Passenger revenue by sector - table
Great Britain 2002-03 Q1 to 2012-13 Q4 (£ millions)
Background:
Passenger revenue includes all ticket revenue and miscellaneous charges associated with passenger travel on national railways, e.g. car parking charges. For tickets involving travel on London Transport, receipts have been apportioned. Passenger revenue does not include government support or grants.
Financial Year
Franchised long distance operators
Franchised London and SE operators
Franchised regional operators
Total franchised passenger revenue
Non franchised
2002-03
1,279
1,848
535
3,663
-
2003-04
1,384
1,932
585
3,901
-
2004-05
1,465
2,059
634
4,158
-
2005-06
1,609
2,197
687
4,493
-
2006-07
1,842
2,437
733
5,012
-
2007-08
2,036
2,717
801
5,555
-
2008-09
2,168
2,963
872
6,004
-
2009-10
2,216
3,046
916
6,179
36.7
2010-11
2,366
3,264
990
6,620
45.5
2011-12
2,533
3,602
1,094
7,229
43.9
2012-13
2,652
3,888
1,167
7,707
49.9
Financial Quarter
Franchised long distance operators
Franchised London and SE operators
Franchised regional operators
Total franchised passenger revenue
Non franchised
2002-03 Quarter 1
318
454
131
902
-
2002-03 Quarter 2
318
456
141
914
-
2002-03 Quarter 3
326
469
135
930
-
2002-03 Quarter 4
318
470
129
916
-
2003-04 Quarter 1
337
466
140
943
-
2003-04 Quarter 2
349
478
152
980
-
2003-04 Quarter 3
340
485
149
974
-
2003-04 Quarter 4
357
503
144
1,005
-
2004-05 Quarter 1
351
492
153
997
-
2004-05 Quarter 2
357
507
161
1,025
-
2004-05 Quarter 3
382
537
165
1,085
-
2004-05 Quarter 4
375
523
155
1,053
-
2005-06 Quarter 1
404
544
168
1,116
-
2005-06 Quarter 2
375
517
175
1,067
-
2005-06 Quarter 3
407
563
177
1,147
-
2005-06 Quarter 4
424
573
167
1,164
-
2006-07 Quarter 1
436
582
176
1,194
-
2006-07 Quarter 2
445
589
185
1,219
-
2006-07 Quarter 3
467
630
189
1,286
-
2006-07 Quarter 4
494
636
183
1,313
-
2007-08 Quarter 1
498
650
191
1,339
-
2007-08 Quarter 2
499
666
201
1,366
-
2007-08 Quarter 3
501
701
206
1,408
-
2007-08 Quarter 4
537
700
203
1,441
-
2008-09 Quarter 1
559
737
221
1,517
-
2008-09 Quarter 2
540
737
219
1,496
-
2008-09 Quarter 3
527
745
217
1,489
8.4
2008-09 Quarter 4
542
744
215
1,501
8.5
2009-10 Quarter 1
542
741
223
1,505
8.5
2009-10 Quarter 2
537
742
228
1,506
8.4
2009-10 Quarter 3
560
776
237
1,573
9.6
2009-10 Quarter 4
578
788
229
1,594
10.2
2010-11 Quarter 1
595
783
242
1,620
11.2
2010-11 Quarter 2
577
806
247
1,630
12.0
2010-11 Quarter 3
578
814
248
1,641
11.5
2010-11 Quarter 4
616
860
253
1,729
10.9
2011-12 Quarter 1
621
860
263
1,744
10.6
2011-12 Quarter 2
623
887
273
1,782
11.1
2011-12 Quarter 3
626
902
280
1,808
11.0
2011-12 Quarter 4
664
953
278
1,895
11.2
2012-13 Quarter 1
662
942
281
1,886
11.7
2012-13 Quarter 2
657
970
292
1,919
12.2
2012-13 Quarter 3
668
988
302
1,959
12.7
2012-13 Quarter 4
665
988
290
1,943
13.3
Source: LENNON database and train operating companies
 
Publication schedule:
Published: 13 June 2013
Next publication date: 19 September 2013
For a list of all official statistics publication dates, please visit:
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This is an official statistic. For more details please contact the statistics Head of Profession Jay Lindop at jay.lindop@orr.gsi.gov.uk or on 020 7282 3978.
Key results:
 
Annual:
(i) Franchised passenger revenue in 2012-13 reached £7.7bn, the highest point since the time series began in 2002-03. This represented a 6.6% increase on 2011-12. Over the same period, non-franchised revenue increased by 13.6%.

