World's Busiest Train Stations (2019)
Exploring some of the busiest transport hubs in the world. Staff, drivers, engineers, maintenance crews and transport police battle travel disruption and human drama to keep their trains and passengers on track.
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In New York, Grand Central Terminal sees more than one million people per week use its platforms and cross its art deco terminus. Penn Station, on the west side of Manhattan, is the busiest terminal in the western hemisphere.
Howrah Terminal is the busiest station in India. A million daily passengers and no ticket barriers makes spotting far evaders difficult in Calcutta. Meanwhile a hundred street kids live right on the platforms.
Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street station is not just the busiest and oldest in Australia, but in the whole of the southern hemisphere. It was opened in 1854 and today, 30 million passengers per year makes use of its 15 platforms.
Serving up to 2,915 trains per day, Zürich HB is one of the busiest railway stations in the world. It was ranked as the second best European railway station in 2020