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Title: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: grahame on December 15, 2015, 12:11:33 Station usage figured for 2014 - 2015 just published:
http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: grahame on December 15, 2015, 12:25:39 Station usage figured for 2014 - 2015 just published: http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates Very quick initial extract (sorted by passenger entrance + exit numbers (here) (http://www.wellho.net/data/pcount2015.txt) Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: ChrisB on December 15, 2015, 12:27:29 Banbury's up over 7%
Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: grahame on December 15, 2015, 12:52:27 Here are ..
a) 2014-2015 figures b) 2013-2014 figures c) growth factor from 13/14 to 14/15 d) code e) name of all FGW as was (now GWR) managed stations Code: 6624954 6505100 1.018 OXF Oxford Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: grahame on December 15, 2015, 13:44:20 Banbury's up over 7% Overall growth across GWR managed stations - 4.42% ... other key stations they serve (NR managed): Paddington up 1.8% Temple Meads up 6.1% Reading up 4.3% Overall growth across UK - 4.48% ... if that continues, there will be 155 passengers for every 100 today in 10 years, and 240 for every 100 today in 20 years. Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: Oxonhutch on December 15, 2015, 14:14:44 Some interesting numbers. Particularly in passenger densities with little old Windsor and Eton Central with its 1,885,272 passengers spread over its single usable platform of 113m (Western SE) makes for a density of 16,684 passengers per platform metre (pppm). Compare that to 12,990pppm for Bath Spa and 10,114pppm for Oxford. When one realises that actual platform length used with the service of 3 car turbos (max.) is more likely 70m, that makes an actual density of 26,932pppm.
Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: didcotdean on December 15, 2015, 14:28:11 Some interesting (!) things that spring out to me.
On interchanges there are considered to be over twice as many at Didcot compared with Oxford (491,568 v 225,903). Nearly a 17% increase at Radley, which the authors can't come up with a reason for. Contrasts with a 13% decline at Appleford, but these numbers are so small really as to be questionable as to significance. Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: ChrisB on December 15, 2015, 14:56:24 Far better service at Radley....plus a car park.
Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: Bmblbzzz on December 15, 2015, 15:08:00 Passengers per platform metre. What a wonderfully specific measure! I've never been to Windsor (well, not by train ^ nor by car, come to that) but the platform at Bath often seems very crowded. Of course, it depends on how those numbers are spread by time as well. Perhaps the measure should be something like peak passengers per platform metre-minute?
Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: chrisr_75 on December 15, 2015, 15:21:30 No more than idle curiosity on my part as I spotted a clear outlier, but does anyone know what is going on at Islip to have caused such a huge change from 13/14 to 14/15?
6858 27018 0.254 ISP Islip Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: didcotdean on December 15, 2015, 15:25:31 Far better service at Radley....plus a car park. Er, yes. I was puzzled why the producers of the document couldn't have worked it out. The existence of Radley is also now better known in Abingdon and South Oxford saving a congested journey into Oxford or Didcot. Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: didcotdean on December 15, 2015, 15:26:07 No more than idle curiosity on my part as I spotted a clear outlier, but does anyone know what is going on at Islip to have caused such a huge change from 13/14 to 14/15? Closure of Oxford to Bicester Town over the period.6858 27018 0.254 ISP Islip Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: grahame on December 15, 2015, 15:26:31 No more than idle curiosity on my part as I spotted a clear outlier, but does anyone know what is going on at Islip to have caused such a huge change from 13/14 to 14/15? 6858 27018 0.254 ISP Islip The effect of bustitution ... Quote The station closed to rail traffic on 15 February 2014 (the last trains having run late on 14 February) in order to allow upgrade of the line between Oxford and Bicester. Reopening was planned for May 2015.[3][4] It was later delayed until 26 October 2015. Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: grahame on December 15, 2015, 15:41:35 Looking at the outriders / special cases, I notice Manea and Bladon which I can understand (improved service), Energlyn (only open for a bit of the previous year), and a couple of stations where ticket assignment within a group of stations was changed. Then there's
