Due to poor road links between Sheffield and Manchester, rail has always had a high market share. While business travel to London has collapsed and Sheffield is not much of a tourist destination so doesn't attract leisure trips from London to the same extent other northern cities do.
Unfortunately, on what you might call tertiary lines, it's more likely to be 65% or thereabouts. Take a look at the Far North Line for a good example.
If you spend more time at home, have lunch breaks at home, are at home at clocking off rather than ages later……you will have far more use for a car.
Dunno, lot live round there, and many would have arrived on buses/tube/DLR rather than trains.
Why?
One reason is that (some) people will move to bigger houses in places tha they find attractive and which are less accessible by public transport.
and the railways then face an uphill struggle for their business (though - to try to drag this post back on topic 
- luckily unlikely to be the case around Liverpool Street due to the slowness of driving and lack of parking)Because you will have more free time in close proximity to it, and will be further from shops/food than your office is.
Maybe, maybe not. Its equally likely that WFH makes it easier for families to drop from two cars to one, and it's not a given that one's home is further from the shops than one's workplace. Most primary schools are within walking distance of their entire catchment area and the reason that many people cite for driving the kids to school is that they need the car for their subsequent journey to work. If work is at home then you can just walk back home. "Will" is too definite a term, "may" would be better.
Stratford is popular for passengers from unbarriered stations in GA land travelling in from said station without a ticket and then touching into the oyster/contactless network to carry on their journey within London. Same on the return.
Very interesting - thanks.
Fascinating data and greatly appreciated.
That’s really useful
Or going Dore - Sheffield - Doncaster/Retford - Kings Cross which can sometimes be cheaper than using the EMR to St Pancras (and excluding engineering works closing the Midland Main Line).
Or maybe use the bus if it's more frequent than the hourly train?
The way journeys incorporating grouped stations are calculated (London, Birmingham, Manchester, etc.) is one of my gripes about the dataset. They seem to be calculated as a very rough percentage of overall journeys from the grouped station, and don't appear to take routing logic into account (someone travelling from Manchester to London Stns. is likely to be travelling to Euston and not Victoria). But as you say, these anomalies aside, it seems reasonably accurate, and it's always nice to come across a flow that you're entirely responsible for.
Well spotted - thank you! Will look into updating the list.
I would imagine most similarly-positioned stations would show a comparable result. Haven’t looked but am prepared to bet that Oldfield Park - Bath (0.75 miles) is dwarfed by Oldfield Park to Bristol (11 miles) - even allowing for the different sizes of the cities.
Its not just tertiary lines, its also true of many of the Southeasts mainlines, once you are an hour from London passenger figures fall off a cliff. Interestingly services that were largely independant of London Commuting like the Coastway lines have recovered well.
Which is an interesting one. Wouldn’t have thought that office-based commuting would have made up a large proportion of journeys there. Has Inverness lost attraction as a day out shopping destination?
