Shropshire's busiest railway stations as number of train journeys continues to increase
Train journeys on the operators that serve the Black Country and Staffordshire continue to increase.
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A total of 32,241,256 journeys on trains operated by Avanti West Coast, Transport for Wales or West Midlands Railway were completed between October and December last year, up 24 per cent on the same period in 2022 and 82 per cent on the same period in 2019 - the last before the pandemic - when the three operators' trains carried 39,773,109 passengers.
The improvement on 2022 is ahead of the national increase; in total 417 million journeys were made from October 1 to December 31, up 20 per cent on the 348 million the previous year.
The last three months of 2023 was also the first time passenger journeys in quarterly time period topped 400 million since the end of 2019.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR), which released the numbers, said that in the most recent quarter, Avanti West Coast recorded a 38 per cent year-on-year increase on passenger numbers which was partly put down to the operator planning 'at least 40 per cent more trains compared with the reduced timetables in place in the same quarter in the previous year.
