Britain's quietest train station - with just 24 passengers a YEAR

Imagine a train station where you never have to queue or push through crowds to get on to the platform.

Amazingly such a place exists – Barry Links station in Angus, Scotland – officially Britain’s least used train station.

New figures show just 24 passengers travelled from Barry Links n 2016/17, according to data published by the Office of Rail and Road.

The station is located on the line between Carnoustie – which hosts golf’s Open Championship next year – and Dundee.

It is served by just one ScotRail train a day in each direction, Monday to Saturday.

The station does not have a ticket office, ticket machines, toilet or CCTV, and is unstaffed.

The two passengers who enter or exit the station on average each month can use bicycle parking facilities.

By contrast, Britain’s busiest railways stations are more crowded than ever, according to the same figures.

London Waterloo maintained its title as the country’s busiest station for the 14th consecutive year, according to the Office of Rail and Road, with some 99.4 million passengers used the station in the past year.

That was up by more than 250,000 on passenger numbers in 2015/16.

The Office of Rail and Road also found that the five busiest stations in the UK were all based in London.

As well as Waterloo, there were numbers of passengers using other well-known stations including Victoria, where 75.9 million passed through between 2016/17.

And in the City, Liverpool Street had more than 67 million passengers in the same period.

London Bridge and Euston had more than 40 million passengers.

The first non-London station in the busiest list was Birmingham New Streety with more than 42 million users.