Eight out of ten trains arrive on time despite extreme weather

Despite the severe weather over the past month, eight out of 10 trains still ran to time and almost 92%, or 19,000 each weekday, of scheduled services ran.

The figures were released today in Network Rail's regular monthly report on train performance that, during the four weeks from 13 December to 9 January, 80% of services arrived on time.  This compares to 89.8% in period 10 last year.

Train punctuality was affected by the severe weather with a reasonable service being provided on almost...