Property News · January 9, 2016

Passengers left fuming as train firms increasingly fail to arrive on time


Fares have gone up again, but the latest punctuality figures expose serious flaws in our rail networkOnly four out of 10 trains are running on time on many of Britain’s busiest routes, with CrossCountry and TransPennine trains the least likely to arrive on schedule, according to punctuality figures from Network Rail.The data, which covers mid-November to mid-December 2015, shows that punctuality has fallen significantly since the same period in 2014. On the toughest definition of timeliness – arriving within one minute of the schedule – almost half of all trains were late. Even using the industry’s preferred measure, where “on time” is within five minutes of the schedule for commuter trains and 10 minutes on long-distance routes, nearly a fifth of trains were late. At the worst operator, Virgin Trains West Coast, this figure was 29%. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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