Unless any stations have a local human population of zero.With Crawley’s local borough population of 124,008 (as of 2021), Gatwick Airport has to be at the top with 21.2 million entries and exits!
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ORR estimates of station usage 2024/25
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Smallbrook junction?
Which makes it all the more impressive that the overall market from Cambridge (if you include Cambridge North) seems to have grown by about 800,000. It'll be fascinating to watch the impact that Camb South has when it eventually opens!
Alex365Dash
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…Alright, I’ll bite with a serious suggestion.
Being generous and using Brighton and Hove’s entire 2021 population for this at 277,200, having 15,328,450 entries and exits leads to an approximate of 55,297 single journeys per 10,000 people living there. (Yes, I did just make up that unit of measurement, but I do need something to go on.)
Considering the decent amount of tourism Brighton gets, I think that’s a good starting point…
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Failed Unit
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I find it interesting some of the destinations. If you look at Old Street, the most popular destination is Moorgate. Which is odd as I have never seen anyone do that journey deliberately by national rail (some do get on the train into Moorgate to get a seat for its return)
Likewise Farringdon’s is Liverpool St….
I know these things don’t matter,
Lincoln’s was London KX, which was a surprise (I was expecting Nottingham) and Grimsby Town has got Lincoln (but can still only get a service every two hours)
Likewise Farringdon’s is Liverpool St….
I know these things don’t matter,
Lincoln’s was London KX, which was a surprise (I was expecting Nottingham) and Grimsby Town has got Lincoln (but can still only get a service every two hours)
Sleepy
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The Chelmsford to Liverpool St. flow figures are certainly inflated by split tickets, the number of splits seen on Norwich "fast" journeys is steadily increasing. I wonder how much these flag up on TOC systems as potential short fare evaders from non- barried Essex stations as there isn't going to be any entry scans and many passengers think they must only show the portion relative to where train is in the journey to conductors.
Berney Arms.
Sleepy
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Who on earth bought season ticket to Berney Arms !?!
With Crawley’s local borough population of 124,008 (as of 2021), Gatwick Airport has to be at the top with 21.2 million entries and exits!
Surely it’s the City of London?
Returning with a serious suggestion of my own, I'd guess Shenfield would be high up. Shenfield itself only has a population of five thousand as far as I can tell, but 5.81 mn passenger entries / exits.
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Around 148 mn journeys for a place with nine thousand residents. Over 500,000 people were employed there in 2019, which would still mean ~296 journeys per year per person there.
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Sleepy
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It would have some travel to from larger catchment area for commuting due to more frequent service/faster journey times than say Ingatestone or Brentwood plus it being split point for Oyster/freedom pass etc. users.
D1537
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The "Interchanges" figure for Northallerton is shown as zero when there will quite clearly be a number occurring there...
As an opposite example, there were apparently two passengers changing at Penrith for every seven entering or exiting; even for cases like Lockerbie to Euston where changing there might be plausible, I'd be surprised if numbers are that high, especially there rather than at Carlisle, Lancaster or Preston.
D1537
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Split tickets?
The Elizabeth line growth is so impressive. Not just the existing stations (Ilford, Romford - both flying) - but the new ones: Canary Wharf (15), Custom House (10), Woolwich (13.7) and Abbey Wood (12) - it's incredible.
Ealing and especially Hayes growth is massive too. Southall too. And Hanwell vs the past is impressive. West Ealing and Acton ML I thought would be higher.
I am curious on some of the tube interchange and delineation. Also ticketing.
Two examples - Queens Park shows zero interchanges which is clearly not true, and shows the busest pair as being Wembley Central - I would be positive that if NR only, that would be Euston. Similarly, Vauxhall shows zero interchanges (lunacy) and Wimbledon as the pairing, not Waterloo.
Do these in fact reference tube changes (e.g. Wimbledon to Vic line, Wembley Central LO onto Bakerloo at QP?) - any context here?
Ealing and especially Hayes growth is massive too. Southall too. And Hanwell vs the past is impressive. West Ealing and Acton ML I thought would be higher.
I am curious on some of the tube interchange and delineation. Also ticketing.
Two examples - Queens Park shows zero interchanges which is clearly not true, and shows the busest pair as being Wembley Central - I would be positive that if NR only, that would be Euston. Similarly, Vauxhall shows zero interchanges (lunacy) and Wimbledon as the pairing, not Waterloo.
Do these in fact reference tube changes (e.g. Wimbledon to Vic line, Wembley Central LO onto Bakerloo at QP?) - any context here?
Llanfairfechan is a case in point. It's not significantly any more or less busy than Penmaenmawr (the older data has the two roughly level-pegging and my personal observation says that this hasn't changed much). However while both have grown significantly post-pandemic, Llanfairfechan now claims double the patronage of Penmaenmawr. It happens to be on the edge of the Llandudno Junction cluster, which means that Bangor-Llanfairfechan-Chester is a popular split for those returning on the same day.
Conwy however has grown dramatically since the pandemic and I don't think that I've ever seen a ticket split there, that's got to be down to increased tourist traffic. The establishment of a regular service rather than the patchy one which exists at present should act as a catalyst for further growth from May. Likewise Llandudno (branch terminus so splitting is impossible) has grown significantly.
The other station on the edge of the Llandudno Junction cluster is Dolgarrog. I've seen a few splits there too, but there is definitely quite a bit more local traffic following the withdrawal of most bus services on the route and the establishment of an official footpath over the river to the namesake village. However, there has also been healthy growth on many stations along the Conwy Valley and I'm not seeing those stations used as splitting points. Interesting to note that the more touristy destinations like Betws have had their best year on record, patronage at stations that see mostly resident traffic was higher in the 1990s before the school traffic was lost to road.
