The Swell British Railway

Since 1994 the position out of passengers traveling on Britain's trains has increased past times 135%. However to a greater extent than or less stations bring genuinely seen decreases inward rider numbers. The Centre for Towns has released an interactive map which shows which stations inward Britain bring seen an increment inward rider numbers together with which bring seen a decrease inward the end 5 years.

The Centre for Towns Trains map uses information from the Office for Rail together with Road to present rider numbers at every educate station inward England, Scotland & Wales. The stations represented past times bluish markers are those that bring seen a decrease inward rider numbers since 2011/2012. The cerise markers present the stations that bring seen an increment inward rider numbers.


Two years agone the Campaign for Better Transport released a like interactive map showing the huge increment inward rails traffic inward Great Britain betwixt 1997 together with 2015. The Rail Travel Station Usage 1997-2015 map visualizes annual rails rider traffic for each twelvemonth from 1997 to 2015. In those xviii years rails traffic inward Great Britain increased past times 1.45 billion annual rider journeys.

The Rail Travel Station Usage map shows which stations bring seen the biggest increment inward traffic together with which stations bring seen a driblet inward traffic inward the xviii years afterwards 1997. The map uses the CartoDB Torque library to animate through all xviii years of rider traffic. The round down station map markers are sized to stand upwards for the size of the station (amount of rider traffic). The color of the circles indicates the scale of the increment (or decrease) inward rider traffic over the visualized xviii years.

The Centre for Towns has created a position out of other interactive transit maps. These includes maps showing the menstruum of buses together with cars on Britain's route network. The maps tin survive viewed on the Centre for Towns Maps page.