Sunday, 9 August 2026

16,520 passenger trains were recorded on Sunday, 9 August 2026 and 182 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.

16,520 passenger services were recorded as having been scheduled and settled on this date. Arrival times reached the archive for only 1,514 of them, so nothing is claimed here about how late the rest were — the figures below cover what ran and what did not.

A weekend timetable, so the 16,520 recorded runs are well below a weekday's — most engineering possessions land here too, which shortens some routes and removes others entirely.

182 services were cancelled, 1.1% of everything booked. The reason given most often was “This service has been cancelled because of a shortage of train drivers”, on 117 of them. Cancellation reasons are close to complete even on days like this, and they are the operators' own wording, reproduced unedited.

CrossCountry lost the largest share of its own timetable, 14.3% of 230 booked runs.

The day in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 1,514 trains whose arrival reached the archive — not of all 16,520, and the bands are exclusive. 14,824 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 1,645 runs down to North Yorkshire Moors Railway on 4. Ordered by volume, not performance — any heading re-sorts it.

Why trains were late

7 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 182 of the 182 cancellations (100.0%), across 7 distinct reasons. A run cancelled part-way along often carries no reason at all.

The longest delays

The worst of them arrived 1h 11m behind schedule — Leeds to Blackpool North, booked away at 21:57, run by Northern. The ten longest range from 1h 11m down to 38 min, and they belong to 5 operators, Southern accounting for 4. What a delay on that scale usually means.

Through the day

Booked departures by hour.

The quietest was 03:00 with 18.

Buses

11,116 buses from 121 operators were seen on this date, across 2,000,953 position reports.

Bus punctuality was not yet being archived on this date, so only vehicle activity is shown. Nothing before that can be recovered.

Recorded live from the Darwin and TRUST feeds on 9 Aug 2026 itself. How these figures are measured · Sources and licences