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PLYMOUTH MILLBAY STATION - STATISTICS

The following statistics show the number of tickets, excluding season tickets; the number of season tickets sold and the receipts generated at Plymouth's Millbay Station.  The number of staff employed at the Station was 210 in 1903 and although it reached its peak, with 267, in 1929 even when it fell back it was still employing 237 people in 1938, and they would have been mostly male.

These figures originated from Mr C R Clinker (1906-83), Great Western Railway historian.

YEAR NOTE TICKETS ISSUED SEASON TICKETS RECEIPTS
1903 390,671 612 £65,624
1905 A 994,227 743 £151,741
1913 A 1,486,581 1,107 £109,010
1923 B 900,584 1,845 £145,584
1929 B 549,018 913 £130,637
1930 474,359 765 £113,584
1931 420,512 710 £93,283
1932 399,823 827 £85,675
1933 399,797 2,559 £82,907
1934 410,302 3,365 £91,167
1935 387,834 3,048 £90,817
1936 366,789 3,216 £89,369
1937 380,206 3,959 £101,507
1938 328,559 3,218 £90,830
1939 305,687 2,632 £74,178
1940 292,964 1,042 £123,975

NOTES: 

A  Included ticket sales for Wingfield Villas Halt; Laira Halt; and Lipson Vale Halt from June 1st 1904 until closure in June 1921.

B  Included ticket sales for Lipson Vale Halt until closure in July 1930.

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