https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/factcheck-stations-demand

Commuters protest over Telford's MP's no demand for rail stations comment
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/factcheck-stations-demand

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Commuters protest over Telford's MP's no demand for rail stations comment

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/factcheck-stations-demand
• Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
• Created: 2018-02-14T10:52:04.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-02-14T10:59:30.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:41:46.484Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: factcheck, orr, trains, transport
• Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-42973820
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# Commuters protest over Telford's MP's no demand for rail stations comment

![](https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/12C84/production/_99923967_chart-stationsusageshrops-28m82-nc.png)

In February 2018 **Dan Wainwright** did a quick analysis of transport data to provide context to a [story about an MP saying there was "no demand" for trains to stop at smaller stations](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-42973820). 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.

Analysis 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).

## Get the data

* [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)

* 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)

* [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)

## Visualisation

* Multiple bar chart: rail station usage estimates 2015/16 and 2016/17

## Related repos

* 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)