Railways: Woking

(asked on 5th September 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 9th September 2019

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:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820139/rai0203.ods

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:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rail-passenger-numbers-and-crowding-on-weekdays-in-major-cities-in-england-and-wales-2018

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