Evidence H- Passenger journeys in Great Britain in 1985-86 to 2008-09


  • In 1985-86 passenger journeys were at an all time low at 700 million
  • Journeys began increasing but then went into a slump in 1993-96 whereby they stayed at 725 million
  • From 1997-98 the amount of passenger journeys taken has continually increased reaching an all time peak in 2007-08 at 1280 million
Rail passenger journeys in Great Britain reach record levels


The 2010-11 figures show that:
1.16 bn rail journeys took place in Great Britain – up 8.9% from 2009-10. 769.8 million rail journeys took place within individual GORs (an increase of 10.3% compared with 2009-10) and there were 393.3 million rail journeys between GORs (up  6.3% from 2009-10).

The total number of rail journeys for England was 1.05 bn - up 9.4% on 2009-10.

The total number of rail journeys for Scotland was 85.9 million - up 4.4% on 2009-10. 78.5 million rail journeys took place within Scotland (an increase of  3.7% compared with 2009-10) and there were 7.4 million rail journeys between Scotland and other GORs (up 11.7% from 2009-10).

The total number of rail journeys for Wales rose to 27.3 million – up 4.7% from 2009-10. 18.7 million rail journeys took place within Wales (an increase of  3.8% on 2009-10) and there were 8.6 million rail journeys between Wales and other GORs (up 6.8% from 2009-10).

London had more rail journeys than any other government region and 60.7% of all rail journeys in Great Britain started and/or ended in London. There were 706.3 million journeys involving London, an 11.7% increase on the previous year. There were 371.7 million journeys made within London (a 17.3% increase on 2009-10) and there were 334.5 million journeys made between London and other GORs (a 6.1% increase on the previous year).

No comments:

Post a Comment