Railways: Standards
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of trains were cancelled in the last six periods.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
Information on train cancellations is published by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) and can be found on their data portal.
Table 1 presents the proportion of planned services that were either partially or fully cancelled in Great Britain, for each of the last six rail periods and the same periods the previous year. Please note that partial cancellations as counted as 1 service, whilst partial cancellations are counted as 0.5.
Table 1. Periodic Cancellations score (Great Britain, Rail Periods1 11 – 3 in 2025 and 2024)
Rail period1 | Proportion of planned trains cancelled in 2025 (%) | Proportion of planned trains cancelled in 2024 (%) | pp change compared to last year |
5 Jan - 1 Feb 2025 (period 11) | 4.1 | 3.3 | +0.8 |
2 Feb - 1 Mar 2025 (period 12) | 3.1 | 3.2 | -0.1 |
2 Mar - 31 Mar 2025 (period 13) | 2.9 | 2.9 | 0.0 |
1 Apr - 26 Apr 2025 (period 01) | 2.9 | 3.2 | -0.3 |
27 Apr - 24 May 2025 (period 02) | 3.0 | 3.2 | -0.3 |
25 May - 21 Jun 2025 (period 03) | 3.4 | 3.8 | -0.4 |
Source: ORR Table 3124
https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/table-3124-trains-planned-and-cancellations-by-operator-and-cause-periodic/
Notes:
1. The rail period dates in this table are for 2025. Dates for rail periods in 2024 differ by a maximum of 2 days but continue to broadly represent the same 4-week periods. More information on rail periods can be seen on the ORR data portal (https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/).
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