London’s quietest station where you can’t get a train at the weekend

We’re lucky to have so many fabulous transport options in London, but it’s no secret that navigating certain stations can be exasperating.

Take Liverpool Street, for instance, great links to the east of England, but a nightmare to get through at peak times. So it’ll come as no surprise that the station was named London’s busiest in 2025 with almost 100 million passengers using it last year, according to the Office of Rail and Road.

At the other end of the scale, Sudbury & Harrow Road is regularly said to be London’s quietest train station. 

The Greater London station only had 22,952 entries and exists in 2024/5, making it the 2,249th least busy station in Britain (out of 2,597 stations in total).

Dwindling passenger numbers are perhaps due to the lack of trains that depart from the station. Sudbury & Harrow Road operates a peak-only service, with just eight trains calling there a day on the way to and from London Marylebone.

So that’s four trains in the morning to Marylebone, and four back in the afternoon/evening, with no trains after 7:33 pm.

And if you were thinking of travelling on the weekends, don’t bother, as no trains stop there at all on Saturdays or Sundays.

The reason for this is that the station is located on a two-track line, which is predominantly used for fast trains heading to Oxford and Birmingham. As such, there aren’t many times when trains can stop along the line during the day. 

Local councillors campaigned unsuccessfully for more services to run from the station, with a petition launched in 2022 to bring a weekend service and up to four trains an hour to the station for Sudbury residents.

Brent Councillor Thomas Stephens, a Sudbury ward member, previously told the Brent & Kilburn Times that the decision not to add more trains was a ‘huge missed opportunity for Wembley’.

In response to the petition, Chiltern Railways said: ‘Many stations on the Chiltern line do not benefit from the variety of strong public transport alternatives to the rail network seen in London.

‘If we were to increase the number of trains that call at Sudbury & Harrow Road this would cause considerable disbenefits to our wider customer base or require very significant investment in infrastructure and more trains.’

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If having hardly any trains wasn’t bad enough, the station also has no real facilities.

Visitors to Sudbury & Harrow Road will notice there’s no wife, no ticket machines or ticket office, no toilets, no parking, no ATM, and no refreshment facilities. Part of the station also has no step-free access.

The station is unstaffed, so you won’t be able to ask anyone for help, but there are departure screens displaying information, and if you’ve got a long wait for one of the few trains that stop at the station, you will find a seat to sit on.

Several other London stations were also found to be very quiet, with Drayton Green being the second quietest with 23,270 passengers between 2024 and 2025.

South Greenford was the third quietest, Sudbury Hill Harrow was fourth, and Morden South was fifth.

A version of this story was first published on November 28, 2024.

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