Ah touché, I hadn't thought of that!Probably a popular destination by dodgers buying to/from the first station in order to bypass the barriers at Piccadilly
Ah touché, I hadn't thought of that!Probably a popular destination by dodgers buying to/from the first station in order to bypass the barriers at Piccadilly
Breich got an hourly service, so its passengers usage went up to 2,550.
Always surprised to see Ardwick not in the top ten.
Probably a popular destination by dodgers buying to/from the first station in order to bypass the barriers at Piccadilly
Ah touché, I hadn't thought of that!
Would anyone really be so dumb as to claim to have travelled in from Ardwick at the Piccadilly ticket barriers. Other than the two morning peak services, there aren't any other trains that call inbound there during the rest of the day.
Wouldn't be surprised if someone has been dumb enough to try it.
The addition of estimates for journeys to/from Heathrow stations this year accounts for around 4k additional entries and exits at this station." |
"Closures in 2020 on part of Marston Vale line due to issues with level crossings" |
"December 2019 timetable improved long distance journey times" |
"May 2019 timetable change introduced hourly service between Sheffield and Gainsborough Central." |
I'm intrigued by some of the reasons
Greenford -"
The addition of estimates for journeys to/from Heathrow stations this year accounts for around 4k additional entries and exits at this station."
Millbrook (Hants)
"Closures in 2020 on part of Marston Vale line due to issues with level crossings"
Falmouth Docks
Kirton Lindsey and Brigg
"December 2019 timetable improved long distance journey times"
"May 2019 timetable change introduced hourly service between Sheffield and Gainsborough Central."
I suspect whoever has done it has noted the hourly Sheffield - Gainsborough service, known that Kirton & Brigg are on the same line and thought that the hourly service also serves those to justify the increase which as you say is far more likely going to be down to the reintroduction of services following the strikes.No idea for Kirton & Brigg, if an increase most likely down to strike recovery (as those stations went unserved in the last period due to the strike about who gets to press the door opening button)
Moorfields has 38 trains per hour calling at it from 0700-1900Gosh, the cinderella station of Moorfields above Birmingham Moor Street, Woking and nearly St. Albans City.
And yet one of its two entrances is still locked up at 7pm!Moorfields has 38 trains per hour calling at it from 0700-1900
This is something I do every year to keep my various IT skills up to date. There are a few formatting errors (any Scottish station and any with an & in the name, for example) because of the way the text is encoded, but it broadly does what I created it for. Trouble is, I only look at it once a year and thus never fix my errors
It will be very interesting to see the numbers for next full year now that Lelant Saltings only gets one service each way per day.
I've also noticed a remark for South Yorkshire stations about a change of methodology in that some ticket types that were previously excluded have been included this year. It doesn't say what tickets but I'm assuming it is the South Yorkshire Travelmaster ticket range that includes all buses, trams and trains in the county.When looking at the statistics from March 2019 to February 2020, Deansgate got a huge increase from 456,140 to 1,323,150 with the reason for this being a methodological change which caused such a large change.
Does anyone know what the methodoligical change would be? It just mentions count splits in the spreadsheet?
Is it also possible that there may have been a large passenger increase at Deansgate station anyway?
I would imagine that anybody doing this would already have the ticket, rather than making the claim when paying at the excess fares desks. Don't really want to say more than that but even as a lay person I am aware of ways in which the revenue if they are so inclined could easily pull said people.Would anyone really be so dumb as to claim to have travelled in from Ardwick at the Piccadilly ticket barriers. Other than the two morning peak services, there aren't any other trains that call inbound there during the rest of the day.
I'm astonished to see Stratford now in the top ten stations for entries and exits. (For those unfamiliar with the station, it is possible to change there from National Rail to London Underground without going through ticket barriers which is not the case at London's termini) That more people go through the barriers at Stratford than at Kings Cross is startling. I've long been aware that Stratford is an intensely busy interchange station but I didn't realise it had so many entries and exits.
Lot of work put in, much appreciated, good details. One issue I do have with a lot of modern web mapping is that often even the passenger rail network is not shown. In this case it appears if you zoom in, but often gets lost in large populated areas. Great work on showing train operator, links and historic data. The mapping is also a great help to understand the data in the rail usage stats, relating to geography, and land use, and proximity of other stations. Good point by Merle Haggard.This is something I do every year to keep my various IT skills up to date. There are a few formatting errors (any Scottish station and any with an & in the name, for example) because of the way the text is encoded, but it broadly does what I created it for. Trouble is, I only look at it once a year and thus never fix my errors
That's really useful, thank you, much easier to use than the official one.
What it also shows, very dramatically (once expanded!) is how un-even the distribution of railway stations is. There are areas all over the country with few or no stations, and others where there are many close together. Obviously, this is a result of all the events from the Railway Mania to Beeching, and topography and population were obviously also important factors; but it does clearly show how random the likelihood of population being near to a railhead is now.
Lot of work put in, much appreciated, good details. One issue I do have with a lot of modern web mapping is that often even the passenger rail network is not shown. In this case it appears if you zoom in, but often gets lost in large populated areas. Great work on showing train operator, links and historic data. The mapping is also a great help to understand the data in the rail usage stats, relating to geography, and land use, and proximity of other stations. Good point by Merle Haggard.
Thank You. As a map its really easy to use.This is something I do every year to keep my various IT skills up to date. There are a few formatting errors (any Scottish station and any with an & in the name, for example) because of the way the text is encoded, but it broadly does what I created it for. Trouble is, I only look at it once a year and thus never fix my errors
I wouldn't set too much store by that figure for interchanges*, though the entries and exits figure bears out local observations of the number of cars that were being parked there on weekdays in the few weeks before lockdown No 1 began - 100+ pretty much from the off.Worcestershire Parkway
11,798 people used it in the seven days from opening to end of Feb
13,680 people used it in March
63,915 people used it for interchanges between 23 Feb and 31 March, which is 2.5x the number of entries and exits.
Can anyone local give a perspective of these figures off their own personal experience. We are talking nearly 1,700 people per day interchanging at this brand new station.
I would imagine a mixture of some/all of the following:Is there a specific criteria a station has to fall under before being considered for possible closure?
No. And 999 times out of 1,000 it is not worth the legal hassle of going down that route.Is there a specific criteria a station has to fall under before being considered for possible closure?
Is there a specific criteria a station has to fall under before being considered for possible closure?
I found Wellingborough interesting; only a slight (3%) increase over the last ten years, with the suggestion of recent decline.
In the future, it will be interesting to see the effect of electrification, which means changing for any Northbound journey at Kettering & slightly slower southbound. We'll be able to see the 'Sparks Effect' - usually, this is claimed for newly electrified services when, usually, the immediately-prior service had been reduced from the normal because of the engineering work to carry out electrification, enhancing the effect. This has not happened to any great extent on this part of the MML.
No. And 999 times out of 1,000 it is not worth the legal hassle of going down that route.