In 1830 the new railway opened and by the end of the year was carrying freight.

An earlier local railway, once carried freight and some passengers.

At its height in the 1920s, the railway was carrying well over a million passengers a year.

The railway carried passengers for 30 years until 1931.

By the time of the floods in 2002, the railway carried approximately 200,000 passengers per year.

In the 10 years after it opened the railway carried 250,000 passengers.

The service was very popular, and, by the end of 1900, the railway had carried 14,916,922 passengers.

The railway opened in 1991 and, as of 2002, carried over 16,000 passengers annually.

He estimated that the railway would carry about 105,000 passengers each day.

It was claimed that the railway carried 6,342,446 visitors in just six months of operation.