Talk:Manchester Victoria station
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[edit] usage
Is the station usage of 0.385 million correct for a large city central station? Simply south 15:00, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- The figures aren't exactly correct, there should be a disclaimer linked to the template, but the editors haven't implemented it yet. Basically, the figures come from sales of tickets to and from the station, but a lot of tickets for trains in and out of Manchester are listed with either "Manchester Stations" or "Manchester CTLZ" for the four stations of Victoria, Piccadilly, Oxford Road and Deansgate. Rather than divide the figures by the number of stations present, the statisticians opted for the easy option and dumped all the tickets they couldn't identify into the statistics for the largest station (Piccadilly). Road Wizard 17:48, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
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- Of course, dividing the tickets evenly wouldn't have been any more valid - possibly
less so in fact. So I don't know why it's seen as an "easy option". Unless someone spends a lot of money on censuses or surveys it's not going to be possible to allocate the tickets sensibly. Possibly better would be to show "Manchester Stations"(unspecified) separately.
Anyway if you take the 2004-5 figures and add "interchange" traffic you end up with 891,000. Possibly the true figure, including Metrolink, and GMPTE season ticket holders, is about 5 million but that's a guess.
Exile 15:37, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
