The UK's most sleep deprived commuters revealed

Commuters across the country could be suffering from sleep deprivation, with an analysis of Britain’s busiest train stations indicating where workers are most likely to be yawning into their lattes.

The north-south divide may be diminishing, but the research by Direct Blinds found that sleep illuminates those divisions, with the south and London in particular, dominating the list when it came to tired out locations.

The sleep deprived index was collated by assessing the number of passengers passing through a station each day, the number of trains leaving a station at rush hour and the volume of passengers getting the earliest trains per station.

London Bridge Station was named as the most sleep deprived station, having the highest proportion of early trains across the UK. The research found that 42 trains leave during the rush hour period from 6.30am till 8.30 am - twice that of its nearest rival and over three times the most sleep deprived station outside London. Many passengers were found to be catching trains before 7.30am to get to work on time.