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Statistics of annual passengers carried by railway line?

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Probably only possible if you have access to lennon as its not in the public domain I think.

The only thing is the annual station figures really.
 

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What do you mean by ‘line’? Figures by station and by (franchised) operator and by region are published annually by the ORR.
 

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Breckland Line etc? There is no other interpretation.

It’s difficult to predict passengers by station as some of the Terminus stations have multiple lines.
The usual answer when people have asked about specific lines or origin/destination pairs is that it isn’t made available for commercial reasons.
 

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You misunderstand. I merely offered a solution. If you want details of every Norwich to Brandon, Wymondam to Attleborough, Carmarthen to Eccles Road journey, ad infinitude then good luck.

Don’t be rude
 

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I suspect that statistics for originating / terminating tickets at each station are easily obtained from the ticket machine system(s), and hence can be published and be reasonably accurate. Presumably use by rover type tickets is ignored, as there is no way of telling what journeys were actually made.
Producing statistics for the use of each line would require far more work (determining which line was used for each ticket) and not very accurate due to the multiple routes that could be used on many tickets. Hence why such statistics are not produced?
 

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Some Community rail partnerships publish journey statistics in their annual report. I don’t know if the line in question is part of one but maybe check the CRP’s annual report or similar details.
 

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Yeah they tend to do their own sample passenger counts over a day or two to provide evidence for their policies/campaigns.
As said actual line statistics are commercially sensitive as its used for determining pricing.
The station usage statistics are published by ORR as its data that TOC's couldn't readily generate alone and is useful for tracking long term trends in demand and planning additional infrastructure capacity accordingly as well as being a useful indicator to track the economic performance of an location/region.
 

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Yeah they tend to do their own sample passenger counts over a day or two to provide evidence for their policies/campaigns.
CRPs don’t really “campaign,” you may be thinking of line user groups or similar. The usual purpose of counts that they may conduct is to show to stakeholders such as the train operating companies, DfT and local authorities who provide their funding that they are working and delivering results from the public and private money that is put in to them.

As said actual line statistics are commercially sensitive as its used for determining pricing.
The Tocs who are members of CRPs usually provide Lennon data and do not usually object to this being published, at a very high level usually (eg. just annual passenger numbers not broken down any further). For instance see page 10 (page 6 of the PDF) of Severnside CRP’s report from this year: https://www.severnside-rail.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Progress-Report-2019.pdf
 
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