There were a record 14.8m entries and exits from Buckinghamshire’s stations in 2017/18.
Usage of Buckinghamshire’s stations grew 0.9 per cent over the previous year, well above the 0.4 per cent recorded across the country as a whole.
High Wycombe was again the county’s most commonly used station with 3.0m entries and exits, making it the 184th busiest station of all 2,563 in Great Britain, ahead of Amersham (1.94m, 301st), Beaconsfield (1.63m, 361st), Gerrards Cross (1.49m, 385th) and Aylesbury (1.18m, 482nd).
High Wycombe again saw the largest absolute rise in entries and exits, up 89,918 on the previous year, but at 3.1 per cent it saw only the 6th largest rate of increase among Buckinghamshire’s 23 stations, well behind the 9.8 per cent recorded at Aylesbury Vale Parkway, to rank 345th nationally. Eleven of Buckinghamshire’s stations saw usage decline in 2017/18, with Great Missenden seeing both the largest absolute and relative decline, falling 6.5 per cent or 40,546 entries and exits. Three stations have now seen usage fall for two successive years, while Marlow is the only one of Buckinghamshire’s stations to have seen a decline in usage in each of the last three years, having fallen 13,464, or 4.7 per cent, since 2013/14.
Table 1: Use of Buckinghamshire’s stations over time
Source: Office of Rail and Road, 2018
Over the last five years entries and exits at Buckinghamshire’s stations have risen by 1,085,322, including an additional 416,796 at High Wycombe and 190,596 at Haddenham and Thame Parkway.
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Table 2: Use of Buckinghamshire’s stations over time
Source: Office of Rail and Road, 2018
