Friday 23 Aug 2013
National train performance for period 5 is 91.3%
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Punctuality on the railways reached 91.3% during Period 5, according to monthly performance data released today by Network Rail.
The data for Britain's train services covers the period from 21 July 2013 - 17 August 2013. This compares to 92.0% for the same period last year. The moving annual average is now at 90.8%.
Franchise | Punctuality % | Punctuality % | Moving annual |
Arriva Trains Wales | 93.8 | 86.1 | 93.9 |
c2c Rail | 97.5 | 97.4 | 97.3 |
Chiltern | 93.9 | 93.9 | 95.4 |
Crosscountry | 88.9 | 88.1 | 87.4 |
East Coast | 85.7 | 89.1 | 83.6 |
East Midlands Trains | 88.2 | 93.3 | 92.1 |
First Capital Connect | 90.0 | 91.1 | 88.3 |
First Great Western | 88.6 | 87.4 | 89.0 |
First Scotrail | 90.9 | 94.7 | 92.1 |
First Transpennine Express | 87.5 | 93.5 | 91.3 |
Greater Anglia | 91.1 | 91.9 | 92.5 |
London Midland | 86.9 | 89.7 | 85.0 |
London Overground | 96.3 | 97.1 | 96.7 |
Merseyrail | 96.8 | 96.7 | 95.4 |
Northern Rail | 90.8 | 91.5 | 90.6 |
Southeastern | 92.8 | 94.0 | 91.2 |
Southern | 90.7 | 90.3 | 88.0 |
South West Trains | 93.3 | 92.9 | 91.6 |
Virgin Trains | 86.2 | 88.9 | 83.1 |
National Performance | 91.3 | 92.0 | 90.8 |
Notes to editors
- Delays attributable to Network Rail (this includes external factors such as fatalities which made up around a quarter of these delays) accounted for 69% of delays to East Coast services during the period
- For East Coast the biggest incidents were a train failure near Grantham, a fatality at Biggleswade, a train striking a cow near Doncaster and lightning strikes impacting signalling equipment at Reston in Scotland
During period 5 Network Rail was directly responsible for 50% of delays to Virgin trains with a further 20% down to external factors (such as fatalities). Virgin itself was responsible for 16% of delays with other operators responsible for 14%.
Nationally around 60% of delays to train services are attributed to Network Rail. As well as infrastructure faults, these also include external factors such as weather, trespass and vandalism, cable theft etc, which make-up about 20% of all delays and therefore around a third of the delays attributed to Network Rail
- 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
- 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, did not measure all services and also excluded external factors and other items from their numbers
- 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
- Network Rail and the train operators run more trains across Great Britain than are run in most European countries - almost 20% more than in France and 60% more than in Italy.
- Great Britain's 24,000 trains per-day is also more than Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Portugal and Norway combined
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