Monday 13 Jun 2011

NATIONAL TRAIN PERFORMANCE FOR MAY 2011 IS 93.7%

Region & Route:
National

Punctuality on the railways reached 93.7% during May, according to monthly performance data released today by Network Rail. The data for Britain’s train services covers the period from May 1-28. This compares 93.7% for the same period last year. The moving annual average is now at 90.8%.

Period 2 of 2011/12 – May 1-28 2011

Franchise

Punctuality %

P2, 2011/12

Punctuality %

P2, 2010/11

Moving Annual Average (MAA) %

Arriva Trains Wales

95.4

95.0

93.7

c2c Rail

97.5

95.8

94.8

Chiltern

94.9

95.4

93.8

Crosscountry

92.2

91.3

88.1

East Coast

85.9

88.8

83.1

East Midlands Trains

94.5

93.6

92.0

First Capital Connect

92.6

93.7

89.2

First Great Western

92.0

93.8

90.0

First Scotrail

90.1

94.8

89.6

First Transpennine Express

95.4

94.0

91.0

London Midland

94.1

91.6

89.7

London Overground

96.2

95.1

95.0

Merseyrail

97.4

96.8

95.0

National Express East Anglia

93.2

93.0

90.2

Northern Rail

93.9

93.7

90.7

Southeastern

94.3

91.4

89.1

Southern

93.9

93.6

89.4

South West Trains

95.3

95.8

93.4

Virgin Trains

89.6

89.0

86.3

National

93.7

93.7

90.8

PPM

PPM is a % measure of passenger trains arriving ‘on time’ at their scheduled destination. For long distance trains ‘on time’ is within 10 minutes of the timetabled arrival time, for all others it is within 5 minutes.

Heathrow Express, Grand Central, Hull Trains and Eurostar are not included in the National PPM.

MAA

Moving annual average

Note: The data contained within this report is for initial indications only and is subject to change in subsequent publications

Top 5 Network Rail responsible incidents in the period (by delay)

Date

Route

Description

Location

Trains cancelled

Delay mins

May 9

Western

Signal failure

Reading to Twyford

139

5,967

May 28

LNE

Power failure caused by overhead wires down

Stoke jn to Tallington jn

101

4,698

May 2

LNE

Signal failure caused by cable theft

Thorne jn to Scunthorpe

35

3,773

May 13

Anglia

Signal failure caused by cable theft

Chelmsford to Witham

60

3,650

May 27

LNW

Cows on line

Nuneaton to Rugby

15

3,267

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