Changes

Generally, the SVR counts tickets sold, with a return ticket counting as one (not two) passengers. Passesallowing unlimited travel, such as those for Shareholders shareholders and Working Membersworking members, were not included.

In some years, Shareholders were included as they shareholders eligible for a set number of free journeys were provided with travel vouchers that were exchanged for ticketsand were thus included, but in recent years passes were issuedinstead.

! <b>Year</b> !! style="text-align:right;" | <b>Passenger numbers</b> !! <b>Ticket numbers</b>!! <b>Reference</b> !! <b>Notes</b>

|1970|| style="text-align:right;" |32,037 || |||| Opened May 1970 between [[Bridgnorth]] and [[Hampton Loade]]

| 1971|| style="text-align:right;" |78,774 || || ||

|1972|| style="text-align:right;" | || || ||

| 1973|| style="text-align:right;" | || || ||

| 1974|| style="text-align:right;" |76,399 || ||||Services extended to [[Bewdley]]

| 1975|| style="text-align:right;" |74,000 || || ||

| 1976|| style="text-align:right;" |113,463 || || ||

| 1977|| style="text-align:right;" |112,514 || || ||

| 1978|| style="text-align:right;" |155,394 || || ||

| 1979|| style="text-align:right;" |149,715 || || ||

| 1980|| style="text-align:right;" |186,700 || || ||

| 1981|| style="text-align:right;" |157,522 || || ||

| 1982|| style="text-align:right;" |173,718 || || ||

| 1983|| style="text-align:right;" |173,968 || || ||

| 1984|| style="text-align:right;" |181,345 || ||||Services extended to [[Kidderminster]]

| 1985|| style="text-align:right;" |191,619 || || ||

| 1986|| style="text-align:right;" |185,053 || || ||

| 1987|| style="text-align:right;" |183,294 || || ||

| 1988|| style="text-align:right;" |200,466 || || ||

| 1989|| style="text-align:right;" |209,837 || || ||

| 1990|| style="text-align:right;" |213,029 || || ||

| 1991|| style="text-align:right;" |197,562 || || ||

| 1992|| style="text-align:right;" |194,566 || || ||

| 1993|| style="text-align:right;" |194,094 || || ||

| 1994|| style="text-align:right;" |183,282 || || ||

| 1995|| style="text-align:right;" |172,380 || || ||

| 1996|| style="text-align:right;" |187,780 || || ||

| 1997|| style="text-align:right;" |202,904 || || ||

| 1998|| style="text-align:right;" |212,582 || || ||

| 1999|| style="text-align:right;" |228,011 || || ||

| 2000|| style="text-align:right;" |227,225 || || ||

| 2001|| style="text-align:right;" |230,436 || || ||

| 2002|| style="text-align:right;" |236,704 || || ||

| 2003|| style="text-align:right;" |248,627 || || ||

| 2004|| style="text-align:right;" |242,258 || || ||

| 2005|| style="text-align:right;" |252,127 || || ||

| 2006|| style="text-align:right;" |245,711 || || ||

| 2007|| style="text-align:right;" |139,000 || || ||[[2007 Storm Damage]]

| 2008|| style="text-align:right;" |238,056 || || ||

| 2009|| style="text-align:right;" |248,798 || || ||

| 2010|| || style="text-align:right;" |225,570 || ||Since 2010, documents sent to shareholders became valid as a ticket which did not need to be exchanged for travel.<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1936 SVR Forum shareholders' Passes thread]</ref>

| 2011|| || style="text-align:right;" |215,310 || ||

| 2012|| || style="text-align:right;" |202,552 || ||[[Annual Family Pass]] introduced in November

| 2013|| || style="text-align:right;" |211,000 045 || <ref name=Accounts>Chairman's Statement, SVR(H) published accounts</ref> ||

| 2014|| style="text-align:right;" |244,800|| style="text-align:right;" |204,045 ||SVR News 186 <ref name=Accounts/> ||

| 2015|| style="text-align:right;" |245,800|| style="text-align:right;" |204,842 889 || <ref name=Accounts/> ||It is estimated that 245,800 people visited the Railway in 2015 compared with 244,800 in 2014.<ref name=Accounts/>

| 2016|| style="text-align:right;" |210252,275 330 || style="text-align:right;" |208,479 ||<refname=SVRLive>[httphttps://www.svrlive.com/passenger-numbers Matthew Harris, ‘Passenger Numbers’'Passenger numbers', SVRLive, 16 February 2017] (Retrieved 22 March 201716 February 2018)</ref> ||Tickets sold. During 2016 passenger surveys identified forms of ticket and passes used, and the passenger number was recalculated to an estimated 252,330 (245,800 - 2015)using an average of 18.7% of non-payment passengers. <ref>SVR Shareholders' Newsletter 2018, undated</ref> This is directly comparable to the era when Shareholders’ shareholders’ travel vouchers were exchanged for tickets.|-| 2017|| style="text-align:right;" | 240,686|| style="text-align:right;" |195,770||<ref>SVR(H) Annual Report for period ended 2 January 2018, p.8</ref> || |-| 2018|| style="text-align:right;" |245,031 || style="text-align:right;" |198,432 || SVR News 205, p.14; Annual Report and Financial Statements p.8 ||There was an increase of 10,351 fare-paying passengers attending special events. From 2018 passenger surveys an estimated 17.3% were 'non-payment passengers'.<ref>SVR Shareholders' Newsletter 2019, undated, p. 9.</ref>

*[[Annual Family Pass]]<br>*[[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC | Shareholder benefits]]*[[Spring Steam Gala#Passenger numbers|Spring Steam Gala passenger numbers]]*[[Autumn Steam Gala#Passenger numbers|Autumn Steam Gala passenger numbers]]