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This is a list of the busiest
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. The figures are collected by the different operating agencies of each railway station, and are estimates based on ticket usage data, crowd sizes and other extrapolations.


Methodology

This list ranks railway stations in North America based on annual volume of passengers traveling by passenger rail or commuter rail only. Other visitors are not included. For example,
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, a major attraction on its own right in
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, has nearly 500,000https://www.grandcentralterminal.com/ people visiting the station daily either to shop, dine, conduct business, meet family and friends, or admire the station. Those visitors are not included in the count of passengers as they are not using the passenger rail or the commuter rail services. Similarly, Grand Central Terminal also has a major
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in its vicinity which processes nearly 45 million passengers annually but since they arrive and depart using the subway, they are also not included in the final passenger count.


All stations

Only stations which process at least 10 million annual passengers are shown.


See also

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List of busiest Amtrak stations This is a list of the train stations with the highest Amtrak ridership the United States in the fiscal year 2020 (October 2019 to September 2020). Ridership figures from 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 have been provided for compar ...
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List of busiest railway stations in Europe Below is a list of the busiest railway stations in Europe. Train stations with more than 30 million passengers per year are shown. Only data from national networks is shown. Notably, the London stations only include figures on the National Rail ne ...
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List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain This is a list of the busiest railway stations in Great Britain on the National Rail network for the 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 financial year. The dataset records patterns of mobility during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Un ...


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