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<p>The Waterloo Capacity Enhancement programme has lengthened suburban platforms to
accommodate 10-car length trains and provide an additional five platforms at Waterloo
by bringing the former International Terminal platforms back into regular use. This
has enabled an increase in seat capacity on trains at Waterloo.</p><p> </p><p>The
Department for Transport (DfT) publishes data on seat capacity on central London arrivals
and departures by rail on a typical autumn weekday. This data was first published
for 2011 and the latest published data is for 2018, as presented in the table below.</p><p><strong>
</strong></p><p><strong>Table 1: Total seats available on a typical autumn weekday
at Vauxhall (for Waterloo) 2011 to 2018</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total
seats</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage change from previous year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>700,825</p></td><td><p>
</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>707,218</p></td><td><p>0.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>707,138</p></td><td><p>0.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>717,848</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>723,407</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>736,370</p></td><td><p>1.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>737,791</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>809,166</p></td><td><p>9.7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><ol><li><p>Where
a city has more than one station in the city centre along the same route, the seating
capacity into the city centre is counted on arrival at the first city centre station
the train called at, and the seating capacity departing from the city centre is counted
on departure from the final city centre station the train called at. The seating capacity
for London Waterloo trains will therefore be the total seating capacity at Vauxhall.</p></li><li><p>For
the production of DfT’s rail crowding statistics, some peak trains are also given
a standing allowance to reflect additional standing capacity for shorter journeys.
Standing capacity has not been included in the table above.</p></li></ol><p> </p><p>Train
capacity (total seats) for central London arrivals and departures by rail on a typical
autumn weekday by station and timeband are available in Table RAI0203 at the following
link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/rai02-capacity-and-overcrowding"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/rai02-capacity-and-overcrowding</a></p><p><strong>
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