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Standard Gauge Visitor/Passenger Numbers 2016/7

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by buzby2, Feb 8, 2018.

  1. buzby2

    buzby2 Well-Known Member

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    Both The Railway Magazine and Heritage Railway magazines have articles in their current issues about how some have done recently.
    NYMR : 2016 C350,000 2017 C350,000
    SVR : 2016 208,479 [but recalculated to an estimated 252,330 allowing for shareholder tickets/passes/etc.] 2017 figures awaited. SVR Figures from: https://www.svrwiki.com/SVR_Passenger_numbers
    SR : 2016 211,075 2017 213,518
    ELR : 2016 201,916 [included 2 public visits by Flying Scotsman] 2017 188,947
    WSR : 2016 186,608 2017 189,359
    NNR : 2016 C165,840 2017 161,944
    BR : 2016 ? 2017 153,372 visitors of which 90% travelled
    IoWSR : 2016 115,305 2017 111,233
    KWVR : 2016 ? 2017 C105,000
    GWSR : 2016 100,020 2017 100,619
    Llangollen : 2016 ? 2017 C87,000
    NVR : 2016 ? 2017 C70,000
    B&WR : 2016 C47,000 2017 C55,000
    Looks like the 'Flying Scotsman Effect' still had some impact upon those railways fortunate enough to hire it.
    I wonder if 60103 will be hired similarly this year? Time will tell I guess.
     
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  2. Reading General

    Reading General Part of the furniture

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    very interesting and not what I'd have guessed.
     

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