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Railway Stations

Volume 458: debated on Wednesday 28 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) rail and (b) tram stations there are in England and Wales; and (c) how many bus stations there are in England. (129161)

The information is as follows.

(a) The Network Rail’s Annual Return to the Office of Rail Regulation published 1 August 2006 shows that there were 2,167 stations in England and Wales.

(b) There are 391 tram stops in England, although currently no light rail systems in Wales (excluding those, such as the Great Orme Tramway, which is operated primarily as a tourist attraction and not as a transit system). There is no distinction in this figure between a tram stop and a tram station. These figures do not include MerseyRail or the London Underground, which are considered “heavy” rail, but does include the Docklands Light Railway.

(c) Unfortunately, we are unable to provide the number of bus stations in England. We do not define bus stations in our data as there is no clear definition as to what a bus station is i.e. at what point are bus stops clustered close enough in order to call it a bus station. Therefore, we only recognise individual bus stops. The number of bus stops available relates to Great Britain only, as it is extremely hard to count bus stops for individual countries. There are currently 361,745 active bus/coach stops in Great Britain as a whole.