Map of rail station usage in the UK: 1997 – 2015

It was interesting the see the number of stations being &quot;upgraded&quot; from small to medium &amp; large. Certainly are a lot more large stations popping up in recent years.<p>I&#x27;d be curious to know what &quot;large&quot; means though. Is it just the passenger throughput or is it the number of platforms? It would be quite impressive if each of these size increases represents a major construction project.

Transport is one of my &quot;pet&quot; hobbies. This sort of hard data, on it&#x27;s own is interesting. Combined with census data, local authority housing development data, and car use, then it becomes powerful. Even bring in the price of oil however this will have a general impact on the whole network.<p>The problem, as ever, is stitching it all together.

I love the visualization here - but I&#x27;m not quite sure what it&#x27;s showing me.<p>Is the increase compared to the starting point, or is it a year on year change?<p>I&#x27;m also unsure as to whether the white colour was the best choice for the largest change group - my mind was instantly associating it with a small change, for whatever reason&#x2F;

Do you know of a dataset showing station locations and distance by rail from neighbouring&#x2F;other stations?<p>I need to map stations and distance from ${CITY} (London in this case) but haven&#x27;t found the data yet.

Why is Northern Ireland transport not represented on this map? Otherwise the title should be &#x27;Map of rail station usage in England, Scotland and Wales&quot;

No data on the island of Sodor?

Shame they used such similar shades of red.