York railway station is the 44th busiest in the country.

During 2011/12 it had 7.5 million passenger movements an increase of 6% on the previous year.

There were over 1 million interchanges at the station – higher than average.

By comparison Leeds station had 25 million movements a 2% growth on the previous year.

The data has been published by The Guardian.

The lists reveal Waterloo as the busiest station with 94 million movements. Kings Cross had 27.8 million.

Busiest station outside the capital is Birmingham New Street (31 million)