25464 6838 3.724 PEB Pevensey Bay which the ORR have highlighted without, it seems, any certainty of reason. Does snyone have any local knowledge - "Tourist Flow" suggested ... surely not because it's a famous film set ... "The station was the setting for an episode of The Goon Show called 'The Pevensey Bay Disaster'" Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: IndustryInsider on December 15, 2015, 15:50:13 Far better service at Radley....plus a car park. Er, yes. I was puzzled why the producers of the document couldn't have worked it out. The existence of Radley is also now better known in Abingdon and South Oxford saving a congested journey into Oxford or Didcot. The number of services were essentially the same over those two years to/from Radley, but the opening of the car park extension and the guarantee of a parking space has definitely encouraged more users - despite a charge being introduced. Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: Adelante_CCT on December 15, 2015, 18:54:37 I'm assuming the numbers for Reading West are down by a lot as they don't actually know what the figure is based on all tickets being valid to/from Reading Stations
Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: Rapidash on December 15, 2015, 20:54:51 Looks like healthy increases across the main Devonian stations. I wouldn't be surprised if Exmouth hit's a million by 2020. Not bad for a single track branch reliant on Pacers!
It does at least confirm my observations that services are busier, even in the "quiet" times. Which is nice as I thought I may be going dippy doodah Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: grahame on December 15, 2015, 21:25:34 Looks like healthy increases across the main Devonian stations. Stats / graphs at http://www.wellho.net/demo/railuse.php?place=EX - replace the "EX" for other postcode areas. "Station Comparator" at the top of all our pages also now updated Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: SandTEngineer on December 15, 2015, 21:34:58 It would be interesting to see the dates when revenue protection was increased at each of the stations (provision of ticket barriers etc.) and if this is reflected in the growth (or in some cases decline) in the figures. E.g. Before Plymouth had ticket gates manned until late evening I'm sure there would have been a lot of ticketless travel Westwards ::)
Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: ellendune on December 15, 2015, 21:37:22 51858 23930 2.167 MKM Melksham
Well done Trans Wilts CRP Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: Rapidash on December 15, 2015, 21:45:52 Looks like healthy increases across the main Devonian stations. Stats / graphs at http://www.wellho.net/demo/railuse.php?place=EX - replace the "EX" for other postcode areas. "Station Comparator" at the top of all our pages also now updated The only real surprise I see there is Digby somehow losing 200k pax a year. I find that a bit odd, as it still seems a busy station when I go along there :/ Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: didcotdean on December 15, 2015, 22:04:15 Digby is mentioned in the methodological report (http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/20176/estimates-of-station-usage-2014-15-methodological-report.pdf) - it has been readjusted downwards to take account of a special student ticket in reality used to Exeter Central and St Davids.
Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: grahame on December 15, 2015, 22:09:10 The only real surprise I see there is Digby somehow losing 200k pax a year. I find that a bit odd, as it still seems a busy station when I go along there :/ Are you sure the figures are "real" for passengers and don't just show a ticketing quirk? I note a more-than-double a couple of years back and this looks like a 'correction' - perhaps lots of ticket splits. We had such problems for a few years at Melksham - huge numbers of ticket sales from Melksham to Bristol as it was cheaper than Trowbridge to Bristol ... passenger figures prior to 2010 are wildly different to ticket sale figures which these reports give us. Also to note - Rovers, BritRail passes, children under 5 don't show up in the stats Ah ... Digby is mentioned in the methodological report (http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/20176/estimates-of-station-usage-2014-15-methodological-report.pdf) - it has been readjusted downwards to take account of a special student ticket in reality used to Exeter Central and St Davids. Yes. Reported as I typed, but my comments still add a bit Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: grahame on December 15, 2015, 22:15:35 BBC Report - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35105105
