An extra 14 million passengers travelled on Britain’s rail network in the first part of the 2012-13 year compared to the same period last year.
New figures released by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) showed that there were more than 360 million passenger journeys between April 1 and June 30, 2012.
The number of passenger journeys rose by 5.4 per cent on London and South East rail services compared with the same quarter in 2011-12, with over 246 million passenger journeys in 2012-13 Q1.
The total number of kilometres travelled by rail passengers in Q1 2012-13 was 14.4 billion kilometres – 0.4 billion kilometres more than in the same quarter in 2011-12.
In 2011-12, 1.46 billion passenger journeys took place on Great Britain’s railways.
