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Thegraph provides informatio

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I iscle r that the trends for allthree

n tworks are u wardwith the most striking feature beingthe similarity

b tween the National rail network an

the London Un ergroun F r example,

numbers for the former fell from

a proximately one billion passengers

in 1950 to about 750 milion in th

early 1980s Likewise,the Londo

Underground experienced a parallel, but

less pronounced, decline over the same

period (from approximately 700 million

to about 500 mi ion) Thereafter, both

followed avery simiar pattern as they

climbed towards the billion passenger mark, with the 1980s and the early

2 0 s seeing the sharpest increases

T e Natio al rail network reached a high

of approximately 1.1billion passenger

journ ys in 200 /05

By comparison, after their introd ction

in the 1960s, the light railway

and metro s stems carried fewer passengers than the other two

n tworks, no more than around ten million over he nrst 15 years However,

in 1980 the number of journeys made by

p s engers picked up,reachin nearly

200 million in 2004/05

(Wo r d co u t 1 88 w ord s )

Now che c k you r answe r to this s e ction a nd compa re your T a sk 1a ns w e r wi th the m od el above a nd