IELTS Academic Writing : London underground station passengers

The graph shows London underground station passengers numbers in London.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The information illustrated in the graphical representation gives insights in to the hourly distribution of tally of passengers at Underground Station in the city of London. The distribution is spread over a period of 16 hours, form 6:00 am to 11:00 pm, with rocketing patterns of traffic at 6:00 am and 8:00 pm.

At the beginning of the day , the numbers jump from a mere 100 at 6:00 am to 400 at 8:00 am. Afterwards , a steep decline is observed till 10:00 am , when the tally plummets to just below 200.After gradual ups and downs during the day , the figure finally drops drastically to 100 at 4.00 pm. However, the traffic hikes to around 400 within a period of 2 hours , from 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm. But, similar pattern is seen in the decline of commuters’ number , from 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm and the tally dives from a high of around 400 to just around 125.Finally, till around 10.00 pm, the numbers remain quite stable in the range of around 125 to about 175.00

Overall, the most striking feature of the pattern is that the growth is most significant during early morning around 8:00 am and then during later in the evening at around 6.00 pm.

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