![]() ORR head of information and analysis Lyndsey Melbourne said: “We are publishing these new measures of punctuality and reliability to aid transparency of train performance and to help the industry focus on exactly where problems are arising and therefore direct their efforts on finding a solution – so passengers will benefit as solutions are found more quickly and more trains arrive on time.” For regulatory reasons, Network Rail is assigned responsibility for delays caused by external factors such as weather, trespass, vandalism, cable theft and fatalities. This could be caused by an infrastructure failure, a train failure, an operational complication or by an external event. Network Rail also publishes figures explaining why trains are over three minutes late. Train delay responsibility 21 July – 17 August 2019. While 64.7 per cent is nothing to celebrate, the new figuresĭo at least give a better understanding of what is actually happening on the While cancellations were 0.1 per cent down. The On Time figure is 2.5 per cent up on a year previously, Time to 3 was 83.9 per cent, Time to 15 was 98.4 per cent. In the year to June 2019, that figure was 64.7 per cent. But the headline figure will be the ‘’On Time’ figure, which is all trains that were either early or less than one minute late (up to 59 seconds). ‘Time to 3’ will be the number of trains that were either early, on time or up to three minutes late, while ‘Time to 15’ includes all of those plus trains that were under 15 minutes late. Train punctuality is currently recorded at around 90 per cent of all station stops, a figure which is expected to increase over time. This measures the punctuality of trains at departure from the origin, arrival at the final destination and arrival at each intermediate station stop where recorded. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR), which measures these statistics, has now released the first of its ‘On Time’ figures. Not a good performance, even with the flaws in the statistical approach. So, one train in eight would be late at its destination by over five or 10 (21 July to 17 August 2019), the national average was 84.6 per cent, down fromĨ5 per cent the year before, while the annual moving average was 87.3 per cent. ![]() The government target was toĪchieve a PPM of 92.5 per cent by the end of March 2019. Even with all these loopholes, the railway industry stillĬouldn’t get its trains running to timetable. ![]()
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