Thursday, 6 August 2026

25,721 passenger trains were recorded on Thursday, 6 August 2026 and 131 of them were cancelled. Arrival times were not captured for most of this day, so it is a record of what ran rather than of how punctual it was.

25,721 passenger services were recorded as having been scheduled and settled on this date. Arrival times reached the archive for only 190 of them, so nothing is claimed here about how late the rest were — the figures below cover what ran and what did not.

An ordinary weekday timetable, with the two commuter peaks that give the network most of its work and least of its slack.

131 services were cancelled, 0.5% of everything booked. The reason given most often was “This service has been cancelled because of a fire next to the track”, on 82 of them. Cancellation reasons are close to complete even on days like this, and they are the operators' own wording, reproduced unedited.

Transport for Wales lost the largest share of its own timetable, 6.0% of 1,377 booked runs.

The day in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 190 trains whose arrival reached the archive — not of all 25,721, and the bands are exclusive. 25,400 trains ran without an arrival time being recorded, and nothing is claimed about how punctual those were. Delay is judged at the destination, a stricter test than the industry's own measure and not comparable with it.

By operator

38 operators ran passenger services on this date, from ScotRail on 3,073 runs down to TY on 4. Ordered by volume, not performance — any heading re-sorts it.

Why trains were late

8 different reasons were given for delay on this date, each reproduced in the operator's own words.

Why trains were cancelled

A reason reached the archive for 127 of the 131 cancellations (96.9%), across 8 distinct reasons. A run cancelled part-way along often carries no reason at all.

The longest delays

The worst of them arrived 1h 02m behind schedule — Edinburgh to Manchester Airport, booked away at 20:12, run by TransPennine Express. The ten longest range from 1h 02m down to 28 min, and they belong to 5 operators, Northern accounting for 3. What a delay on that scale usually means.

Through the day

Booked departures by hour.

The quietest was 02:00 with 14.

Recorded live from the Darwin and TRUST feeds on 6 Aug 2026 itself. How these figures are measured · Sources and licences