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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Michael Goodier and Josh Halliday

Train cancellations in Great Britain hit highest level on record

People walking along a station platform next to a  Avanti West Coast train
Avanti West Coast is in line for a £1m government ‘performance fee’ – despite cutting its timetable by 40% from 2019 levels and cancelling one in 10 scheduled trains. Photograph: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images

Rail cancellations have reached their highest level on record with more than 314,000 trains fully or partly cancelled across Great Britain in a year, a Guardian analysis reveals.

Figures from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) show that the proportion of cancelled services has more than doubled since 2015, rising to one in 26 of all train journeys being disrupted in the year to 15 October, the latest date for which figures are available.

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