In 2022/2023, Leicester had 4,869,836 entries and exits, making it the 86^th most used, out of 2,575 stations in Great Britain.
It ranked 166^th busiest (out of 997), with 1,554 scheduled services per week.
That's a daily average of 13342.02 passengers* starting or ending their journey here and 60.26 passengers per service*, giving it the 54^th (out of 1,659) passenger to service ratio.
* This increases to a daily average of 14500.07 passengers passing through the station and 70.73 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	270	981	an additional 2m available for southbound trains
2	281	1021
3	281	1021
4	288	1047

*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)

Location: Leicester
CRS: LEI / NLC: 1947 / TIPLOC(S): LESTER
Station Facility Owner: East Midlands Railway
OS Grid Ref: 459399 304158
Constituency: Leicester South
Local Authority: Leicester
NR Region: East Midlands
ELR: SPC5 99m 07ch

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Top 5 jouneys from Leicester during 2022/2023:
•London St Pancras International (457,174 journeys)
•Nottingham (265,286 journeys)
•Birmingham New Street (261,514 journeys)
•Loughborough (151,034 journeys)
•Derby (136,910 journeys)
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