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Growing number of passengers at Yorkshire stations December 4, 2025

Leeds continues to be the Yorkshire station with highest passenger numbersAnnual estimates of station usage show Yorkshire has a growing number of passengers using its railway stations. The figures, published on Thursday December 4 by the Government's Office of Rail and Road, cover the year up to the end of March 2025 and nationally show a 7% rise in passengers.

Leeds station continues to have the highest number of passengers in Yorkshire with more than 27 million station entries and exits in the year. The figure has not quite returned to the often congested level of use up to 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic dramatically hit passenger figures. This is unlike York and Sheffield , in second and third place, which have new record passenger figures this year, now exceeding the pre-pandemic levels with over 10 million passengers each. Doncaster and Huddersfield are Yorkshire's fourth and fifth busiest stations. Read more on this Railway stations page.

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