In 2022/2023, Chester had 4,121,592 entries and exits, making it the 105^th most used, out of 2,575 stations in Great Britain.
It ranked 86^th busiest (out of 997), with 2,293 scheduled services per week.
That's a daily average of 11292.03 passengers* starting or ending their journey here and 34.57 passengers per service*, giving it the 176^th (out of 1,659) passenger to service ratio.
* This increases to a daily average of 13179.3 passengers passing through the station and 46.12 passengers per service when interchanges are included.
Service sample data based on scheduled services during the first week of the May 22 timetable.

A detailed breakdown of passenger journeys between individual stations can be found in our origin/destination matrix pages.

Plat.	Metres	VF*	Notes
1	135	490
2	121	439
3	375	1363	"Platform 3a 178m
4	310	1127
5	112	407
6	112	407
7	307	1116	"DC electrified line. Platform 7a 163m

*VF = Vicki Feet: the unit of measurement for platform lengths, as used in the excellent All The Stations. Conversion rate: YouTube video
Data derived from Network Rail timetable planning rules 2025 (Jan 2024)

2013-14 Improved PTE Infill
2019-20 The number of entries and exits distributed across stations in the Merseyside PTE area has increased 6% as a result of additional tickets being included in the dataset for 2019-20

Location: Chester
CRS: CTR / NLC: 2412 / TIPLOC(S): CHST
Station Facility Owner: TfW Rail
OS Grid Ref: 341348 366985
Constituency: City of Chester
Local Authority: Cheshire West and Chester
NR Region: North West
PTE: Merseyside
ELR: CNH2 179m 00ch
This station is part of the Merseyside PTE

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Top 5 jouneys from Chester during 2022/2023:
•Liverpool Lime Street (162,643 journeys)
•London Euston (138,976 journeys)
•Liverpool Central (113,986 journeys)
•Manchester Victoria (105,078 journeys)
•Crewe (76,311 journeys)
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