Thursday 1 Sep 2011
NATIONAL TRAIN PERFORMANCE FOR PERIOD FIVE IS 92.3%
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Punctuality on the railways reached 92.3% during period five, according to monthly performance data released today by Network Rail. The data for Britain's train services covers the period from 24 July 2011 - 20 August 2011. This compares to 94.2% for the same period last year. The moving annual average is now at 90.6%. | ||||||
Period five of 2011/12: 24 July 2011 - 20 August 2011 | ||||||
Franchise | Punctuality % | Punctuality % | Moving Annual | |||
P5, 2011/12 | P5, 2010/11 | Average (MAA) % | ||||
Arriva Trains Wales | 92.3 | 95.7 | 93.3 | |||
c2c Rail | 97.1 | 98.8 | 94.9 | |||
Chiltern | 93.2 | 96.3 | 93.8 | |||
Crosscountry | 91.5 | 90.4 | 88.1 | |||
East Coast | 89.2 | 86.1 | 83.3 | |||
East Midlands Trains | 94.4 | 93.9 | 92.0 | |||
First Capital Connect | 92.3 | 93.4 | 89.3 | |||
First Great Western | 91.4 | 91.1 | 89.9 | |||
First Scotrail | 91.0 | 95.0 | 88.8 | |||
First Transpennine Express | 93.5 | 91.9 | 91.3 | |||
London Midland | 93.0 | 93.3 | 89.7 | |||
London Overground | 96.2 | 96.9 | 95.3 | |||
Merseyrail | 95.7 | 97.7 | 94.8 | |||
National Express East Anglia | 91.6 | 93.4 | 90.4 | |||
Northern Rail | 92.4 | 93.1 | 90.7 | |||
Southeastern | 93.4 | 94.9 | 89.1 | |||
Southern | 88.8 | 94.5 | 89.1 | |||
Stagecoach South West Trains | 93.6 | 94.8 | 92.7 | |||
Virgin Trains | 89.1 | 93.0 | 85.7 | |||
National | 92.3 | 94.2 | 90.6 | |||
Notes to editors
- Southern's performance was severely affected by the Thames Water burst main and subsequent landslide that shut the Brighton Main Line impacting services on the 1st and 2nd August
- 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
- 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
4. 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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