Liverpool Street becomes Britain's busiest station

London's Liverpool Street station has replaced Waterloo as the busiest in Britain, new figures show.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said the "full opening of the Elizabeth line has changed the way people travel".

Outside London, the busiest stations were Birmingham New Street, Leeds and Manchester Piccadilly.

Glasgow Central was the most used station in Scotland and Cardiff Central topped the list in Wales.

The ORR said between April 2022 and March 2023, there were 80.4 million entries and exits at Liverpool Street station.

It has seen a year-on-year increase of around 50 million, which was attributed to the opening of the Elizabeth line in May 2022, which serves the station.

The line, which also stops at Paddington, cause the station to rise to second place with 59.2 million entries and exits.

Waterloo fell to third place with 57.8 million entries and exits.

Feras Alshaker, director of planning and performance at the ORR, said: "Waterloo had been the busiest station in Britain for all but one of the previous 18 years."

Beyond the capital the busiest stations were:

The least used station that was open throughout the whole year was Denton, Greater Manchester, with 34 entries and exits.

Only two entries and exits were recorded at Teesside Airport station. But its once-a-week Sunday service was suspended in May 2022 after the platform was classified as unsafe.