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the explanation of this is in the main repo https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/tree/main https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/tree/main it's the pa

by buro9 3y ago

the explanation of this is in the main repo https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/tree/main https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/tree/main it's the passenger journey data overlaid on the map of tracks, where the thickness is number of journeys. so drilling into a station like EXD (Exeter St David's) shows lines going to Aberdeen... there is no route between Exeter and Aberdeen, this is just a journey involving multiple changes. so what you're seeing for a station is where people travel to, and the volume of journeys on those segments of line, given the station as a starting point. I couldn't trivially determine whether it reflects all through journeys for a station (start point, destination point, stop on an through journey), it may well do so.

VBprogrammer 3y ago
Unfortunately, for a quiet station I think the weighing is hard to interpret. From a station near me, say Addlestone, I would bet that > 95% of passengers were heading into one of the London stations. However, because the relative number of passengers is still low there isn't a great difference between that and Addlestone to Glasgow.
jayelbe 3y ago
There's one direct train between Exeter St Davids - Aberdeen every day Mon-Sat, in each direction. It takes something like 10½hrs. If you join the train at Plymouth (the start of the journey) it's 11½hrs, and the longest possible train journey you can make in the UK without changing.
- buro9 3y ago
  wow, TIL (thank you)
- lmm 3y ago
  > It takes something like 10½hrs. If you join the train at Plymouth (the start of the journey) it's 11½hrs, and the longest possible train journey you can make in the UK without changing. You're probably thinking of the direct train from Aberdeen to Penzance (not just Plymouth), which does stop in Exeter. However that one only runs in that direction, not the reverse.
  - zeristor 3y ago
    Surviving 13½ Hours on a CrossCountry Train. What's This Journey from Aberdeen-Penzance REALLY Like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOmZ6xBToDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOmZ6xBToDM Although the video is only 24 minutes.
  - jayelbe 3y ago
    Oh wow, I completely forgot, yes! From Aberdeen it continues all the way to Penzance (but in the opposite direction it starts from Plymouth). So the longest journey is Aberdeen - Penzance; my mistake. Thank you! Another mistake: it doesn't run on Saturdays.

by buro9 3y ago

VBprogrammer 3y ago

Unfortunately, for a quiet station I think the weighing is hard to interpret. From a station near me, say Addlestone, I would bet that > 95% of passengers were heading into one of the London stations. However, because the relative number of passengers is still low there isn't a great difference between that and Addlestone to Glasgow.

jayelbe 3y ago

There's one direct train between Exeter St Davids - Aberdeen every day Mon-Sat, in each direction. It takes something like 10½hrs. If you join the train at Plymouth (the start of the journey) it's 11½hrs, and the longest possible train journey you can make in the UK without changing.

buro9 3y ago
wow, TIL (thank you)
lmm 3y ago
> It takes something like 10½hrs. If you join the train at Plymouth (the start of the journey) it's 11½hrs, and the longest possible train journey you can make in the UK without changing. You're probably thinking of the direct train from Aberdeen to Penzance (not just Plymouth), which does stop in Exeter. However that one only runs in that direction, not the reverse.
- zeristor 3y ago
  Surviving 13½ Hours on a CrossCountry Train. What's This Journey from Aberdeen-Penzance REALLY Like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOmZ6xBToDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOmZ6xBToDM Although the video is only 24 minutes.
- jayelbe 3y ago
  Oh wow, I completely forgot, yes! From Aberdeen it continues all the way to Penzance (but in the opposite direction it starts from Plymouth). So the longest journey is Aberdeen - Penzance; my mistake. Thank you! Another mistake: it doesn't run on Saturdays.