TOCs' passenger loading data on Rail Data Marketplace

[HerneHill]

Thought I'd share this here since I haven't seen a thread about it yet - TOCs are now publishing their passenger loadings data by service and station stop on the Rail Data Marketplace. (anyone should be able to create an account on the platform to download the data simply using an email address)

The TOCs that have published data so far are -
Northern
TPE
Chiltern
GTR
Southeastern
GA (although theirs seem to be restricted to "DfT / HM Gov only" for the time being...)

Apologies if there is already another thread discussing this, please feel free to delete if so.

Otherwise enjoy playing with the data!

 

[Msq71423]

Tried registering but have to wait 3 days for approval. Are there any interesting insights anyone can provide in the meantime?

 

[Adam Williams]

Is this data that was already in Darwin?

 

[HerneHill]

Is this data that was already in Darwin?

Not quite - Darwin only provides % or red-amber-green passenger loading indicators for the latest point in time (that the TOC updates the data for), whereas the RDM datasets show a historical time series view of absolute numbers so you can analyse trends etc.

Tried registering but have to wait 3 days for approval. Are there any interesting insights anyone can provide in the meantime?

I brought these here immediately after catching wind of it, haven’t got the time yet but will look to explore the data soon!

 

[ThisIsSurbiton]

Darwin only provides % or red-amber-green passenger loading indicators for the latest point in time

There's also the "historic" average loading as a percentage per stop. And Darwin takes that from files that are/were also available to the public from Amazon AWS storage, but that was still percentages so is this something else again?

 

[Horizon22]

There's also the "historic" average loading as a percentage per stop. And Darwin takes that from files that are/were also available to the public from Amazon AWS storage, but that was still percentages so is this something else again?

Most modern stock can provide loading data by weight on a real-time basis, which is available to operators on some separate systems, but most TOCs do not have that within the public domain (i.e Darwin).

 

[evergreenadam]

Not quite - Darwin only provides % or red-amber-green passenger loading indicators for the latest point in time (that the TOC updates the data for), whereas the RDM datasets show a historical time series view of absolute numbers so you can analyse trends etc.


I brought these here immediately after catching wind of it, haven’t got the time yet but will look to explore the data soon!

I tried registering and never got a reply.