Revealed: Britain's busiest and quietest stations Top 10 listed in many places. Bottom 10: Quote Below are the top 10 quietest stations in the UK from 2014-15, with 2013-14 figures in brackets (based on the total number of passenger exits and entries). Shippea Hill, Cambridgeshire: 22 (12) Coombe, Cornwall: 26 (42) Teesside Airport, Darlington: 32 (8) Reddish South, Greater Manchester: 54 (26) Barry Links, Angus: 60 (40) Pilning, South Gloucestershire: 68 (88) Golf Street, Angus: 86 (90) Elton & Orston, Nottinghamshire: 88 (166) Buckenham, Norfolk: 88 (80) Breich, West Lothian: 92 (64) Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: John R on December 15, 2015, 23:10:15 51858 23930 2.167 MKM Melksham Well done Trans Wilts CRP Just a caution on these figures. The 2013/4 figure included just 4 months of the enhanced service, whereas the 2014/5 includes a full 12 months' worth. So the size of the increase isn't indicative of an increasing trend necessarily. Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: grahame on December 15, 2015, 23:31:11 Just a caution on these figures. The 2013/4 figure included just 4 months of the enhanced service, whereas the 2014/5 includes a full 12 months' worth. So the size of the increase isn't indicative of an increasing trend necessarily. Here's a bit of a breakdown showing how the figures are likely to have come about to March 2013 1000 ticket journeys per month for 12 months - * to March 2014 1250 ticket journeys per month for 8 months - * 3500 journeys per month for 4 months to March 2015 4300 journeys per month for 12 months to March 2016 indications are that the rate will be up again, realistically in the 3,500 - 4,300 - 5,?00 sequence. Yes - I could guess what "?" would be, but don't want to make myself a hostage to fortune. And I say "Bath Engineering" to you to remind you of significant disruption, and trains that are getting so full at certain times that they're capping growth. P.S. Trowbridge up 6.3% and Westbury up 8.8% as against 4.8% GWR average ...TransWilts is a small player there,but perhaps we can be seen even with our occasional train? Contrast to Dilton Marsh and Warminster which are not yet served. Added 07:45 on 16th December ... footnoted comment: * - Prior to December 2013, some journeys via Melksham were lower in price if you "split tickets" at Melksham. As an educated guess, this may have lead to 4 to 6 "phantom journeys" per day - 2 or 3 real journeys with people travelling through Melksham, but not alighting or boarding there. These all added up - to somewhere between 1500 and 2000 tickets per annum, making the real journey figures year to 2013: 10,250 year to 2014: 22,800 (8 months - "via Melksham" ticket introduction removed (almost?) all of the anomaly) year to 2015: 51,858 Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: grahame on December 16, 2015, 08:06:25 I have gone back this morning and amended my technical post here (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=16550.msg188390#msg188390) on the Melksham figures - as prior to December 2013 they included split tickets which gave a distortion of around 20%.
Prior to 2010, Melksham's real figures were drowned by distortions - lots of Melksham tickets sold to people who never even travelled to, from or through - but that's now history prior to the current discussion. Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: ellendune on December 16, 2015, 08:13:49 Hadn't thought of the effect split ticketing has on these figures before. Didcot must be hugely over estimated then.
Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: TaplowGreen on December 16, 2015, 08:27:28 Here are .. a) 2014-2015 figures b) 2013-2014 figures c) growth factor from 13/14 to 14/15 d) code e) name of all FGW as was (now GWR) managed stations Code: 247068 247418 0.999 TAP Taplow .............that must have been down to me having a longer than usual holiday ;) Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: Red Squirrel on December 16, 2015, 16:37:52 Just had a look at Shippea Hill on Google Maps: it must keep the signaller fit, climbing up to the top of that hill every day...
Edit: Ah, Google Maps is out of date. The signaller can take a well-earned rest. Title: Re: ORR Station usage figures April 2014 to March 2015 Post by: mjones on December 16, 2015, 17:56:57 Hadn't thought of the effect split ticketing has on these figures before. Didcot must be hugely over estimated then. I don't know about splitting at Didcot, as I travel from there, but Banbury is well known for Cross Country splitting (I do it regularly!).This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |