Train journeys on the operators that serve the Black Country and Staffordshire continue to increase
A total of 32,241,256 journeys on trains operated by Avanti West Coast, Transport for Wales or West Midlands Railway were completed between October and December last year, up 24 per cent on the same period in 2022 and 82 per cent on the same period in 2019 - the last before the pandemic - when the three operators' trains carried 39,773,109 passengers.
The last three months of 2023 was also the first time passenger journeys in quarterly time period topped 400 million since the end of 2019. The ORR also highlighted the reduction in strike days compared to the autumn of 2022 as helping passenger numbers go back up. The numbers come as a group commissioned by the Mayors of the West Midlands and Greater Manchester to improve connections between the two city regions provisionally concluded that a new rail line between Handsacre in Staffordshire and Manchester Airport is the preferred option, following the Government's decision to cancel HS2 north of Birmingham.
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