Trends · data through September 2026

Train Stations in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 699 stores from 572 train station chains in the United Kingdom. Birmingham grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Victoria and Greater Anglia.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
572
Tracked stores
699
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked train station chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Birmingham and Victoria sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Birmingham ▲2 +10.4%
2 V Victoria ▲2 +10.0%
3 G Greater Anglia ▲1 +8.9%
4 N Network Rail logo Network Rail - -4.4%
5 E East Midlands Trains - -15.5%
6 G Great Western Railway - -16.3%
7 S Southern Railway logo Southern Railway ▼1 -19.6%
8 S South Western Railway - -19.7%
9 T Thameslink - -22.6%
10 S Southern ▼2 -23.8%
11 G Great Northern ▼2 -26.6%
  • Southeastern
  • Tottenham Hale Station
  • Greater Anglia
  • Southern Railway
  • Network Rail
  • South Western Railway
  • Thameslink
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

699 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Southeastern (11)
  • Tottenham Hale Station (1)
  • Greater Anglia (10)
  • Southern Railway (7)
  • Network Rail (5)
  • South Western Railway (21)
  • Thameslink (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 S South Western Railway 21
  • 2 G Great Western Railway 18
  • 3 T Transport for Wales logo Transport for Wales 13
  • 4 S Southeastern logo Southeastern 11
  • 5 G Greater Anglia 10
  • 6 S Southern 9
  • 7 S Southern Railway logo Southern Railway 7
  • 8 G Great Northern 7
  • 9 E East Midlands Trains 5
  • 10 N Network Rail logo Network Rail 5
  • 11 T Thameslink 5
  • 12 B Birmingham 4
  • 13 V Victoria 4
  • 14 N Newport logo Newport 2
  • 15 C Cricklewood 2
  • 16 W Watercress Line 2
  • 17 W West Drayton 2
  • 18 L Liverpool South Parkway 2
  • 19 W West Midlands Metro logo West Midlands Metro 2
  • 20 D Duke Street 2
  • 21 C Clapham Junction 2
  • 22 I Isle of Wight Steam Railway 2
  • 23 W Wood Green logo Wood Green 2
  • 24 I Ilford Station 2
  • 25 C Crowborough 1
  • 26 D Dagenham East tube station 1
  • 27 T Twickenham Station 1
  • 28 H Handforth Railway Station 1
  • 29 S Selby 1
  • 30 C Cherry Willingham 1
  • 31 R Rugby Railway Station 1
  • 32 W Waltham Cross Railway Station 1
  • 33 S Sutton Coldfield Train Station 1
  • 34 S Streatham Hill 1
  • 35 M Manchester Victoria Station 1
  • 36 E Euston 1
  • 37 A Ammanford Railway Station 1
  • 38 C Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon Railway Station 1
  • 39 G Great Central Railway 1
  • 40 H Heathrow Rail Link 1
  • 41 H Hemel Hempstead Railway Station 1
  • 42 H Hounslow East 1
  • 43 B Bromley North 1
  • 44 M Metheringham 1
  • 45 T Transport For London-Tottenham Court Road Underground Station 1
  • 46 L Leytonstone Tube Station 1
  • 47 D Ditton Mill Railway Station 1
  • 48 O Oxenholme 1
  • 49 H Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 Station 1
  • 50 E Elephant & Castle Station 1

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