Merseyrail have announced record pre-tax profits for last year, of £9m. (source) & (source)
The figure that caught my eye was that they invested a whopping £800,000 of that in improvements over the period. That’s a lot of yellow and black paint!
But then, I thought, I wonder how many passengers use the network, and how much does that turn out to be (roughly speaking) per passenger, over the year?
First of all we need to work out how many trips (approximately) are made over the network on a yearly basis … (source – Merseyside Route Utilisation Strategy, March 2009 – PDF 3MB )
(I’m only including ‘local’ traffic here, the actual passenger figures are higher)
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Wirral Line Annual trips to and from central Liverpool (million)
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| New Brighton – Liverpool |
0.8
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| West Kirby – Liverpool |
2.5
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| Chester – Liverpool |
2.8
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| Ellesmere Port – Liverpool |
0.1
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Total
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6.2 million trips
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