(If you want a nice, simple TL:DR figure, 1.4 billion passenger journeys were made between October 2022 and September 2023, which is 21% up on the figures for Oct 2021 to Sep 2022.)
>https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/passenger-rail-usage/>https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/A couple of points:
>the ORR compiles data by the financial year, which of course begins in April, not the calendar year beginning in January>so, Q1 is Apr-Jun; Q2 is Jul-Sep (*YOU ARE HERE*); Q3 is Oct-Dec; Q4 is Jan-Mar>these most recent figures cover Q2 2023.It's stupid, but, that's what you get when you put accountants in charge of things. This data also excludes London Underground, Eurostar, light rail (e.g. the Manchester tram), and heritage railways.
Anyway, 397 million journeys were made in Q2 this year. That's an increase of 14% compared to Q2 2022, and it's 11% less than the same period in 2019, just before Something Happened.
The Elizabeth Line - Crossrail, if you like - has been a huge success, despite lingering issues with train software, with 55.4 million passenger journeys, an increase of 58% compared to Q2 2022. Other winners are ScotRail and Avanti (wtf?), at 26% and 25% increases in passenger journeys compared to Q2 2022.
The only operators who recorded a decrease in passengers were West Midland Trains and Heathrow Express, both at -1% compared to Q2 2022.
Regarding punctuality, there are two measures for trains: 'on time' (i.e. it arrives at a stop either early, or less than a minute after the scheduled arrival time) and 'public performance measure' (i.e. does it arrive at its final destination within either 5 or 10 minutes of the scheduled time).
>69.2% of all stops were 'on time', 1.5% better than Q2 2022>PPM was 86.9%, 0.9% better than Q2 2022Both figures are comparable with the figures from 2019, before Something Happened, so things are back to normal in that respect lol.