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Title: 2020-21 station usage Post by: grahame on November 25, 2021, 11:28:34 2020 - 2021 station usage figures published this morning - here is an extract for GWR managed and selected other stations:
Columns 1 - Ranking in terms of traffic loss across all UK stations 2 - Station code 3 - Traffic in 2020/21 - percentage change from 2019/20 4 - Total number of entries and exits 2019/20 5 - Total number of entries and exits 2020/21 6 - Station name Code: 5 LTS -100% 84,522 392 Lelant Saltings Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: grahame on November 25, 2021, 11:41:49 Same format - stations serving airports
4 HAF -100% 1,752,096 162 Heathrow Terminal 4 (Rail Station Only) 20 TEA -99% 338 2 Teesside Airport 43 HXX -96% 3,990,120 142,492 Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 (Rail Station Only) 85 GTW -92% 21,050,640 1,686,444 Gatwick Airport 91 PRA -92% 101,220 7,734 Prestwick International Airport 79 BHI -92% 6,519,612 512,176 Birmingham International 113 MIA -91% 5,747,042 545,790 Manchester Airport 118 SIA -91% 757,058 64,524 Southend Airport 119 SSD -91% 8,474,784 794,992 Stansted Airport 490 RIA -85% 174,648 25,674 Rhoose Cardiff International Airport 496 SOA -85% 1,592,654 233,020 Southampton Airport Parkway 664 LTN -83% 4,201,068 694,084 Luton Airport Parkway 1685 HWV -74% 1,461,446 381,778 Heathrow Terminal 5 (Rail Station Only) Edit to add Birmingham International! Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: IndustryInsider on November 25, 2021, 12:55:41 2020 - 2021 station usage figures published this morning - here is an extract for GWR managed and selected other stations: Good to see decent growth at Worcestershire Parkway. :D Though on a more serious note it is doing quite well - I reckon up to 150 cars are now in the car park most days, up from about 15 this time last year. Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: Western Pathfinder on November 25, 2021, 14:07:50 Pleased to see that Pilning managed over 200 even with everything that's been happening.
Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: grahame on November 25, 2021, 15:07:47 From the BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59414795)
Quote London's Stratford railway station was Britain's busiest in a year that recorded the lowest level of passenger journeys for almost 150 years. The station recorded about 14 million entries and exits between in March 2020 and April 2021 as passenger usage fell 78% in Britain due to the pandemic. Lockdowns and restrictions throughout the year meant more people worked from home and did not commute as much. London Waterloo witnessed the biggest decrease in passenger usage. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said Waterloo had lost the title of Britain's busiest station for the first time in 17 years, with just 12.2 million entries and exits compared to 86.9 million the year before. It said the pandemic had brought the lowest level of rail journeys across Britain since at least before 1872. Feras Alshaker, director of planning and performance at the ORR, said there had been "radical change", particularly in London, in the stations people used the most. He said recent figures suggested there had been a "slower increase in commuter journeys" compared to leisure trips, which had almost returned to pre-pandemic levels. London's railway stations dominated the top 10 most used, with London Victoria (13.8 million) also heavily used during the pandemic. Highbury and Islington (8.7 million), Clapham Junction (8.4 million), Barking (6.7 million) and East Croydon (6.7 million) entered the top 10 for the first time, replacing London's Paddington, Euston, St Pancras International and Kings Cross stations. Outside of the capital, the ORR said Birmingham New Street was the only station that recorded more than six million entries and exits, with 7.4 million people travelling from or to the station. Across Scotland, Glasgow Central remained the most used station with 5.3 million entries and exits, a fall from 32.5 million in 2019-20, while Cardiff Central in Wales remained the nation's busiest with just under 2 million journeys compared to more than 12 million the year before. Nearly 200 railway stations across Britain had fewer than 1,000 entries and exits, with many having services suspended due to the pandemic.There were six stations that recorded no entries or exits. These were Abererch and Llanbedr stations, in Gwynedd, Wales, Sugar Loaf in Powys, Beasdale in Highland, Scotland, Sampford Courtenay in Devon, and Stanlow & Thornton station near Chester. Good summary. It's striking that the London interchanges, rather than the termini, have fared less badly, in spite of some long distance expresses skipping places like Clapham Junction. With the thinning out of some services through there, does the new normal suggest all trains should call for connectional purposes, and that some of the wider connecting services that call at Clapham Junction, such as ;D that to Bath and Bristol ;D should be enhanced. Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: lympstone_commuter on November 25, 2021, 16:06:05 I've incorporated the latest figures into new clickable maps here
http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/tej202/stations.htm (http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/tej202/stations.htm) Striking how the "COVID-effect" between 2020 and 2021 seems much less than almost everywhere else (except the Oban line....) Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: REVUpminster on November 25, 2021, 18:09:51 What I noticed from those figures was Teignmouth, Dawlish, Dawlish Warren, and Torre stood up quite well. I wonder if this was due to the Grammar schools at Torre when up to 200 pupils emerge every morning. A 166 is used every day for the school run 2T07. Once 2 x 2 car165s was used.
Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: grahame on November 25, 2021, 22:28:40 Striking how the "COVID-effect" between 2020 and 2021 seems much less than almost everywhere else (except the Oban line....) What I noticed from those figures was Teignmouth, Dawlish, Dawlish Warren, and Torre stood up quite well. I wonder if this was due to the Grammar schools at Torre when up to 200 pupils emerge every morning. A 166 is used every day for the school run 2T07. Once 2 x 2 car165s was used. Almost certainly school traffic. A new service for schools into Oban in the morning and out in the afternoon appears to have booked the numbers at the intermediate stations. Oban itself already had too much other traffic for the decline to be reversed by the extra train, but still didn't do too bad. Harlech is another school destination - that did relatively well too, together with other stations just up and down the line - quite the exception for Wales. Traffic from Swindon to Stroud for school was also noticeably strong - but that's from personal observation last November; there is so much other traffic (or was) during the day at Swindon that it wasn't going to make the figures there stick out like they do at Taynuilt and Connel Ferry. Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: CyclingSid on November 26, 2021, 07:02:17 My eye was caught by:
674 NBY» -83% 1,819,730 307,708 Newbury 675 NRC -83% 105,398 17,890 Newbury Racecourse 1208 DPD -78% 406,538 90,096 Dorking (Deepdene) 1210 DKT -78% 57,066 12,648 Dorking West I think that it has been discussed before that the system possibly does not separate these pairs of stations well. Maybe just coincidence as opposed to conspiracy theory! Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: grahame on November 26, 2021, 07:40:30 My eye was caught by: 674 NBY» -83% 1,819,730 307,708 Newbury 675 NRC -83% 105,398 17,890 Newbury Racecourse 1208 DPD -78% 406,538 90,096 Dorking (Deepdene) 1210 DKT -78% 57,066 12,648 Dorking West I think that it has been discussed before that the system possibly does not separate these pairs of stations well. Maybe just coincidence as opposed to conspiracy theory! The Dorking figures are so close to each other (77.836%) that they would be an amazing coincidence - accurate to the 2 journey granularity used in this data. The Newbury figures are about 60 journeys out and I would suspect that IS a coincidence. Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: eightonedee on November 26, 2021, 09:19:57 To add to this analysis with more (ill-informed?) speculation-
Guildford and London Road Guildford are both shown at the same reduction as well (79%), supporting Cycling Sid's hypothesis. In relation to some of the Devon (and indeed Cornish) and Highland reductions being less, do bear in mind that schools were closed for much of the period, but on the other hand there was the respite from lockdown between June and October which saw a spike in "staycations" - my guess is that tourist traffic in this period mitigated the picture here. My wife and I certainly did when we stayed in Oban last August and had a day out by train to Mallaig and back. The trains were not particularly quiet, and almost all our fellow travellers were clearly holidaymakers. One other observation - the fall in Greater London seems less overall - perhaps because for many there rail (including Underground) is the most convenient way of getting around. Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: Lee on November 27, 2021, 12:53:11 Busiest train station in Horsham is Horsham shocker! ;D - https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/transport/horshams-busiest-train-station-revealed-3473469
Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: jamestheredengine on November 27, 2021, 14:04:47 Same format - stations serving airports Surprised Rhoose did so badly, seeing as the village probably accounts for much more traffic than the (already not particularly successful) airport. Other stations on the Vale of Glamorgan Line have done reasonably well in the circumstances, e.g. Grangetown (-63%), Cadoxton (-71%), and Barry Docks (-78%).4 HAF -100% 1,752,096 162 Heathrow Terminal 4 (Rail Station Only) 20 TEA -99% 338 2 Teesside Airport 43 HXX -96% 3,990,120 142,492 Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 (Rail Station Only) 85 GTW -92% 21,050,640 1,686,444 Gatwick Airport 91 PRA -92% 101,220 7,734 Prestwick International Airport 79 BHI -92% 6,519,612 512,176 Birmingham International 113 MIA -91% 5,747,042 545,790 Manchester Airport 118 SIA -91% 757,058 64,524 Southend Airport 119 SSD -91% 8,474,784 794,992 Stansted Airport 490 RIA -85% 174,648 25,674 Rhoose Cardiff International Airport 496 SOA -85% 1,592,654 233,020 Southampton Airport Parkway 664 LTN -83% 4,201,068 694,084 Luton Airport Parkway 1685 HWV -74% 1,461,446 381,778 Heathrow Terminal 5 (Rail Station Only) Edit to add Birmingham International! Title: Re: 2020-21 station usage Post by: eightonedee on November 27, 2021, 16:42:11 Quote Busiest train station in Horsham is Horsham shocker! Grin - https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/transport/horshams-busiest-train-station-revealed-3473469 Also looks like a contender in the "Annoying/amusing use of completely irrelevant stock photos to illustrate press artices" thread too! 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 |