This is in answer to a request from a fellow campaigner for pointers to data on loadings and journeys of trains to and from Torbay (TLCs^▸ (three letter code, or tender loving care, depending on context ) PGN TQY and TRR, to help provide data and inform him and his colleagues of when and where people are going. 

Source 1: https://www.railwaydata.co.uk/loadings/gbr/?TLC=PGN - covering an "average weekday during the summer of 2024" and show numbers of arrivals, departures and through passengers on each timetabled service. Change PGN to TQY and TRR to see the figures for Torquay and Torre to cover the the intermediate stations between Newton Abbott and Paignton. These come from a "no longer maintained" site, so I have member's mirror at
https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/mirror/PGN_2024.pdf https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/mirror/TQY_2024.pdf and  https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/mirror/TRR_2024.pdf . Note that were "no source" is shown on the trains, I suspect it's Exeter St David's - a station in which the apostrophy often causes problems.

Source 2: Our own forum using https://raildata.org.uk - Rail Data Marketplace data.  This shows destinations - using URLs such as https://www.passenger.chat/PGN.html (and change to TQY and TRR, and thre is a link on each page to give you the top 50.

Neither source answers the complete question of "where are people going on which train?" but it sounded to me like these two sources together are a little more information that the Torbay team had looked at so far. Split tickets, ticketless travel, ranger and rover tickets, etc, will clearly skew the figures.

Source 1:







Sample from source 2 (full links above)