No. of passengers getting off at a station?

Question

Are there any statistics on this type of thing? I'm doing a business studies project, and need to know which train station would be the best option.

Answer 1

not it would be impossible to do, even with people buying tickets this does not account for people who have purchased tickets in advance and fare dodgers.

with people getting off and getting onward connections as well as leaving the station it would be impossible to get an exact number, they may have a rough estimation on approx how many people pass through the station say every month or year, or how many people bought tickets to certain station that would be an close estimate

Answer 2

If you go to this page, http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/n... you can get access to Excel spreadsheets listing the total number of tickets sold from and sold to each station on the UK rail network for most years from 2002/03 to 2006/07. These statistics don't include journeys made with various forms of passes.

A bit of playing with Excel shows that in 2006/07 four tickets were sold from Tyndrum Upper (on the line from Glasgow to Fort William), and 42,028,956 tickets were sold from London Waterloo. In the same period, 12 tickets were sold to Buckenham (in the Norfolk Broads), and 41,964,358 to Waterloo.

Kyle of Lochalsh is by no means an unused station - 18,978 journeys started there, and 27,771 journeys were made to there - I presume 8793 people either died there or they took the bus over to the Isle of Skye and possibly caught trains back to Glasgow from Mallaig!

Answer 3

Kyle Of Lochalsh. it only has three trains arriving each day so that would make the counting real easy. As opposed to say London Victoria where you would need a calculator to count everyone

Answer 4

If you contact your local train company, your local transport authority or the train company which manage the station you are looking for statistics for then they will be able to help with this information.

If you go to the stations guide on the National Rail Enquiries site and type in the station name it will give you the information as to whom the station is managed by and you can take it from there.

Answer 5

Contact one of the many train operating companies. Much of the rolling stock now on the network is fitted or being fitted with passenger counting equipment.

Answer 6

Do your own study   a nice rural station say Westerfield outside Ipswich take your picnic lunch in the evening have a meal at the station pub, first I think is the 05.10  last as far as I know 23.14 ... enjoy

Answer 7

Unfortunatley most stations would not have a record of this due to the amount of open stations there are, however those with Barrier gates will have a record as the gates count how many tickets pass through the barriers, the other way of checking or at least getting a rough average is amount of tickets sold per day at each ticket office sales point and automated machine plus each Conductor / Train managers / revenue Protection officers sales figures for the whole company, this obviously would still not include those who are Fare Dodgers nor those season ticket holders or advance Internet purchase sales, nor would it include customers who have brought tickets from alternate companies and are passing or ending their journeys in the TOC area.  But it would give a rough guide.

Information on the above can be given out by each TOC by calling the companies or sending a letter to them explaning what you are doing and if they have the information for academic statistical use.

Having worked at different stations and different roles on the railway it is quite surprising when I hear the company talk figures.

Good Luck