In article , Tim Roll-Pickering
writes
The busiest station in 1927 was Charing Cross with over 33 million
passengers (including interchange traffic between different lines).
I presume this is the one now called Embankment.

Yes.

Any reason why this one
should have been so busy?

A combination of two factors.

Firstly, it's the interchange station for Charing Cross main line
station (Trafalgar Square is further away and Strand had poorer access
from street to platforms). Secondly, at this time Charing Cross was the
*only* connection between the southern side of the Circle and the
north-south lines (unless you go as far west as South Kensington). As a
result, traffic between Victoria and Oxford Street, or between
Blackfriars and Tottenham Court Road, or Waterloo and Sloane Square,
would all be changing lines here.

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