Monday 14 September 2026

The shape of the day

• Busiest hour: 08:00–09:00, with 1,827 services reaching their destination.
• Worst hour: 00:00–01:00, 18 min late on average.
• Half of all timed arrivals were on time; four in five were within 4 min.
• 139 services cancelled outright; 28 cancelled at some stops.
• 169 platform changes across 22,891 arrivals with a platform.

By country

• Great Britain: 28,645 services, 84% within 5 minutes of 17,782 timed arrivals.
• Ireland: 1 services, 0 timed arrivals (under the 20 needed for a rate).

The day's reasons

The reasons the feeds gave, by how many services carried each. The wording is the operator's own; codes without a published text are shown as codes.

1. This service has been delayed by a fault with the signalling systemdelays763services
2. This service has been delayed by a late running train being in front of this onedelays611services
3. This service has been delayed by a speed restrictiondelays608services
4. This service has been delayed by the emergency services dealing with an incidentdelays370services
5. This service has been delayed by a speed restriction over defective trackdelays306services
6. This service has been delayed by a safety inspection of the trackdelays209services
7. This service has been delayed by congestiondelays112services
8. This service has been delayed by the train departing late to maintain customer connectionsdelays106services
9. This service has been delayed by a fault on a traindelays102services
10. This service has been delayed by a late running freight traindelays85services
11. This service has been delayed by a fault on this traindelays83services
12. This service has been delayed by a fault on a train earlierdelays72services
13. This service has been delayed by a problem currently under investigationdelays65services
14. This service has been delayed by a fault with the signalling system earlier todaydelays65services
15. This service has been delayed by a safety inspection of the track earlier todaydelays63services