List of busiest railway stations in North America

This is a list of the busiest railway stations in North America. 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. This data only covers Canada and the United States as a detailed passenger volume breakdown of other countries in North America such as Mexico is not available.

List of busiest railway stations by annual passenger and commuter rail volume

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, Grand Central Terminal, a major attraction on its own right in New York City, has nearly 500,000[1][2][Note 1] 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 subway station in its vicinity which processes nearly 45 million[3] passengers annually but since they arrive and depart using the subway, they are also not included in the final passenger count.

Only stations which process at least 10 million annual passengers are shown. The below list is comparable with how the United Kingdom tracks its busiest railway stations as they also use the same criteria.

See also: List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain
Rank Railway Station Annual entries/exits (millions) City Country Main Services Number of platforms Interchange systems Image
1New York Penn Station107.416[4][5][6][7][Note 2]New York City United StatesAmtrak, Long Island Rail Road, NJ Transit11New York City Subway, PATH
2Toronto Union Station72.410[8][9]Toronto CanadaAmtrak, GO Transit, Union Pearson Express, Via Rail12Toronto streetcar, Toronto subway
3Grand Central Terminal66.952[10]New York City United StatesMetro-North Railroad44New York City Subway
4Jamaica Station59.803[11]New York City United StatesLong Island Rail Road5AirTrain JFK, New York City Subway
5Chicago Union Station43.948[12]Chicago United StatesAmtrak, Metra30Chicago "L"
6Ogilvie Transportation Center31.905[13]Chicago United StatesMetra8Chicago "L"
7South Station28.875[14]Boston United StatesAmtrak, MBTA Commuter Rail13MBTA subway
8Newark Penn Station17.881[15][16][17][18]Newark United StatesAmtrak, NJ Transit6Newark Light Rail, PATH
9World Trade Center Station17.159[19]New York City United StatesPATH4New York City Subway
10Hoboken Terminal14.950[20][21][22]Hoboken United StatesNJ Transit, Metro-North Railroad10Hudson–Bergen Light Rail, PATH, NY Waterway
11Washington Union Station13.665[23][24]Washington, D.C. United StatesAmtrak, MARC Train, Virginia Railway Express18DC Streetcar, Washington Metro
1230th Street Station12.270[25][26][27]Philadelphia United StatesAmtrak, NJ Transit, SEPTA Regional Rail9Market–Frankford Line, SEPTA subway–surface trolley lines
13Los Angeles Union Station10.999[28]

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 Los Angeles United StatesAmtrak, Metrolink9Los Angeles Metro Rail
14Millennium Station10.764[31]Chicago United StatesMetra, South Shore Line6Chicago "L"
15Montreal Central Station10.687[32][33][34]Montreal CanadaAmtrak, Exo, Via Rail7Montreal Metro

List of busiest railway stations by average weekday visitors

This list ranks railway stations in North America by average weekday visitors. There are two categories of visitors. The first are transit visitors which includes rail passengers, rail commuters, subway riders from adjoining subway stations, and people using other forms of transportation to get to and from the station such as Buses, Light Rail, Air Trains, etc. The second are non-transit visitors which includes people using the station amenities to shop, dine, meet family and friends, tourists visiting the station, people meeting at the station to conduct business, people walking through the station, and station employees and other workers who pass through the station. The average weekday visitor is the total of both categories.

Only stations which handle an average of at least 100,000 weekday visitors are shown.

Rank Station Transit Visitors
(Avg. per/weekday)		 Non-Transit Visitors
(Avg. per/weekday)		 Total Visitors
(Avg. per/weekday)		 City Country
1Grand Central Terminal250,000[35]500,000750,000[36]New York City United States
2New York Penn Station630,000[37]20,000650,000[38]New York City United States
3Toronto Union Station250,000[39]50,000300,000[40]Toronto Canada
4Jamaica Station200,000-200,000[41]New York City United States
5Washington Union Station50,000[Note 3]110,000[42][Note 4]160,000Washington, D.C. United States
6Chicago Union Station150,000-150,000[43]Chicago United States
7Los Angeles Union Station110,000-110,000[44]Los Angeles United States
8Ogilvie Transportation Center106,700-106,700[45]Chicago United States

Notes
  1. 750,000 people visit Grand Central Terminal and over 250,000 are commuters who commute using passenger rail, commuter rail, subways and buses. Which gives 500,000 non-transit visitors.
  2. Total is derived by adding up passengers on LIRR, NJ Transit and Amtrak. LIRR 2017 Totals breaks down as follows: 117180 daily weekday arrivals, 116160 daily weekday departures, 48960 Saturday arrivals, 48470 Saturday departures, 36950 Sunday arrivals, 40700 Sunday departures. This gives us a yearly total of ((117180+116160)*5+(48960+48470)+(36950+40700))*52 = 69,722,560. NJ Transit 2017 Totals breaks down as follows: 93,305 weekday arrivals and departures from Penn Station. Breakdown for Saturday and Sunday is not given but it can be calculated by looking at the percentage drop in total ridership. 307853 total trips took place on NJ Transit on a weekday, 104088 took place on Saturday and 87709 on Sunday. Which means ridership on Saturday is 33.8% that of an average weekday and ridership on Sunday is 28.5% that of a weekday. Which gives (93305*0.338) = 31547 arrivals and departures from Penn Station on Saturday and (93305*0.285) = 26853 arrivals and departures from Penn Station Sunday. Giving us a yearly total of ((93305*5)+31547+26853)*52 = 27,296,100. Amtrak 2017 total is: 10,397,729. Totaling up these 3 figures gives us: 69,722,560+27,296,100+10,397,729 = 107,416,389
  3. Washington Union Station has 5,225,460 annual amtrak passengers and 28,864 daily metro riders. 5,225,460/365 + 28,864 = 43,180 and rounded up to 50,000 due to higher average of weekday vs weekend.
  4. Washington Union Station receives 40 million annual visitors. 40,000,000/365 = 109,589. Rounded it to 110,000.

See also

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