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Rail growth: not as impressive as it sounds

10 January 2014
Rail passengers: double counting
Rail passengers: double counting

 

The rail industry and politicians are fond of stating that rail passenger journey numbers have more than doubled  since privatisation but this claim needs to be tempered with a bit of scepticism. 

Transport Statistics GB reveals that recorded journeys have indeed risen from 735 million in 1994/95 to 1,503 million in 2012/13 but, since privatisation, single journeys involving two or three different trains are regarded as two or three different journeys, even if they are with the same...

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