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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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