Shippea Hill has been recorded as one of the least-used railway stations in Britain. According to Office of Rail and Road estimates, it was the least-used railway station in 2014/15 (with 22 passengers) and 2015/16 (12 passengers). In 2016/17 there was an increase to 156 passengers. This trend has continued in subsequent years, to a recent record of 432 passengers in 2018/19. Due to its unusual status, it sometimes attracts attempts to boost its numbers. In December 2016, a finalist from "The Great British Bake Off" attracted at least 16 people to the station by handing out free mince pies., In June 2019, the Odd Socks, a society at the University of Cambridge, hosted a Garden Party at the station. 71 members of the Society and their guests, all students at the university, gathered on platform 2 for dancing and drinks before returning by train to Cambridge. These increases in passenger numbers, from the 2016/17 reporting, may have been due, in no small part, to Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe via their YouTube channel, 'All The Stations', which currently, in 2021, has over 80,300 subscribers. On the 7th May 2017, Marshall & Pipe set off from Penzance to visit all 2567 currently operating (circa 2017) railway stations in Great Britain. In Episode 17 of their quest, on 3rd June 2017, they started their day at Shippea Hill and with a group of their friends plus three genuine passengers, they almost doubled the entire previous years total of 12 passengers in one day. After the video was published, Shippea Hill's passenger numbers spiked.