Trivia: most unbalanced directions from stations

[satisnek]

Smethwick Galton Bridge used to have 6tph high level and 2 tph low level but it's now, I believe, 4tph on both levels so it's actually useful.

Its probably about time someone mentioned Stourbridge Junction

4tph/4tph/6tph, so no big difference these days.

 

[ServerHoster]

I have no idea why, but before COVID, on weekdays at Hartford it used to get 1tph northbound and 2tph southbound. (2tph in each direction on Saturdays, 1tph in each direction on Sundays).
COVID temporary timetables etc. put an end to this, now it has 1tph in each direction every day. Even though the second train per hour has been reinstated, it does not stop at Hartford.

 

[thenorthern]

Not so much one station but I always found Helensburgh odd as there is 2 trains per hour to Glasgow from Helensburgh Central while Helensburgh Upper has just 7 trains per day Northbound. It's a massive contrast and like the end of the regular clockface timetable and into the rural services with massive gaps in time between services.

 

[Springs Branch]

Clitheroe.

1 tph (Northern cancellations excepted) to/from Blackburn direction.
2 trains per week to/from Hellifield direction (last time I looked - is it still two trains Saturdays Only?)

 

[InkyScrolls]

Clitheroe.

1 tph (Northern cancellations excepted) to/from Blackburn direction.
2 trains per week to/from Hellifield direction (last time I looked - is it still two trains Saturdays Only?)

That's correct, aye.

 

[cjw714]

Not sure of the exact numbers per hour but there can't be many stations where more trains reverse than Gloucester which creates an imbalance between the relatively small number of trains heading towards Lydney and everything else leaving in the opposite direction.

And it's probably not the largest imbalance but more trains leave Exeter St Davids heading south than north. The majority of trains from the north continue past St Davids but the Exmouth-Paignton services reverse and enter and exit from the south. And there's also the service from Waterloo which arrives from the south and terminates.

 

[The exile]

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 which case - what about Waterloo?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Not so much one station but I always found Helensburgh odd as there is 2 trains per hour to Glasgow from Helensburgh Central while Helensburgh Upper has just 7 trains per day Northbound. It's a massive contrast and like the end of the regular clockface timetable and into the rural services with massive gaps in time between services.

Helensburgh Central is a terminus, and is therefore out of scope as per the OP's criteria. Helensburgh Upper has 7 trains per day Northbound and normally 8 in the opposite direction (towards Dumbarton Central / Glasgow Queen Street or beyond) which is only a 1 train difference.

 

[Old Yard Dog]

Polesworth - one train per day northbound (SuX), no trains at all southbound

 

[Peter0124]

Maybe Motherwell if you count the Hamilton direction as being towards Glasgow

 

[Class15]

Dalston Junction could potentially be an interesting one - 8tph West, 16tph East. Maybe also a shout to Shenfield. There are 8tph terminating XR services and 7tph through by GA. That would make 7tph east and 14tph west. If the Southend line does not count, and just the GEML is taken, it’s even more unbalanced at 14tph west and 4tph east.