| ORR station usage data Posted by John D at 10:17, 4th December 2025 |     |
ORR has just published station usage data, and at the end has regional busiest stations
Bristol Temple Meads 10.9m
Bath Spa 9.5m
Swindon 3.2m
Exeter Central 3.0m
Exeter St Davids 2.9m
Others not in South West top 5
London Paddington 69.9m
Reading 14.3m
Cardiff Central 12.5m
https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/msigcn24/station-usage-2024-25-statistical-release.pdf
For those who like to do pre-covid comparisons, the 2018-2019 report is here
https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/1668/estimates-of-station-usage-2018-19-factsheet.pdf
The link to ORR data page with links to to the data spreadsheets is here (not yet looked) but could check rank of your local station or its change
https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage
Edit : just looked up some figures from 2018-19 which shows big jump on some stations eg
Bath Spa was 6.538m
Exeter St Davids 2.619m
But others less important eg
Reading was 17.08m
Swindon was 3.75m
(perhaps few more trains need to skip these if usage down)
| Re: ORR station usage data Posted by lympstone_commuter at 10:21, 4th December 2025 | |
I have just used the fresh data to update the maps of station usage here: https://timjupp.github.io/stations.html
"Map 1" gives the long-term trend since 1998.
"Map 2" shows (as black dots) the stations for which 2024 - 25 was their best ever year. There are a lot of them, especially in our region.
| Re: ORR station usage data Posted by Red Squirrel at 10:48, 4th December 2025 | |
Yes - looking pretty good in the Bristol area too!
| Re: ORR station usage data Posted by IndustryInsider at 11:26, 4th December 2025 | |
Some very impressive (and slightly surprising) leaps.
I guess the combination of the return of many office workers, the continued explosion of leisure travel and other more minor factors such as the end of industrial action have all played their part?
Imagine how the numbers would stack up if the railway were providing a better and more consistent service - cue Graham to talk about the slight drop at Melksham, but there are other examples too, such as the generally 'meh' service Chiltern now provide leading to stagnat figures at Oxford Parkway.
As for Bath Spa? 77th busiest station in the whole country. I can only see one busier one (outside of central London) with only two platforms...can anyone guess which it is?
| Re: ORR station usage data Posted by grahame at 11:29, 4th December 2025 | |
Some very impressive (and slightly surprising) leaps.
I guess the combination of the return of many office workers, the continued explosion of leisure travel and other more minor factors such as the end of industrial action have all played their part?
Imagine how the numbers would stack up if the railway were providing a better and more consistent service - cue Graham to talk about the slight drop at Melksham, but there are other examples too, such as the generally 'meh' service Chiltern now provide leading to stagnat figures at Oxford Parkway.
As for Bath Spa? 77th busiest station in the whole country. I can only see one busier one (outside of central London) with only two platforms...can anyone guess which it is?
I guess the combination of the return of many office workers, the continued explosion of leisure travel and other more minor factors such as the end of industrial action have all played their part?
Imagine how the numbers would stack up if the railway were providing a better and more consistent service - cue Graham to talk about the slight drop at Melksham, but there are other examples too, such as the generally 'meh' service Chiltern now provide leading to stagnat figures at Oxford Parkway.
As for Bath Spa? 77th busiest station in the whole country. I can only see one busier one (outside of central London) with only two platforms...can anyone guess which it is?
Separate thread ... in preparation
for local circulation| Re: ORR station usage data Posted by John D at 11:56, 4th December 2025 | |
As for Bath Spa? 77th busiest station in the whole country. I can only see one busier one (outside of central London) with only two platforms...can anyone guess which it is?
Appears to be Moorfields in Liverpool
| Re: ORR station usage data Posted by IndustryInsider at 14:13, 4th December 2025 | |
As for Bath Spa? 77th busiest station in the whole country. I can only see one busier one (outside of central London) with only two platforms...can anyone guess which it is?
Appears to be Moorfields in Liverpool
Moorfields has three platforms.
| Re: ORR station usage data Posted by bobm at 14:34, 4th December 2025 | |
The link to ORR data page with links to to the data spreadsheets is here (not yet looked) but could check rank of your local station or its change
https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage
https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage
Is it me - or does that link go to the previous year's data?
| Re: ORR station usage data Posted by ChrisB at 16:27, 4th December 2025 | |
Estimates of station usage April 2024 to March 2025
Date published: 4 December 2025
Date published: 4 December 2025
