Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on (a) the peak seat capacity and (b) demand for rail services between Woking to London Waterloo in each peak morning hour.
The Department for Transport receives demand and capacity information for services at selected stations based on counts carried out by each Train Operating Company (TOC). This information is provided to the Department by the TOCs in confidence, as it relates to the way in which train operating companies operate their businesses.
The Department publishes aggregated statistics showing overall passenger numbers and crowding levels into the major cities and central London stations in the publication ‘Rail passenger numbers and crowding on weekdays in major cities in England and Wales: 2018’. Information on the total number of seats and passenger numbers travelling from all locations into London Waterloo (via Vauxhall) is presented in the table below.
Morning peak seating and passenger number arrivals into London Waterloo on a typical autumn weekday in 2018
Time | 07:00 - 07:59 | 08:00 - 08:59 | 09:00 - 09:59 |
Passengers | 36,889 | 51,538 | 25,988 |
Total seats | 28,764 | 36,223 | 24,969 |
Additional years are available at the link below:
The only services which are exempt from commercial confidentiality are those which feature in the ‘top ten’ most overcrowded peak train services into major cities. In Autumn 2018, the 07:02 Woking to London Waterloo service featured in this list.
Full details are available from the statistical release at the following link: