Thursday, 13 August 2026

26,210 passenger trains were recorded on Thursday, 13 August 2026 and 1,050 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.

26,210 passenger services were recorded as having been scheduled and settled on this date. Arrival times reached the archive for only 1,003 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.

1,050 services were cancelled, 4.0% of everything booked. The reason given most often was “This service has been cancelled because of forecasted severe weather”, on 448 of them. Cancellation reasons are close to complete even on days like this, and they are the operators' own wording, reproduced unedited.

Chiltern Railways lost the largest share of its own timetable, 14.8% of 351 booked runs.

The day in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 1,003 trains whose arrival reached the archive — not of all 26,210, and the bands are exclusive. 24,157 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 916 of the 1,050 cancellations (87.2%), across 8 distinct reasons. A run cancelled part-way along often carries no reason at all.

The longest delays

The worst of them arrived 2h 46m behind schedule — London Euston to London Euston, booked away at 22:47, run by an operator. The ten longest range from 2h 46m down to 1h 00m, and they belong to 7 operators, Avanti West Coast accounting for 3. What a delay on that scale usually means.

Through the day

Booked departures by hour.

The quietest was 02:00 with 10.

Buses

16,585 buses from 164 operators were seen on this date, across 3,000,080 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 13 Aug 2026 itself. How these figures are measured · Sources and licences