(ii) The London & South East sector saw the largest annual increase in franchised passenger revenue of 8.0% between 2011-12 and 2012-13. Despite a drop in passenger kilometres, revenue in the regional sector still increased by 6.6% whilst there was an increase of 4.7% in the long-distance sector.
Quarterly:
(i) Despite the volume of passenger journeys and kilometres falling compared to Q4 last year, franchised passenger revenue rose 2.6% between 2011-12 Q4 and 2012-13 Q4.

(ii) Non-franchised passenger revenue in 2012-13 Q4 was 18.3% higher than in Q4 last year.
 
(iii) In 2012-13 Q4, franchised passenger revenue has increased in all three sectors compared to 2011-12 Q4, despite an equivalent fall in journeys and kilometres. The regional sector has seen the largest growth of 4.5% whilst passenger revenue in London & South East has increased by 3.7% to £988m. The long-distance sector has experienced the lowest growth of 0.2%.
Methodology:
The rail industry’s central ticketing system, LENNON, is the basis for passenger revenue data. LENNON holds information on the vast majority of national rail tickets purchased in Great Britain and is used to allocate the revenue from ticket sales between train operating companies (TOCs).
LENNON contains two datasets; pre-allocation (sales) and post-allocation (earnings). Passenger usage statistics in NRT are based on the post-allocation dataset. Allocations are created for each ticket group by ORCATS, dependant on sales levels. These allocations are principally used to apportion journeys between TOCs.
ORCATS is a mathematical model which uses a similar logic to journey planning systems and identifies passenger ‘opportunities to travel’ from an origin station to a destination station using timetable information.
Notes, revisions and proposed changes:
 
First Great Western (FGW) data is split across the long-distance, regional and London and South East sectors so that there is consistency in the sector time series. The FGW cases which have not been assigned an appropriate sector in LENNON have been included in long-distance.      
 
After re-franchising in November 2007, some further TOCs operate services in more than one NRT sector.
CrossCountry: Long-distance and regional
East Midlands Trains: Long-distance and regional
London Midland: London and South East and regional
Virgin Trains: Long-distance and regional
First Great Western: Long-distance, regional and London and South East
LENNON sector data do not match NRT sector data in some cases. Within LENNON, each TOC is assigned to one particular sector. In NRT, sectors are assigned based on the route code. This ensures a consistent time series with data prior to re-franchising.      
    
Data for non-franchised operators were not collected prior to 2008-09 Q3. LENNON data for non-franchised operators includes First Hull Trains and Grand Central but not Heathrow Express. Between 2008-09 Q4 and 2010-11 Q4, the data also included Wrexham and Shropshire but they ceased trading on 28 January 2011.    
 
There are no changes currently proposed to this table.
Quality:
As part of our commitment to continuous quality improvement, we will be producing a full quality report for all NRT statistics, in line with the Government Statistical Service (GSS) standards for quality reporting. The quality measures below provide a summary of the key dimensions of statistical quality.

Relevance:
Users of passenger revenue data are consulted for their feedback by a number of methods, including the NRT portal survey and regular meetings of the Rail Statistics Management Group.

If you have any feedback on this data or any of our statistics, please contact rstats@orr.gsi.gov.uk
 
Users of passenger revenue statistics are currently being consulted about their use of this dataset. We would like to know what you use this data for, we would greatly appreciate if you could complete this quick on-line survey (it should take a maximum of two minutes) http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/useofNRT.
Accuracy:
Passenger revenue data are rarely revised. The only circumstance in which passenger revenue figures would be revised is when there is a change to the revenue figures in LENNON. These are likely to occur within the first two weeks after the end of each period. To minimise the risk, ORR waits at least one month before extracting the data from LENNON.

Timeliness/Punctuality:
The latest data in this release refers to 2012-13 Q4, 1 January to 31 March 2013.

Accessibility & clarity:
Passenger revenue data are provided by sector and by ticket type. Lower levels of disaggregation are not possible as they are commercially sensitive.

Comparability & coherence:
Any series breaks are explained in the 'notes, revisions and proposed changes' section. Any future amendments will also be highlighted in this section.
Other links:
Other passenger revenue tables can be found here: http://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/displayreport/report,
and include the following:
- Passenger revenue by ticket type - table
- Revenue per passenger km and per passenger journey - table