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« on: June 15, 2019, 09:00:05 »

An interesting read from the ORR» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about) (office of rail and road) - https://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/41256/passenger-rail-usage-2018-19-q4.pdf

Quoted bits are picked out from the 20 pages or so of the report - gleaning vital headline statistics

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Rail passenger journeys in Great Britain in 2018-19 reached a record high of 1.759 billion. It increased by 3.0% compared to the previous year and was driven by a 3.9% increase in the London and South East sector.

Total passenger revenue reached £10.3 billion in 2018-19, with annual revenue growth at its highest (6.1%) since 2014-15.

Passenger kilometres increased to 67.7 billion in 2018-19.

After falling for two consecutive years, the volume of passenger train kilometres increased by 1.7% to 529 million in 2018-19.


So
.. Average journey cost £5.85
.. Average journey length 38.49 km = 23.92 miles
.. Average cost of travel 24.46p per mile
.. Average passenngers on a train at a time - 127.98

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Passenger journeys using ordinary tickets increased by 5.0% in 2018-19 compared to the previous year. This was driven by a 6.9% growth in anytime tickets. In contrast, the number of passenger journeys made using season tickets fell for the third consecutive year, down 0.4%. Market share of season ticket journeys was 36% in 2018-19, down from 48% a decade ago.

On 20 May 2018, TfL» (Transport for London - about) Rail took over some local Great Western Railway (GWR (Great Western Railway)) services out of London Paddington, which significantly increased the number of trains ran by TfL Rail and consequently explains the drop in journeys for GWR.

This latter means that trends show and changes for GWR are skewed and cannot be directly compared to other operators.

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Journeys by ticket type:
Season 38.5%
Off Peak 31.2%
Anytime 24.7%
Advance 4.5%
Other 1.1%

Assume "off peak" includes Super Off Peak??
Figures retyped - from a graphic in the report, franchised services only
Noting journeys rather than miles, kilometres or number of sales.
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