Liverpool Street Station, London, and Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, have for long been famed as the world's two busiest passenger termini. Improvement works now being put in hand on the suburban tracks of the London and North Eastern line, between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, 25 miles distant, promise to bring in and out of the immense London terminus a greatly increased passenger traffic, and so our Australian friends will have to look to their laurels.

Of all Home railway stations, Liverpool Street handles the densest passenger business, under steam operating conditions. The station is situated on the eastern side of the capital, adjacent to the main business centres. In addition to a tremendously heavy suburban traffic, Liverpool Street is the hub of many important trunk services, including the well-known Royal Mail continental route via Harwich.

The biggest work being put in hand in the Liverpool Street area is the conversion from steam to electricity of the suburban tracks out as far as Shenfield, in Essex. At the present time something like 1,260 trains, conveying about 230,000 passengers, are dealt with daily at Liverpool Street. With the coming of electrification, the daily number of trains handled will probably be in the neighbourhood of 1,500. Considerable staff adjustments will be necessary in the new electrified area. At present Liverpool Street is in charge of a station master, with two assistants. Next come seven inspectors, fourteen station foremen, and a total personnel of about 400, this figure including 63 ticket collectors and 90 platform porters. A wonderfully well-organised station, Liverpool Street, prior to grouping, was the headquarters terminus of the old Great Eastern line.