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Provide a decent service and people will use it.
Perhaps the full introduction of the 197s has helped boost passenger numbers on the north Wales coast and Conwy Valley lines?
Assuming that the much improved north Wales coast timetable along with hourly Liverpool-Llandudno trains will actually be implemented in May 2026 then numbers should increase still further…?
Yes, the station usage and origin destination flows are aiming to estimate NR usage only. Counts are not provided in this dataset for any underground only stations. Transferring to underground from NR counts as an exit/entry not an interchange. A change for this year (but hasn't impacted the examples you quote) is for contactless journeys between two NR stations with an underground leg in between is to count as two rail journeys so that origin/destination reflects how the rail network is used. This adds 16.5m passenger journeys across the national rail network.
From the previous years 2023/24 figure, around double the number of passengers went Wimbledon to Vauxhall (either to Victoria line or leaving the station entirely) than Vauxhall to Waterloo. Wembley Central can imagine people will take the first train and change if needed at Queens Park if they want the Bakerloo. Based on the LU station usage would be roughly one in seven Bakerloo users from that station ride a LO train then change (or vice versa for other direction) which sounds plausible.
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Well when I lived in SW London and worked at Vauxhall I often would go Vauxhall-Waterloo and then Waterloo - Kingston/Surbiton so I could get a seat. I also often went Waterloo - Vauxhall having got a fast train from Surbiton to Waterloo rather than wait 30 mins for the half hourly peak Hampton Court stopping service. There were quite a few fellow passengers doing the Waterloo - Vauxhall journey too. Not sure I've ever changed between national rail services at Vauxhall - but may have done as I have often taken the first suburban train out of Waterloo (or one where I could get a seat) and changed to a Kingston train at one of the intermediate stations up to Raynes Park.
Good one!With Crawley’s local borough population of 124,008 (as of 2021), Gatwick Airport has to be at the top with 21.2 million entries and exits!
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Surely that also has originating / destination figures of zero as its interchange only?
St Albans is the only one of these that is a tourist destination. Easy day out from London. I’ve done it!
Farigiraf
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The steam railway is not part of National Rail, so Island Line to IoWSR transfers are counted as exiting the station.
If you were to do a day trip from e.g. Sandown to Wootton, you'd buy a return to Smallbrook and then a separate ticket for the steam railway. This would count towards the entries/exits stats, rather than the interchange stats. 8978 people made this connection last year - that's around 45 passengers per day if you divide by approximately how many days a year the station is open.
True - hadn’t thought of it that way, even though it’s still purely a statistical quirk. Anyway, I presume that the parish /administrative area in which Snallbrook Junction lies does have a population so the point is moot.
H F Stephens
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Newcastle and Morpeth should both be seeing origin and destination increases from Lumo, whose services began in 2021.
Newcastle will also be seeing some effect (in addition to that associated with CrossCountry) from splitting between Lumo and other operators there, for overall journeys which will generally require split tickets, as opposed to splitting merely offering a cost saving to the ‘savvy’.
Apart from the Warner Bros studio bus from Watford Junction (and shopping, if less than before John Lewis closed).
In another possible example of "build it and they will come" although it is building a service rather than infrastructure. Spondon which used to have a peak time only service but has now gone to every 2 hours with peak extras. The passenger numbers have gone from 8 thousand to 47 thousand.
It will.be interesting to see what happens next year as from next week it is going hourly including Sundays whereas at the moment there is no Sunday service at all.
It will.be interesting to see what happens next year as from next week it is going hourly including Sundays whereas at the moment there is no Sunday service at all.
Although for the “Lumo” splits, the usage figures are at least semi genuine as passengers will be using Newcastle station (even if only as an interchange rather than as a destination)
Another fantastic year for Corby where numbers are now up to 600,000, or roughly double the plateau that was reached before the introduction of EMR Connect. Wellingborough's numbers are also back to pre-Covid levels, suggesting that the fire and brimstone predictions when the Intercity calls were removed haven't come to pass!
Snow1964
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Massive growth in South West, some examples from fabulous Jupp map and data
Examples of averaging growth per year over about 25 years
Pinhoe 16.25%
Clifton Down 9.19%
St Earth 9.00%
Worle 8.36%
St Ives 7.56%
Crediton 7.55%
Dawlish Warren 7.32%
Keynsham 6.72%
Cam and Dursley 6.15%
Falmouth Town 5.96%
Bridgewater 5.52%
Torre 5.47%
Frome 5.28%
Tiverton Parkway 5.22%
Par 5.11%
Barnstaple 4.96%
If these rates continue could be needing 30+% more capacity in 4-5 years, but project Churchward (or whatever it is formally now called) probably won't deliver until 6-7 years, so what will be interim solution?
Examples of averaging growth per year over about 25 years
Pinhoe 16.25%
Clifton Down 9.19%
St Earth 9.00%
Worle 8.36%
St Ives 7.56%
Crediton 7.55%
Dawlish Warren 7.32%
Keynsham 6.72%
Cam and Dursley 6.15%
Falmouth Town 5.96%
Bridgewater 5.52%
Torre 5.47%
Frome 5.28%
Tiverton Parkway 5.22%
Par 5.11%
Barnstaple 4.96%
If these rates continue could be needing 30+% more capacity in 4-5 years, but project Churchward (or whatever it is formally now called) probably won't deliver until 6-7 years, so what will be interim solution?
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