Tuesday, 11 August 2026

25,677 passenger trains were recorded on Tuesday, 11 August 2026 and 287 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.

25,677 passenger services were recorded as having been scheduled and settled on this date. Arrival times reached the archive for only 3,163 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.

287 services were cancelled, 1.1% of everything booked. The reason given most often was “This service has been cancelled because of forecasted severe weather”, on 82 of them. Cancellation reasons are close to complete even on days like this, and they are the operators' own wording, reproduced unedited.

West Midlands Railway lost the largest share of its own timetable, 9.6% of 1,278 booked runs.

The day in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 3,163 trains whose arrival reached the archive — not of all 25,677, and the bands are exclusive. 22,227 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

37 operators ran passenger services on this date, from ScotRail on 2,995 runs down to North Yorkshire Moors Railway on 8. 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 173 of the 287 cancellations (60.3%), 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 18m behind schedule — Leeds to Sheffield, booked away at 22:32, run by Northern. The ten longest range from 1h 18m down to 41 min, and they belong to 4 operators, Northern accounting for 4. What a delay on that scale usually means.

Through the day

Booked departures by hour.

The quietest was 02:00 with 9.

Buses

16,423 buses from 163 operators were seen on this date, across 3,099,137 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 11 Aug 2026 itself. How these figures are measured · Sources and licences