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http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates

The usage figures for 2013/4 have been published today on the ORR website, for those of us who are statistically minded.

Thanks, John

I've done a quick filter ....
FGW stations, entrances and exits, at http://www.wellho.net/data/fgw2014.txt
Whole country, entrances and exits, at http://www.wellho.net/data/ee2014.txt

Graphs, charts, etc to be updated - these figures are out about 3 months earlier than in previous years!

and with usage figure annually right back to 2004-2005 at http://www.wellho.net/data/rstats2014.xyz

Note - new stations opened in the year in question not yet included

Wow - some large % increases on the London terminals.
Over the past 10 years an increase of 58% at Waterloo and 69% at Victoria.
Waterloo not far shy of nearly 100m in and outs a year, compared to 62m in 2004.
The good old Doctor was right on that one ....... :D :-X

Coombe station = 42 ?!?!

Castle Cary seems to be missing from official list.

There's Castle Bar Park  then Castleton

Check out Tesside Airport - supposedly the lowest figure!??

It is there in both sets of data! I had the same problem with some other stations until I sorted by station name - the listing supplied by Graham is sorted by station code, which produces a different order to sorting by long name. Anyway, the numbers you're looking for are:

CLC   244846   Castle Cary

I noticed that too. It appears to be correct, it has only 2 services a week that call on Sundays and is a 15 minute walk from the airport site according to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teesside_Airport_railway_station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teesside_Airport_railway_station)

Goodness me. Hanborough has really pulled ahead of Kingham...

Indeed, Richard.

Hanborough up almost 30000 to over 200000 in total, now far ahead of Kingham and not too shy of Moreton-In-Marsh.  No doubt largely due to the car parking increase.  More reasons not to reduce calls there to run these Cotswold Line expresses that keep getting mentioned on here!

Much improved analysis as to possible reasons for large increases/decreases which is good to see.

Interested in there being an estimated nearly half a million interchanges estimated at Didcot and Maidenhead, and only half of that at Oxford.

Even fewer than Pilning - it must be bad!

I notice that Tilehurst - a station I know well has over half a million customers.
Compared with Goring and Streatley with under 400K.

Both have/are recovering a new footbridge as part of the electrification work.

But Tilehurst has no lifts - Goring will
Tilehurst has one ticket machine exposed to the elements and impossible to use when raining - Goring has several.
Tilehurst up relief has no platform canopy - hence the scrum from the footbridge to train in wet weather - Goring does.

How do these decisions fir investment get made !!!

Cost/ease of instalation, I imagine

Lobbying and affluence of the area might also be factors.  Not sure whether Tilehurst's figures might be slighly higher than they actually are due to unpaid fares at Reading, given that it's the cheapest fare to Reading - with the exception of Reading West which also has a suspiciously high figure!

More stats - highest growth in percentage terms

ECP - 15938 Energlyn & Churchill Park
STY - 34996 Stratford Pkway
CBD 3788 18114 Conon Bridge
DAK 21506 100360 Dalmarnock
OMS 727620 2058604 Ormskirk
SBK 4704 12544 South Bank
SDL 471804 1250086 Sandhills
LSP 740414 1785444 Liverpool South Parkway
TWN 141760 337112 Town Green
CLP 461490 1088500 Clapham High Street
KIL 62 144 Kildonan
ELO 72 166 Elton & Orston
AUG 78136 179740 Aughton Park
STM 387532 873112 St.Michaels
HOZ 51326 112720 Howwood
AUI 2216 4566 Ardlui
INE 460 944 Ince & Elton
FOC 244 498 Falls Of Cruachan
WSA 45966 92710 West Allerton
MKM 12080 23930 Melksham
LNG 5086 10044 Longcross
BRL 5712 11214 Barrhill
DGL 30490 59562 Dingle Road
WAO 141182 269260 Walton (Merseyside)
RWC 170 314 Rawcliffe
BER 670 1220 Bearley
BLO 2770 5002 Blaydon
LHW 106038 191152 Lochwinnoch
BCG 19214 33974 Birchgrove
CPU 108088 189510 Capenhurst
WWR 312730 547786 Wandsworth Road
MEN 2324 4064 Menheniot
WLO 856588 1476604 Waterloo (Merseyside)
PLN 28000 48174 Portlethen
BAC 187208 321052 Bache

And those with the biggest percentage drops

TNN 146856 105848 Thorne North
BOM 823694 586486 Bromborough
SWO 10664 7556 Snowdown
TAL 9942 7026 Talsarnau
PEG 1650 1166 Pegswood
AFV 59344 41812 Ansdell & Fairhaven
TYG 1938 1364 Tygwyn
PTM 76428 53040 Porthmadog
HLC 1192148 826406 Helensburgh Central
PWL 44520 30652 Pwllheli
ERA 469566 320422 Eastham Rake
DCG 784 534 Duncraig
WBD 1270 864 Whitley Bridge
PIL 130 88 Pilning
MEO 587114 396338 Meols
LSW 889718 600078 Leasowe
HFS 103018 69454 Hatfield & Stainforth
CNP 1591048 1061434 Conway Park
MDL 27572 18340 Middlewood
KTL 186 120 Kirton Lindsey
MEX 312454 200556 Mexborough
TNS 129736 82196 Thorne South
GNL 665448 418966 Green Lane
BRC 102 64 Breich
BYS 1046 620 Braystones
KKS 161326 95100 Kirk Sandall
IBM 122590 71128 IBM
LLA 3928 2238 Llanaber
DTN 194 110 Denton
HBB 590 334 Hubberts Bridge
BLV 18350 10122 Belle Vue
ABC 296 138 Altnabreac
DLH 28102 8166 Doleham
SPP 50 12 Shippea Hill
RDS 122 26 Reddish South

These stations were all closed for a large part of the year due to the problems on the Cambrian Coast line so a large percentage drop is only to be expected.  Since they have only just reopened I do not expect much change in the 2014/15 figures.

.xyz is not a file extension that either I or Microsoft recognise so what program do I need to open this file then?

It's a plain text file.   We use that extension for data files that we don't want to be opened by a default application but rather saved / offered as 'unknown' for programatic use on our training courses.

Possibly the same argument for Earley station too.

For anyone who wants to read the file, I tried openning it in the standard Windows Notepad last night but it doesn't display the contents particularly well. Notepad++ did a better job, at a guess the file has Linux-style line endings.

No surprise - new stations starting from zero!

In the Cotswold and Malvern Line league table, Hanborough has now moved ahead of Ledbury as well.

It's a Tab separated text file. Best to rename it .txt and then open it in the spreadsheet of your choice, selecting Tab as the field separator.

Hope this helps.

I've commented on the Melksham figure as it gives an official (published) figure that includes - for the first time - part of the improved trial extra service period.

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/4342_My-first-official-measure-Passenger-Entrys-and-Exits-revisited-9-years-later.html

Riviera Line still getting over a million pax a year now, Newton Abbot gets a million all to itself again  ;D

Entire line has surprisingly not lost that much despite the Great Smoting!