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Generally, the SVR counts tickets sold, with a return ticket counting as one (not two) passengers. Passes allowing unlimited travel, such as those for shareholders and working members, were not included.
The [[Annual Family Pass]] was included from its launch in November 2012 for nominal numbers of trips per pass. This became the [[Loyalty Pass]] in April 2020.
In some years, shareholders eligible for a set number of free journeys were provided with travel vouchers that were exchanged for tickets and were thus included, but in recent years passes were issued instead.
| 2009|| style="text-align:right;" |248,798 || ||||
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| 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>[httphttps://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1936 SVR Forum shareholders' Passes thread]</ref>
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| 2011|||| style="text-align:right;" |215,310 || ||
| 2015||style="text-align:right;" |245,800|| style="text-align:right;" |204,889 ||<ref name=Accounts/> || It is estimated that 245,800 people visited the Railway in 2015 compared with 244,800 in 2014.<ref name=Accounts/>
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| 2016||style="text-align:right;" |252,330 || style="text-align:right;" |208,479 ||<ref name=SVRLive>[httphttps://www.svrlive.com/passenger-numbers 'Passenger numbers', SVRLive] (Retrieved 16 February 2018)</ref> ||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’ 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> |-| 2019|| style="text-align:right;" | 239,723|| ||<ref>NBI</ref> ||
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== See also ==
*[[Loyalty Pass]] (formerly 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]]
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