| Wiltshire and nearby estimates of station usage from April 23 to March 24 Posted by grahame at 10:39, 21st November 2024 |      |
Newly published data - all Wiltshire stations plus some close neighbours
| April 22 to March 23 | April 23 to March 24 | Station |
| 5468478 | 6118136 | Bath Spa |
| 2588034 | 2831130 | Swindon |
| 1621562 | 1812122 | Salisbury |
| 1444888 | 1578070 | Chippenham |
| 734772 | 840926 | Trowbridge |
| 518998 | 535644 | Westbury |
| 426702 | 486806 | Bradford-on-Avon |
| 295484 | 331932 | Warminster |
| 207090 | 254698 | Frome |
| 151630 | 170286 | Tisbury |
| 81534 | 93570 | Bedwyn |
| 64424 | 63350 | Melksham |
| 28230 | 30004 | Dean |
| 23402 | 24136 | Avoncliff |
| 12076 | 19300 | Dilton Marsh |
Analysis to follow
| Re: Wiltshire and nearby estimates of station usage from April 23 to March 24 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 14:58, 21st November 2024 | |
Dilton Marsh stands out in particular, to me.
| Re: Wiltshire and nearby estimates of station usage from April 23 to March 24 Posted by grahame at 15:34, 21st November 2024 | |
Dilton Marsh stands out in particular, to me. 
The effect of providing a better service.
| Re: Wiltshire and nearby estimates of station usage from April 23 to March 24 Posted by matth1j at 15:51, 21st November 2024 | |
Melksham decreasing?
| Re: Wiltshire and nearby estimates of station usage from April 23 to March 24 Posted by matth1j at 16:00, 21st November 2024 | |
Melksham decreasing?
...and it's the only one to do so.Sorry - just seen "analysis to follow".
| Re: Wiltshire and nearby estimates of station usage from April 23 to March 24 Posted by grahame at 16:24, 21st November 2024 | |
Melksham decreasing?
...and it's the only one to do so.Sorry - just seen "analysis to follow".
Not unexpected - in fact better than it might have been.
The service is cancelled far too often if they're short of crew, or short of trains, or doing engineering work somewhere and sending expresses through Melksham, or (as has happened today) sending trains our way because of an incident at Limpley Stoke. And people can't travel on cancelled trains. Most avoid the rail replacement buses if they can, and that's even if they run them. And this got worse in the 23/24 year over the 22/23 year. Beware, it's an even worse prognosis for the 24/25 year. Do not expect to see better ORR stats for Melksham until they publish in November 2026. Once someone is let down badly, they take a lot of convincing to get back onto the "same" service. And cancellation of even a single train when the next one isn't for 2 hours is a bad let down whereas a single cancellation on a 2-per-hour or 3-per-our service is a let down, but not a bad one for most people.
The good news is that people travel on trains and not on statistics so if we can persuade whoever's running the trains and making timetable and on the day decisions to be aware of what best serves the community, and actually run it, improvements could come once Westbury re-opens.
