Somerset has ten railway stations on the national rail network.
Seven are owned by First Great Western and three by South West Trains.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publishes annual estimates of usage at all stations in the UK. The data are compiled for the ORR by Steer Davies Gleave.
Key issues
Latest Railway station usage in Somerset
Estimated usage of Somerset's railway stations in 2018/19 are shown below, alongside the % changes in the past five and ten years.
Source: Office of Road and Rail
Source: Office of Road and Rail
For comparison, the busiest station in the South West is Bristol Temple Meads with 11.4 million in 2018/19. London Waterloo has the highest number of entries and exits of any station in the UK, with 94.2 million.
Further information:
70.5% of working age people in Somerset are qualified to at least Level 2 on the National Qualifications Framework (equivalent to 5 GCSEs at grades A* to C), higher than the national average of 67.3%.