Press Release
National rail train performance for period eight is 89.3 per cent
23 November 2011
Punctuality on the railways reached 89.3% during Period 8, according to monthly performance data released today by Network Rail. The data for Britain's train services covers the period from 16 October 2011 - 12 November 2011. This compares to 86.5% for the same period last year. The moving annual average is now at 90.6%.
Period 8 of 2011/12: 16 October 2011 - 12 November 2011
|
Franchise |
Punctuality % |
Punctuality % |
Moving Annual |
|
|
P8, 2011/12 |
P8, 2010/11 |
Average (MAA) % |
|
|
|
Arriva Trains Wales |
93.0 |
91.6 |
93.2 |
|
|
c2c Rail |
97.8 |
92.8 |
95.3 |
|
|
Chiltern |
93.0 |
91.5 |
92.8 |
|
|
Crosscountry |
85.5 |
84.3 |
87.6 |
|
|
East Coast |
87.3 |
85.0 |
83.3 |
|
|
East MidlandsTrains |
92.0 |
89.2 |
92.1 |
|
|
First Capital Connect |
87.2 |
84.1 |
89.3 |
|
|
First Great Western |
88.2 |
86.6 |
89.9 |
|
|
First Scotrail |
88.7 |
86.9 |
88.6 |
|
|
First Transpennine Express |
90.6 |
87.0 |
91.3 |
|
|
London Midland |
86.0 |
85.4 |
89.3 |
|
|
London Overground |
96.2 |
94.5 |
95.8 |
|
|
Merseyrail |
92.3 |
94.0 |
94.8 |
|
|
National Express East Anglia |
89.3 |
86.7 |
90.3 |
|
|
Northern Rail |
88.0 |
81.8 |
90.8 |
|
|
Southeastern |
88.0 |
83.4 |
89.9 |
|
|
Southern |
88.1 |
83.1 |
89.2 |
|
|
Stagecoach South West Trains |
91.5 |
89.6 |
92.7 |
|
|
Virgin Trains |
77.5 |
85.5 |
83.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
National |
89.3 |
86.5 |
90.6 |
|
Notes:
Performance on the West Coast Main Line (WCML), particularly impacting upon Virgin's services, dipped during period 8 with external factors and infrastructure problems being the main causes. The top five incidents during the month that had a substantial effect on Virgin's PPM figures were the dewirement of overhead power-lines at North Wembley on 5th November; three major cable thefts at Winsford (near Crewe) on 20th and 21st October and at Nuneaton on 27th October; and a signalling problem at Wolverhampton on 11th November
Around £20m of extra funding is being injected into a number of initiatives to improve the underlying performance of the infrastructure on the WCML, particularly targeting small track renewals to remove speed restrictions
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
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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