The number of passengers using rail services in Wales is still well down on pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, a new report has shown. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has released a new report on passenger numbers for rail services across the UK.
The report shows the number of passenger journeys on Transport for Wales (TfW) trains in the period between January and March this year was only 67% of what it was in the spell between January and March 2019. There were 5.4m passenger journeys on TfW trains in the first three months of 2023.
Transport for Wales' percentage relative to the first three months of 2019 was fifth bottom of 22 UK rail operators with only Chiltern, South Western, Southeastern, and Transpennine Express recording a lower percentage of passenger journeys compared to four years ago.
