[PR] Heavy Rail Census of 2012 published by National Transport Authority

[Colm Moore]

http://www.nationaltransport.ie/news...ort-authority/

Heavy Rail Census of 2012 published by National Transport Authority
20/11/13

Latest in a series of Statistical Bulletins

The National Transport Authority today (November 20th, 2013) published a summary of its Heavy Rail Census – which for the first time records information on boarding and alighting of passengers at all 147 train stations in the country on one day of the year (November 15, 2012). The Census was repeated on November 14 this year (2013), and will be repeated annually to build up a detailed picture of trends in Heavy Rail use across the network in Ireland. Prior to this, Census details were collected at Greater Dublin Area stations (Dublin, Meath, Kildare, Wicklow) only.

The main findings from the 2012 Census are:

* 124,000 rail journeys made on the day of the census
* Nearly 1 in 2 passenger journeys in the State is taken on the DART
* 83% of all journeys are taken in the Greater Dublin Area
* Connolly station is the busiest of the 147 stations in the country
* The top 10 stations account for almost 50% of all passenger traffic
* The busiest train in the country that day – with 1,427 passengers – was the 08:00 DART from Greystones to Malahide
* The busiest hour was on the Northern Line (between Dundalk and Dublin Connolly) between 08:00 and 9:00 when a total of 7,440 people were on that line, on DART, Commuter and InterCity services, travelling towards the City Centre.

Full results are available to download in the Heavy Rail Census 2012.

Also available is the Heavy Rail Census Summary November 2012 (Statistical Bulletin Number: 4).

The Heavy Rail Census Summary is the 4th in a series of Statistical Bulletins published by the Authority. Earlier Bulletins include:

* Bus Statistics for Ireland
* Rail Statistics for Ireland
* National Household Travel Survey Summary

[James Howard]

It is really quite a little rail network when a single train accounts for more than 1% of all passengers.

[comcor]

1 person used Roscrea station in the whole day...

[Traincustomer]

I think that figure of 1 refers to alighting passengers.
15 passengers boarded at Roscrea (Appendix A, page 42).

[comcor]

Not so bad then.

I'd be interested to know why 55 people got on trains at Ballybrophy-Limerick line stations that day, but only 15 got off. That sounds like quite an anomaly.

If it was a Friday when there are very different patterns on non-commuter lines, it might make sense, but this seems to have been a Thursday.

[Mark Gleeson]

Well they could be through passengers to Dublin Cork line destinations or onwards to Ennis/WRC