line? You can only come from Hatton Cross and head to Terminal 2&3 as its a one platform loop similar to Merseyrail.

 

[D6130]

Skipton....four - sometimes five - tph towards Leeds/Bradford and only one tph towards Carlisle/Lancaster.

 

[Dr Strider]

How about Manchester Airport, weekdays 7 tph towards Piccadilly, only 1 tph towards Wilmslow and Crewe. And no trains at all towards Crewe after 1901!

 

[xotGD]

Chathill. 100% of departures head southbound.

 

[Purple Train]

Chathill. 100% of departures head southbound.

I know it isn't a physical terminus, but surely it counts as one, and is therefore excluded?

 

[The exile]

Which station, excluding termini, has the biggest difference between the number of trains entering / leaving it from one direction compared to another? Ellesmere Port's probably the winner, with 2 tph going west and only four trains per day coming from or going to the east. Which other examples of stations with large differences are there?

• Edinburgh has ~15 tph going to the Central Belt, other Scottish cities and Carlisle compared to 7 tph combined for Tweedbank, North Berwick and Newcastle
• There's ~26 tph departing from Glasgow Central High Level compared to 6 tph in each direction through Low Level.
• Leeds has ~28 tph going west and 7 tph (Northern Hull and York stoppers, XC, TPE to Hull, Teesside and Newcastle)

For stations with more than two clear directions (e.g. Farringdon or Tamworth – not that either of those have massive relative differences), the biggest difference between services in directions counts.

Surely Glasgow Central High Level fails your own definition as it’s a terminus.

 

[A S Leib]

I know it isn't a physical terminus, but surely it counts as one, and is therefore excluded?

Bedwyn's the closest parallel to Chathill I can think of, and that's clearly not a terminus. That being said, I can't imagine any prospect of northbound passenger services from Chathill in the near future, so I'd lean towards it being a terminus.

Surely Glasgow Central High Level fails your own definition as it’s a terminus.

It's still one station; I wouldn't count St. Pancras EMR / Thameslink separately despite the need to go through ticket barriers and down escalators. When in doubt, I'm sticking to one three-letter code being one station (except weird cases like Bletchley High Level currently having a separate code, which I think is just until it's open).

 

[Horizon22]

Bedwyn's the closest parallel to Chathill I can think of, and that's clearly not a terminus. That being said, I can't imagine any prospect of northbound passenger services from Chathill in the near future, so I'd lean towards it being a terminus.

It's still one station; I wouldn't count St. Pancras EMR / Thameslink separately despite the need to go through ticket barriers and down escalators. When in doubt, I'm sticking to one three-letter code being one station (except weird cases like Bletchley High Level currently having a separate code, which I think is just until it's open).

In that sense surely there are lots of stations that are partially terminus, partially through stations (e.g. Abbey Wood, Shenfield, Dartford, Orpington to name a few) which would be skewed?

 

[A S Leib]

In that sense surely there are lots of stations that are partially terminus, partially through stations (e.g. Abbey Wood, Shenfield, Dartford, Orpington to name a few) which would be skewed?

Yes, although some of those examples are relatively balanced and I'm trying to find more skewed ones (I think Orpington only has 4 tph terminating?).

 

[Bovverboy]

How about Manchester Airport, weekdays 7 tph towards Piccadilly, only 1 tph towards Wilmslow and Crewe. And no trains at all towards Crewe after 1901!

After 1901 hrs M-S and all day Sun, trains leaving Manchester Airport for Wilmslow terminate there, that's the only difference. Connections to/from Crewe are available (but you may have to wait almost an hour).

 

[Magdalia]

In that sense surely there are lots of stations that are partially terminus, partially through stations (e.g. Abbey Wood, Shenfield, Dartford, Orpington to name a few) which would be skewed?

Yes, although some of those examples are relatively balanced and I'm trying to find more skewed ones (I think Orpington only has 4 tph terminating?).

A good example in the London area is Dorking, which has 3tph off peak and 4tph peak going to and from Leatherhead but only 1tph to and from Horsham.

 

[geoffk]

Ayr would be another.

 

[greatkingrat]

Morecambe could qualify, with only one train a day towards Heysham.

 

[xotGD]

I know it isn't a physical terminus, but surely it counts as one, and is therefore excluded?

The service previously went through to Berwick, and before that Edinburgh.

There has been some speculation of the reintroduction of Newcastle - Edinburgh stoppers, so you never know.

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Knottingley. Lots of trains head8ng west.,one train heading east.

 

[Class15]

Morecambe could qualify, with only one train a day towards Heysham.

They all leave from the same direction though?

 

[Peter0124]

Dalmuir

 

[xotGD]

Castleford. Previously everything departed, shall I describe it as 'south', but now there are a few Trans Pennine services departing towards York.

Manchester Piccadilly. One through platform in each direction where the number of services balance out, but all of the departures from the bays head 'south'.

 

[Falcon1200]

Ayr would be another.

And not far away, Kilmarnock. Not so much Barrhead, now that half the stopping trains to and from Glasgow are Kilmarnock services, however.

 

[Huntergreed]

Here in Dumfries we have 17 southbound and only 8 northbound departures on a normal weekday.

 

[xotGD]

Morpeth has rather more southbound than northbound departures.

 

[Topological]

Castleford. Previously everything departed, shall I describe it as 'south', but now there are a few Trans Pennine services departing towards York.

Manchester Piccadilly. One through platform in each direction where the number of services balance out, but all of the departures from the bays head 'south'.

Manchester Piccadilly gets more unbalanced when thinking that the curve of 13/14 brings trains to depart in the same direction as the "bays".

When I saw the thread title, I wrongly assumed this was going to be about stations where there were more departures to X than arrivals from X. That is a different type of unbalanced though.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Its probably about time someone mentioned Stourbridge Junction

 

[ajp999]

South Bank would be a temporary contender.

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Corby has multiple southbound departures; but only one northbound per day unless EMR services are being diverted.

 

[InkyScrolls]

Its probably about time someone mentioned Stourbridge Junction

Always a contender in any debate!

 

[Kite159]

MetroCentre on a Sunday when Northern run additional Newcastle - MetroCentre shuttle services?