The graph below shows the number of passenger railway journeys made in Great Britain between 1950 and 2004 5

The line charts illustrate the number of people who traveled by railway in Great Britain in the period between 1950 and 2004/05. In general, the National rail network and London Underground varied dramatically, but in the end, there was a rise in all three systems. During the first decade, the gap between the National rail network and London Underground became bigger as the former rose from 1000 million and reached its peak at about 1100 million and the latter seemed to remain stable, with under 750 million passengers. Followed by this trend were the plunge of the former, the constancy of the latter until mid 1970s and the appearance of the Light rail and Metro systems with much less passengers than the others at about 50 million in mid 1960s. Thereafter, the National rail network and London Underground shared the same pattern when both of them bottomed out in early 1980s, then fluctuated wildly until they hit their peaks at about 1100 million and approximately 1,000 million respectively. Throughout that time, the new system dwindled and almost had under one million in 1980; however, it recovered and increased gradually and later stood at over 125 million people in 2004/05.