Covid-19 pandemic: Sheffield railway station journeys cut to one fifth of normal levels
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Rail regulator the Office of Rail and Road has today (February 17) published regional rail usage statistics for 2020-21. They show that the number of passengers entering and exiting Sheffield railway station fell to 1,906,820 in 2020-21 from 10,094,758 the previous year.
At Meadowhall, the fall was down from 1,796,048 to 379,456.
The fall in Great Britain of 78% “represented the lowest level of annual passenger usage since before the time series began in 1872,” said the ORR.
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Hide AdThe total number of rail journeys for the Yorkshire and the Humber was 15.3 million in 2020-21, which equates to 20.7% of the 73.8 million in 2019-20.
Yorkshire and the Humber recorded 4.9 million journeys to or from other regions, 16.7% of the 29.3 million in 2019-20.