--- title: Annual patronage by metropolitan train station, Melbourne resource: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/ publisher: Department of Transport and Planning licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2025-07-28 rows: 222 fields: 16 source: https://opendata.transport.vic.gov.au/dataset/2fa2cdfa-84f1-455e-b6c9-058b92774b34/resource/c9507eb5-aa48-4a43-aa09-c10a24d1f2fe/download/annual_metropolitan_train_station_entries_fy_2024_2025.csv source_sha256: 37c6cac2831252451db17187dfb2f7d7390a4f446cba1f89011583c24bb4eb61 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Annual patronage by metropolitan train station, Melbourne Station entries at every Melbourne metropolitan train station for the financial year, in total and as daily averages by day type and time of day, rounded to the nearest 50. Published by Department of Transport and Planning under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Department of Transport and Planning has not endorsed this site. Also called: Melbourne train station patronage, Metro train station entries by station, Melbourne station usage figures. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/v/2025-07-28/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.csv (23 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.xlsx (28 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.json (78 KB) - geojson: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.geojson (99 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.parquet (20 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.sqlite (57 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.duckdb (200 KB) - gpkg: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.gpkg (98 KB) - geo.parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.geo.parquet (19 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.ndjson (76 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.arrow (18 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.csv.gz (8.0 KB) Pinned version 2025-07-28: `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/v/2025-07-28/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/aggregate?group=stop_name&metric=sum.pax_annual Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `fin_year` | string | Fin_year | The financial year, written as the publisher does, for example FY24-25. | | `stop_id` | string | Stop_ID | The station's stop id in the public transport timetable. | | `stop_name` | string | Stop_name | | | `stop_lat` | number | Stop_lat | | | `stop_long` | number | Stop_long | | | `pax_annual` | integer | Pax_annual | | | `pax_weekday` | integer | Pax_weekday | | | `pax_norm_weekday` | integer | Pax_norm_weekday | | | `pax_sch_hol_weekday` | integer | Pax_sch_hol_weekday | | | `pax_saturday` | integer | Pax_Saturday | | | `pax_sunday` | integer | Pax_Sunday | | | `pax_pre_am_peak` | integer | Pax_pre_AM_peak | | | `pax_am_peak` | integer | Pax_AM_peak | | | `pax_interpeak` | integer | Pax_interpeak | | | `pax_pm_peak` | integer | Pax_PM_peak | | | `pax_pm_late` | integer | Pax_PM_late | | Key: `fin_year, stop_id`. ## Versions - 2025-07-28: 222 rows, 16 fields, sha256 37c6cac28312. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/v/2025-07-28/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Translink origin-destination trips, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-translink-origin-destination-trips/) (Qld) - [Translink origin-destination stops, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-translink-origin-destination-stops/) (Qld) - [Translink patronage by mode, South East Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-translink-patronage-seq/) (Qld) - [Traveltrain patronage by quarter, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/) (Qld) - [Yearly traffic counts by station, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-traffic-volume-yearly/) (NSW) - [Traffic count stations, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-traffic-count-stations/) (NSW) - [Translink patronage by mode, rest of Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-translink-patronage-regional/) (Qld) - [Citytrain on-time running and reliability](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-translink-citytrain-punctuality/) (Qld) - [Translink passenger injuries per 10,000 trips](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-translink-passenger-injuries/) (Qld) - [Regional urban bus patronage by operator, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-regional-bus-patronage/) (Qld) ## Attribution and citation Department of Transport and Planning, Victorian Government, Annual metropolitan train station patronage (station entries), sourced 3 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/annual-metropolitan-train-station-patronage-station-entries, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Department of Transport and Planning, Victorian Government, Annual metropolitan train station patronage (station entries), sourced 3 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/annual-metropolitan-train-station-patronage-station-entries, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/v/2025-07-28/ Harvard: Department of Transport and Planning (2025) Annual patronage by metropolitan train station, Melbourne, version 2025-07-28 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/v/2025-07-28/ Markdown: Data: [Annual patronage by metropolitan train station, Melbourne](https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/annual-metropolitan-train-station-patronage-station-entries), Department of Transport and Planning, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/v/2025-07-28/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Annual patronage by metropolitan train station as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/v/2025-07-28/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, GeoJSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Annual patronage by metropolitan train station in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/v/2025-07-28/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 222 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/v/2025-07-28/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Annual patronage by metropolitan train station updated? Transport and Planning releases it yearly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Annual patronage by metropolitan train station commercially? Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Annual patronage by metropolitan train station? No. The publisher is Department of Transport and Planning, and its page is https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/annual-metropolitan-train-station-patronage-station-entries. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### What coordinate system does Annual patronage by metropolitan train station use? Coordinates are longitude and latitude in decimal degrees as published; the publisher names no datum, and WGS84 (EPSG:4326) is assumed as for its timetable data. The GeoJSON file uses the same coordinates, which is what GeoJSON expects. ### What does each row hold? One metropolitan train station for one financial year, with its total station entries for the year, its average daily entries on weekdays, school holiday weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and its average weekday entries in each time band from before the morning peak to late evening. ### How exact are the figures? The publisher rounds each estimate to the nearest 50 and rounds anything under 50 up to 50. The estimates come from myki data scaled by a transaction rate, so the department says they are less precise at station level than for the network as a whole. ### Does Southern Cross include V/Line passengers? No. Entries through the gates to platforms 1 to 8, where regional trains leave, are in the regional station dataset. Other metropolitan stations do count people entering to board a regional train. ### Which years are here? Each version is the newest financial year the department has released, starting with 2024-25. The portal also lists earlier years back to 2018-19 as separate files. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/vic-metro-train-station-patronage.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/vic-metro-train-station-patronage.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.