Lewisham ranked one of the UK’s busiest train stations

Data from On Time Trains, which monitors rail performance across the UK, has ranked the country’s 2,644 stations using a range of measures, from levels of footfall to punctuality.

Stations are scored based on how reliably services run, factoring in on-time arrivals, short and long delays, and cancellations.

Each location is then ranked nationally, alongside average daily passenger entries and exits, to show how busy stations are in comparison.

Passenger figures from On Time Trains show Lewisham station remains the borough’s busiest in 2025, ranking 69th busiest nationally with an average of 19,244 entries and exits per day, equating to around seven million passenger movements a year.

Coming in second and third are New Cross Gate and Forest Hill, both ranking within the top 150 busiest stations in the UK.

Brockley, Sydenham and New Cross complete the group of the borough’s most heavily used stations, all ranking within the top 200 nationally.

By contrast, Beckenham Hill was Lewisham’s least busy station, ranking 1,014th nationally with just more than 1,000 daily entries and exits. Bellingham and Crofton Park were also among the quieter stations in the borough, each handling fewer than 2,000 passenger entries and exits per day.

Here’s the full list of Lewisham’s most and least busy stations for 2025:

1. Lewisham – 69th busiest, 19,244 entries/exits per day
2. New Cross Gate – 120th busiest, 12,467 entries/exits per day
3. Forest Hill – 130th busiest, 11,587 entries/exits per day
4. Brockley – 148th busiest, 10,051 entries/exits per day
5. Sydenham – 155th busiest, 9,703 entries/exits per day
6. New Cross – 167th busiest, 8,715 entries/exits per day
7. Hither Green – 188th busiest, 7,943 entries/exits per day
8. Honor Oak Park – 219th busiest, 6,996 entries/exits per day
9. Catford Bridge – 226th busiest, 6,883 entries/exits per day
10. Grove Park – 258th busiest, 6,293 entries/exits per day
11. Blackheath – 260th busiest, 6,243 entries/exits per day
12. Deptford – 338th busiest, 4,504 entries/exits per day
13. Lee – 374th busiest, 4,063 entries/exits per day
14. Ladywell – 444th busiest, 3,439 entries/exits per day
15. St Johns – 622nd busiest, 2,308 entries/exits per day
16. Lower Sydenham – 660th busiest, 2,156 entries/exits per day
17. Catford – 665th busiest, 2,130 entries/exits per day
18. Crofton Park – 714th busiest, 1,917 entries/exits per day
19. Bellingham – 772nd busiest, 1,708 entries/exits per day
20. Beckenham Hill – 1,014th busiest, 1,038 entries/exits per day

When it came to performance over the last six months, Grove Park was ranked as Lewisham’s best performing station, placing 117th nationally out of 2,644 stations. The station recorded a strong 95 per cent performance score across 36,460 services, with 76 per cent of trains arriving on time and relatively low levels of longer delays and cancellations. Grove Park also improved its national ranking by 81 places compared to the previous six-month period.

However, Deptford was Lewisham’s weakest performer, ranking 1,131st nationally with an overall performance score of 86 per cent.

Over the past six months, the station recorded 29,705 services, with just 52 per cent of trains arriving on time.

An additional 28 per cent were delayed by one to two minutes, while longer delays were more common than at most other stations in the borough.

Around 5 per cent of services were cancelled, the highest rate in Lewisham, and Deptford was the only local station to see a fall in its national ranking compared to the previous period.