Train punctuality and cancellations, Great Britain
Accredited official statistics; the latest quarter provisional
The share of trains in Great Britain arriving at their recorded station stops within 59 seconds and within 3 minutes of time, each quarter since April to June 2014, and the cancellations score since April to June 2019, from the ORR's tables 3133 and 3123.
Trains on time
68.06%
Q2 2026 · provisional
Verified against source, 7 November 2026, 06:54 UTC- On time (within 59 seconds)
- Within 3 minutes
- Cancellations score
Source: Office of Rail and Road. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
49 periods, newest first
| Period | On time (within 59 seconds) | Within 3 minutes | Cancellations score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | 68.06% | 84.98% | 4.07% |
| Q1 2026 | 68.79% | 86.41% | 3.21% |
| Q4 2025 | 62.17% | 81.54% | 3.97% |
| Q3 2025 | 66.79% | 84.77% | 3.75% |
| Q2 2025 | 68.99% | 86.27% | 3.18% |
| Q1 2025 | 68.09% | 85.95% | 3.43% |
| Q4 2024 | 62.11% | 81.08% | 5.11% |
| Q3 2024 | 67.66% | 85.10% | 4.23% |
| Q2 2024 | 70.11% | 86.91% | 3.49% |
| Q1 2024 | 68.26% | 85.92% | 3.32% |
| Q4 2023 | 62.15% | 81.15% | 4.86% |
| Q3 2023 | 69.22% | 86.35% | 3.51% |
| Q2 2023 | 70.73% | 87.12% | 3.28% |
| Q1 2023 | 68.20% | 85.77% | 3.38% |
| Q4 2022 | 62.28% | 81.60% | 4.44% |
| Q3 2022 | 67.73% | 85.39% | 4.08% |
| Q2 2022 | 72.58% | 88.75% | 3.12% |
| Q1 2022 | 72.50% | 88.99% | 3.87% |
| Q4 2021 | 67.67% | 85.87% | 3.71% |
| Q3 2021 | 74.44% | 90.10% | 3.36% |
| Q2 2021 | 78.10% | 92.23% | 2.29% |
| Q1 2021 | 80.46% | 93.12% | 2.38% |
| Q4 2020 | 74.75% | 90.68% | 2.36% |
| Q3 2020 | 79.36% | 92.82% | 2.12% |
| Q2 2020 | 86.49% | 95.80% | 1.23% |
| Q1 2020 | 65.71% | 84.24% | 3.76% |
| Q4 2019 | 59.39% | 79.67% | 4.09% |
| Q3 2019 | 65.12% | 84.23% | 3.38% |
| Q2 2019 | 69.50% | 87.54% | 2.42% |
| Q1 2019 | 66.95% | 85.94% | – |
| Q4 2018 | 58.96% | 79.57% | – |
| Q3 2018 | 63.18% | 82.72% | – |
| Q2 2018 | 64.87% | 84.21% | – |
| Q1 2018 | 62.33% | 82.97% | – |
| Q4 2017 | 57.25% | 79.18% | – |
| Q3 2017 | 64.56% | 85.19% | – |
| Q2 2017 | 67.05% | 86.80% | – |
| Q1 2017 | 64.21% | 84.79% | – |
| Q4 2016 | 56.11% | 78.52% | – |
| Q3 2016 | 62.28% | 83.55% | – |
| Q2 2016 | 65.27% | 85.63% | – |
| Q1 2016 | 63.24% | 84.38% | – |
| Q4 2015 | 57.04% | 79.43% | – |
| Q3 2015 | 65.14% | 85.80% | – |
| Q2 2015 | 67.51% | 87.27% | – |
| Q1 2015 | 65.63% | 85.68% | – |
| Q4 2014 | 58.65% | 80.56% | – |
| Q3 2014 | 65.61% | 85.92% | – |
| Q2 2014 | 67.82% | 87.64% | – |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office of Rail and Road
- Check it yourself
- https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 7 November 2026, 06:48 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/table-3133-train-punctuality-at-recorded-station-stops-by-operator/SHA-256 8459b700b28c0fd53434afc9208cd324d3c1def3ef9287186c083113497b72e9 · 35,914 bytes
- https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/1425/table-3133-train-punctuality-at-recorded-station-stops-by-operator.ods?cb=b626285d-23ba-409b-8a89-81a1e9162292SHA-256 60b191ca45fdda7dfcfa18ff8367201f9378866b1d4915e984255c7d26af91a2 · 164,216 bytes
- https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/table-3123-trains-planned-and-cancellations-by-operator-and-cause/SHA-256 5e1f5bfc41f05d87b2b3c415e31c48dbf0c1128e7d93084f17afa0917b1697c6 · 35,909 bytes
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Verification
Verified against source, 7 November 2026, 06:54 UTC Run at 7 November 2026, 06:54 UTC; 147 of 147 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office of Rail and Road; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-07T06:48:31Z; 4 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 4 of 4 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 147 of 147 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 147 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 147 of 147 figures match exactly after downloading 4 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | ORR tables are current | latest quarter 2026 Q2 ended 130 days before retrieval (limit 200) |
| Not run | Second official route | no second route is published: the ORR gives Great Britain's quarterly punctuality and cancellations only in tables 3133 and 3123; its periodic figures (table 3138) run over four-week periods, not quarters |
| Pass | Each moving annual total is its four quarters' station stops | 46 of 46 cases of the quarters' moving annual totals of recorded station stops are the four quarters to them added up, within a hundredth of a stop within 0.01 (0 exactly) |
| Pass | Each cancellations score counts a part cancellation as half | 29 of 29 cases of the quarters' cancellations are the trains fully cancelled plus half those part cancelled, within a thousandth of a train within 0.001 (29 exactly) |
| Pass | The causes add up to the cancellations | 29 of 29 cases of the quarters' cancellations by responsibility add up to all cancellations, within a thousandth of a train within 0.001 (29 exactly) |
| Pass | Each score is the cancellations of the trains planned | 29 of 29 cases of the quarters' scores are their cancellations over the trains planned, within a millionth of a point within 1e-06 (29 exactly) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/ – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Station stops at which a train arrived within 59 seconds, or within 3 minutes, of its scheduled time, as a share of all recorded station stops on Great Britain's railways, from Network Rail's records.
- The cancellations score counts a train part cancelled as half a cancellation and one fully cancelled as one, as a share of trains planned.
- The ORR marks its latest quarter provisional.