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Approximately 1600 freight trains are operated on average daily.
Rail is nine times safer than car travel and about the same as air travel.
In 2006/7 one billion and 164 million journeys were made (more than in any year since 1958) and a total of 46.5 billion passenger kilometres travelled (the highest since 1946).
Billion Passenger Railway
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Publication Date: 10th April 2008
The use of Britain’s railways, as measured by passenger miles, is now at the highest level ever recorded in peace time, according to figures published today by the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) in “The Billion Passenger Railway”. * 30.1 billion passenger miles were generated in 2007 and the railway carried 1.213 billion passengers - an increase of 7.8% compared to the 1.125 billion passenger journeys made in 2006.
Publication Date: 10th April 2008
The use of Britain’s railways, as measured by passenger miles, is now at the highest level ever recorded in peace time, according to figures published today by the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) in “The Billion Passenger Railway”. * 30.1 billion passenger miles were generated in 2007 and the railway carried 1.213 billion passengers - an increase of 7.8% compared to the 1.125 billion passenger journeys made in 2006.
