{"id":2699,"date":"2025-12-04T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:50:38","slug":"station-usage-figures-for-2024-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2699","title":{"rendered":"Station Usage Figures for Marsden &amp; Slaithwaite, 2024-25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Station footfall data for the period April 2024 to March 2025 was published on 4<sup>th<\/sup> December at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dataportal.orr.gov.uk\/statistics\/usage\/estimates-of-station-usage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Passenger usage figures for Marsden and Slaithwaite are up by 35% and 28% respectively since last year. Part of this may be because there were fewer days of bus replacement in 2024-25 compared to the previous year (something which will not apply in 2025-26), but both are higher than pre-Covid levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marsden&#8217;s 2024-25 figure of 220,584 passenger journeys is 17% above the\u00a0previous highest figure in 2011-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Slaithwaite&#8217;s 2024-25 figure of\u00a0235,294\u00a0is also the highest since records were published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/graph5-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/graph5-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/graph5-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/graph5-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/graph5-1536x777.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/graph5-2048x1036.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SMART&#8217;s view is that this level of passenger usage amply justifies our aspiration for two stopping trains per hour throughout the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Station footfall data for the period April 2024 to March 2025 was published on 4th December at&nbsp;Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal Passenger usage figures for Marsden and Slaithwaite are up by 35% and 28% respectively since last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2699\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marsden","category-slaithwaite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}