Thursday 7 Jul 2011

JUNE'S TRAIN PERFORMANCE AT ALMOST 93%

Region & Route:
National

Punctuality on the railways reached 92.8% during June, according to monthly performance data released today by Network Rail.

The data for Britain’s train services covers the period from 29 May to 25 June 2011. This compares with 93.0% for the same period last year. The moving annual average (train punctuality over the past 12 months) is now at 90.8%

Period 3 of 2011/12 – 29 May to 25 June 2011

Franchise

Punctuality

P3, 2011/12

Punctuality P3, 2010/11

Moving Annual Average (MAA)

Arriva Trains Wales

93.9%

95.1%

93.6%

c2c Rail

97.3%

97.0%

94.8%

Chiltern

96.3%

94.4%

94.0%

Crosscountry

90.9%

90.8%

88.1%

East Coast

88.8%

87.8%

83.2%

East Midlands Trains

94.3%

94.4%

92.0%

First Capital Connect

91.8%

90.4%

89.3%

First Great Western

89.9%

90.8%

89.9%

First Scotrail

92.1%

94.7%

89.4%

First Transpennine Express

94.2%

94.5%

91.0%

London Midland

92.2%

92.0%

89.7%

London Overground

96.8%

94.5%

95.2%

Merseyrail

96.7%

96.2%

95.0%

National Express East Anglia

92.7%

90.6%

90.4%

Northern Rail

93.2%

93.7%

90.7%

Southeastern

93.6%

92.3%

89.4%

Southern

92.0%

92.3%

89.4%

South West Trains

92.7%

94.8%

93.1%

Virgin Trains

87.9%

90.4%

86.1%

National

92.8%

93.0%

90.8%

Notes to editors

1. Arrived on time - the measure of train punctuality also known as PPM (public performance measure) means trains arriving at their destinations within five minutes for commuter services and within 10 minutes for long distance services. This measure of punctuality is commonly used throughout Europe. Heathrow Express, Grand Central, Hull Trains and Eurostar are not included in the National PPM

2. National train punctuality is measured for all trains across the whole network, including cancelled services and delays caused by external factors (such as vandalism, extreme weather, suicides etc). Punctuality did not start to be recorded in this vigorous and thorough way until 1997. Before then Railtrack, and BR before it, did not measure all services and also excluded external factors and other items from their numbers

3. These figures represent provisional data for the period and individual operators' performance data may vary slightly from the full period performance report that Network Rail publishes on its website every month

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