Trends · data through July 2026

Train Stations in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 496 stores from 466 train stations chains in the United Kingdom. Birmingham grew fastest over the last year, ahead of London Underground and Heathrow Express.

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
466
Tracked stores
496
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked train stations 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 London Underground sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Birmingham - +12.1%
2 L London Underground - -9.6%
3 H Heathrow Express - -11.6%
4 V Victoria - -15.4%
5 S Southern Railway - -19.6%
  • London Underground
  • Tottenham Hale Station
  • Southern Railway
  • Harpenden Train Station
  • GWR Reading WST To
  • GWR Lond Padd SST
  • Victoria
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • London Underground (9)
  • Tottenham Hale Station (1)
  • Southern Railway (7)
  • Harpenden Train Station (1)
  • GWR Reading WST To (1)
  • GWR Lond Padd SST (1)
  • Victoria (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 L London Underground 9
  • 2 S Southern Railway 7
  • 3 V Victoria 4
  • 4 B Birmingham 3
  • 5 H Heathrow Express 3
  • 6 W West Drayton 2
  • 7 I Isle of Wight Steam Railway 2
  • 8 S South West Trains 2
  • 9 D Duke Street 2
  • 10 C Cricklewood 2
  • 11 W West Midlands Metro 2
  • 12 C Clapham Junction 2
  • 13 L Liverpool South Parkway 2
  • 14 I Ilford Station 2
  • 15 B Brecon Mountain Railway 1
  • 16 A Alderley Edge railway station 1
  • 17 C Cherry Willingham 1
  • 18 D Dalgety Bay 1
  • 19 H Hunts Cross 1
  • 20 S Stratford Station 1
  • 21 T Transport For London-Tottenham Court Road Underground Station 1
  • 22 B Brookwood Railway Station 1
  • 23 W Wakefield Westgate 1
  • 24 P Prescot 1
  • 25 H Humberstone Road railway station 1
  • 26 S Shenfield Train Station 1
  • 27 L Leytonstone Tube Station 1
  • 28 T Tempsford railway station 1
  • 29 L Liverpool Street Station 1
  • 30 G Great Central Railway 1
  • 31 C Corkickle railway station 1
  • 32 C Columbia 1
  • 33 W Waltham Cross Railway Station 1
  • 34 B Birmingham New Station 1
  • 35 T Tottenham Hale Station 1
  • 36 O Oxenholme 1
  • 37 H Hamilton West Railway Station 1
  • 38 N Nailsea & Backwell Railway Station 1
  • 39 C Chippenham Station 1
  • 40 E Euston 1
  • 41 K Knutsford Railway Station 1
  • 42 N New Milton Railway Station 1
  • 43 D Dunston Train Station 1
  • 44 A Ammanford Railway Station 1
  • 45 B Brimsdown 1
  • 46 R Rugby Railway Station 1
  • 47 C Coventry 1
  • 48 M Manchester Victoria Station 1
  • 49 L Littleborough Station 1
  • 50 H Heathrow Rail Link 1

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