Railways: West Midlands
(asked on 29th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of trends in rail passenger usage of (a) Coventry station and (b) all stations in the West Midlands in the last five years.
Estimates of Station Usage are published annually by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). This publication contains estimates for the total number of passengers travelling to and from each station in Great Britain.
Estimates of the number of entries and exits at Coventry station over the last five years are as follows:
| 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
Coventry | 5,641,000 | 5,961,000 | 6,253,000 | 6,921,000 | 7,378,000 |
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of Station Usage
Station entries and exits are an estimation of the number of passenger journeys with an origin or final destination of Coventry. The methodology applied makes an assumption that the number of station entries and exits are equal.
Journeys in which a passenger changes from one train to another at these stations in are presented separately as interchanges and are not included in these figures.
Statistics on Regional Rail Usage are also published by the ORR and the number of rail journeys in the West Midlands over the last five years are as follows:
| 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
West Midlands | 74,051,000 | 78,216,000 | 80,563,000 | 86,801,000 | 91,457,000 |
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Regional rail usage
These statistics estimate the number of journeys for which stations in West Midlands are an origin or a destination. This includes rail journeys to, from and within the West Midlands region.
Estimates of station usage for each station throughout Great Britain are published on the ORR website at:
http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates