Friday, 14 August 2026

26,596 passenger trains were recorded on Friday, 14 August 2026 and 463 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.

26,596 passenger services were recorded as having been scheduled and settled on this date. Arrival times reached the archive for only 2,890 of them, so nothing is claimed here about how late the rest were — the figures below cover what ran and what did not.

Friday carries the heaviest long-distance loading of the week, and it is the day on which a late-afternoon problem has the fewest spare paths to recover into.

463 services were cancelled, 1.7% of everything booked. The reason given most often was “This service has been cancelled because of severe weather”, on 151 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, 11.5% of 1,360 booked runs.

The day in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 2,890 trains whose arrival reached the archive — not of all 26,596, and the bands are exclusive. 23,243 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 3,115 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 397 of the 463 cancellations (85.7%), 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 43m behind schedule — London St Pancras (Intl) to Faversham, booked away at 22:20, run by Southeastern. The ten longest range from 1h 43m down to 51 min, and they belong to 8 operators, Southeastern 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

16,125 buses from 170 operators were seen on this date, across 2,873,518 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 14 Aug 2026 itself. How these figures are measured · Sources and licences