Total distance travelled by passenger rail in the UK 1960-2022

An overall increase in rail travel was observed between 1980 and 2028 in the United Kingdom. In 2019, railroad transportation travel amounted to 80 billion passenger kilometers in the United Kingdom. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the distance traveled by rail passengers in the UK amounted to 16 billion passenger kilometers, a decrease of around 80 percent compared to 2019 levels. However, in 2021, with the ease of pandemic restrictions and starting to recover from the effect of the pandemic, the number increased to 47 billion passenger kilometers, growing to 64 billion passenger kilometers in 2022.

自1980年至2028年期间，英国铁路旅行总体呈现出增长趋势。2019年，英国铁路运输的旅客公里数达到了800亿，显著攀升。在COVID-19疫情期间，英国铁路旅客的旅行距离降至160亿旅客公里，较2019年水平下降了约80%。然而，随着疫情限制的放宽以及从疫情影响中逐渐恢复，2021年旅客公里数增至470亿，并在2022年进一步增长至640亿旅客公里。