UK railway stats
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More statistics
Two subjects with a page of their own. The passenger page took over the live "people on trains" estimate from this one on 20 September 2026.
1.83bn journeys a year
The most since 1920. How far people travel, what a journey
costs, which operators carry them, how full the trains are through the day,
and a live estimate of how many people are on a train right now (around
220,000 at a typical daytime moment).
Passenger statistics →
3,365 freight workings a weekday
What Britain's freight trains carry, where they run, how heavy
they are and how few are electric, counted from the national timetable, with
forty years of the regulator's figures beside them.
Freight statistics →
Distance covered by trains
Measured, not estimated: we publish where every train is every 15 seconds, so this is how far those trains have actually moved.
Counting how far the trains on this map
travel. Figures appear here once the day's running is under way.
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kilometres of railway
stations, past & present
named lines
Track, by type
Within the operational network
Stations
Recently opened stations
The four corners of the network
How far the railway reaches, in each direction.
A few fun facts
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