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How busy is Waterloo Station?
Waterloo is consistently the UK's busiest railway station, handling millions of passenger entries and exits annually (over 57 million in 2022-23). An incident like the one near Woking, which closed lines into Waterloo, therefore causes massive disruption across the network, affecting thousands of commuters.
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