gone down, the green are where passengers are going up). About this article Train stations in Britain listed and mapped: find out how busy each one is This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 10.38 EDT on Thursday 29 March 2012 . It was last modified at 11.11 EDT on Thursday 29 March 2012 . It was first published at 10.40 EDT on Thursday 19 May 2011 . Presumably because before buses were invented there was only one sort of station, for the railway, and when stations for buses arrived they had to be distinguished from the railway ones. In any case, if you look at I wonder which area gets the prize for the largest number of underused stations. Here in Thanet in East Kent, we have 7 stations within (I think) about 10 miles - which sounds fair enough compared to an urban area, but we're largely rural and the population of the towns is relatively low. Some are literally a couple of minutes from each other. Which means that there are some notorious stations which people regularly use as a free trip into town to save walking a few hundred yards. The ticket prices are so low and the trip is so short that I guess for most of the day it isn't worth the conductor trying to get through the train in the time between stations. This isn't new, although adding the location is. On the ORR website http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/n\\... equivalent data is available from 2002. Which