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The line graph illustrates the figure for passenger railway journeys made in Great Britain from 1950 to 2004.
Overall
,
It is clear that
 the trends of all three networks are upward with the most striking feature being the similarity between the National
rail
network
 and the London Underground. Starting from one billion passengers using the National
rail
network
 in 1950,
this
 figure rose slightly to a peak of about 1.1 billion just before 1960, before dropping consistently to reach the lowest level of 600
million
 in 1980.
By contrast
, the number of people who used the London Underground in the 1950s was only
two thirds
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 of those taking
national
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the national
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rail
network
, with about 750
million
.
After
this
,
this
 number remained stable for the next 20 years, followed by a gradual decrease to a low of 500
million
 in around 1985.
However
, the next several years experienced a rapid increase in passenger numbers of
London
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the London
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 underground, to equal those using
national
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the national
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rail
network
.
Thereafter
, both followed a very similar pattern as they showed an upward trend towards the billion passenger mark until 2004/05, with the 1980s and the early 2000s seeing the sharpest increase.
On the other hand
, after their introduction in the 1960s, the light railway and metro systems carried fewer passengers than the other two networks, no more than around ten
million
 over the first 15 years.
Nonetheless
, in the 1980s, there was a marginal increase in the number of journeys made by passengers, reaching nearly 200
million
 in 2004/05.
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