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Title: Triangle flow chart - Salisbury to Swindon via Westbury Post by: grahame on February 08, 2024, 09:39:29 Does anyone remember the old triangular bus fare charts where you looked along a row and down a column to find how much your journey would cost?
Using the latest data on passenger flows, here is an adaption of that chart showing passenger flows between each pair of stations from Swindon to Salisbury (http://www.wellho.net/pix/triangle_transwilts.jpg) Title: Re: Triangle flow chart - Salisbury to Swindon via Westbury Post by: brooklea on February 08, 2024, 09:55:37 Chippenham and Swindon fifty per cent down from 2018 to 2021 - over 100,000 fewer journeys. Wow!
I wonder how the current figures look (not that we’ll know for a year or two)? Title: Re: Triangle flow chart - Salisbury to Swindon via Westbury Post by: grahame on February 08, 2024, 10:24:42 Chippenham and Swindon fifty per cent down from 2018 to 2021 - over 100,000 fewer journeys. Wow! I wonder how the current figures look (not that we’ll know for a year or two)? Swindon numbers are trashed from everywhere - 54.5% in 2021/22 of 2018/19 levels http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/flows.html?stn=3333 Other percentages to all destinations from: Chippenham - 57.0% Melksham - 70.2% Trowbridge - 68.6% Westbury - 80.0% Dilton Marsh - 51.0% Warminster - 81.4% Salisbury - 65.1% Title: Re: Triangle flow chart - Salisbury to Swindon via Westbury Post by: grahame on February 08, 2024, 11:44:49 Swindon numbers are trashed from everywhere - 54.5% in 2021/22 of 2018/19 levels Comparative figures for other stations Chippenham - 57.0% Melksham - 70.2% Trowbridge - 68.6% Westbury - 80.0% Dilton Marsh - 51.0% Warminster - 81.4% Salisbury - 65.1% I found myself wondering why Westbury and Warminster have done so well. At Westbury: 1. The additional car parking opened in March 2019, overcoming a serious problem at the station that had been surpressing use. 2. With reduced services and unreliability, people were still resultant to make complex journeys involving changes in 2021/22, and didn't really want to use multiple trains during covid either At Warminster: More guessing here ... it seems that most of the strong journeys are quite local and I wonder if revenue collection has improved? Stories of certain trains being targetted, especially northwards ;D And at both Westbury and Warminster, through the numbers are low, there is a small boost from those who have moved from the least-returning station between them at Dilton Marsh. Title: Re: Triangle flow chart - Salisbury to Swindon via Westbury Post by: grahame on February 28, 2024, 15:41:32 Here is the same diagram with the 2022-23 data added
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/twtri_to23.jpg) Title: Re: Triangle flow chart - Salisbury to Swindon via Westbury Post by: Clan Line on February 28, 2024, 18:20:42 I found myself wondering why Westbury and Warminster have done so well. More guessing here ... ....................another guess: these two stations still have Waterloo services ;D 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 |