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She said she \"never\" sees people using smaller stations, despite some of them seeing a larger growth in use than Telford's station, Telford Central.\n\nAnalysis of [data from the Office of Rail and Road](http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates) showed that passenger numbers at the five stations between Telford Central and Wolverhampton accounted for 602,952 entries and exits during 2016-17, around half as many as at Telford Central, which has a staffed ticket office and has more services calling at it (one of two hourly services to Telford misses out the other stations).\n\n## Get the data\n\n* [Office of Rail and Road (ORR): Estimates of station usage 2016-17](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/least-used-station/blob/master/estimates-of-station-usage-2016-17.xlsx)\n* CSV: [Office of Rail and Road (ORR): Estimates of station usage 2016-17](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/least-used-station/blob/master/estimates-of-station-usage-2016-17.csv)\n* [Office of Rail and Road (ORR): Estimates of station usage 2015-16](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/factcheck-stations-demand/blob/master/estimates-of-station-usage-2015-16.xlsx)\n\n## Visualisation\n\n* Multiple bar chart: rail station usage estimates 2015/16 and 2016/17\n\n## Related repos\n\n* ORR data was previously used for the story [*Shippea Hill station: How mince pies gave the least used station a boost*](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/least-used-station)\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Ffactcheck-stations-demand","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Ffactcheck-stations-demand","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Ffactcheck-stations-demand/lists"}