Wednesday, 12 August 2026

26,468 passenger trains were recorded on Wednesday, 12 August 2026 and 251 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.

26,468 passenger services were recorded as having been scheduled and settled on this date. Arrival times reached the archive for only 324 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.

251 services were cancelled, 0.9% of everything booked. The reason given most often was “This service has been cancelled because of severe weather”, on 83 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, 9.6% of 355 booked runs.

The day in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 324 trains whose arrival reached the archive — not of all 26,468, and the bands are exclusive. 25,893 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 3,098 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 238 of the 251 cancellations (94.8%), 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 48m behind schedule — Rochdale to Leeds, booked away at 22:41, run by Northern. The ten longest range from 1h 48m down to 1h 16m, and they belong to 4 operators, Northern accounting for 7. What a delay on that scale usually means.

Through the day

Booked departures by hour.

The quietest was 02:00 with 12.

Buses

16,490 buses from 169 operators were seen on this date, across 3,053,399 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 12 Aug 2026 itself. How these figures are measured · Sources and licences