Walthamstow Central is the most ‘dangerous’ station in the borough, with 57 injuries recorded between 2022 and 2025, reports Marco Marcelline
Over 10,000 injuries were recorded on Transport for London (TfL) underground network between 2022 and 2025, causing the organisation to pay out millions in compensation.
According to data obtained via Freedom of Information requests by Personal Injury Solicitors London, 3,275 injuries were reported across the tube network during the 2022/23 tax year, with 3,631 logged in 2023/24 and 3,567 in 2024/25 – making for a total of 10,473 injuries over those three years.
The London Underground station with the largest number of injury reports was Waterloo, which according to data published by TfL in October 2025, is the busiest of the Tube stations by number of entries and exits.
Between 2022/23 and 2024/25, the Underground station recorded 471 injuries, with 176 of those occurring in 2024/25. The claims received by Transport for London covered a wide range of injuries, with the most common category being slips, trips and falls, accounting for 6,847 of the transport network’s injury reports between 2022/23 and 2024/25.
In Waltham Forest, Walthamstow Central was the worst-affected station, recording 57 injuries in the past three years, while Leyton reported 42 and Blackhorse Road 33. Leytonstone had the least injuries reported out of all Waltham Forest underground stations, with 29 reports from 2022 to 2025.
Most injuries took place on station escalators, with a total of 4,585 reported to have taken place on one.
1,382 reports from the past three tax years list stairs as the site of injury, while station platforms were recorded as the site of 1,274 injuries.
A TfL spokesperson said: “The safety of our customers and staff is always our top priority and we have a comprehensive programme of work aimed at making travelling on our network even safer as we work towards the Mayor’s aim of eliminating deaths and serious injuries from the transport network by 2041.
“We safely carry millions of tube and rail customers each day, and are working to become even safer through targeted action on higher risk areas such as boarding and alighting trains, or using stairs and escalators.”
In July 2025, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan reaffirmed his commitment to transport safety, stating that it would be addressed in the forthcoming Vision Zero Action Plan 2.
He told Mayor’s Question Time: “I am committed to Vision Zero and the elimination of all deaths and serious injuries from London’s transport network by 2041.”
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