Monday, 9 November 2026

25,269 passenger trains were recorded on Monday, 9 November 2026 and 469 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.

25,269 passenger services were recorded as having been scheduled and settled on this date. Arrival times reached the archive for only 7,193 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.

469 services were cancelled, 1.9% of everything booked. The reason given most often was “This service has been cancelled because of forecasted slippery rails”, on 172 of them. Cancellation reasons are close to complete even on days like this, and they are the operators' own wording, reproduced unedited.

Elizabeth line lost the largest share of its own timetable, 15.6% of 678 booked runs.

Buses on this date: 133,455 journeys followed to their destination, 70.0% on time.

The day in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 7,193 trains whose arrival reached the archive — not of all 25,269, and the bands are exclusive. 17,607 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

36 operators ran passenger services on this date, from ScotRail on 2,969 runs down to West Coast Railway Co 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 357 of the 469 cancellations (76.1%), across 8 distinct reasons. A run cancelled part-way along often carries no reason at all.

The longest delays

The worst of them arrived 3h 37m behind schedule — London Charing Cross to Hastings, booked away at 17:15, run by Southeastern. The ten longest range from 3h 37m down to 1h 15m, and they belong to 5 operators, London North Eastern Railway accounting for 4. What a delay on that scale usually means.

Through the day

Booked departures by hour.

The quietest was 02:00 with 12.

What ran

Formations were recorded for 26,830 trains on this date, made up of 2,912 individual units and 12,836 separate vehicles. These figures cover the services an allocation was published for, not every train that ran.

25 different classes of train appeared, which is the signature of a full weekday — the long-distance fleets, the regional diesel units and the suburban electrics all working at once.

The most-used class was the 377, allocated to 3,294 of the day's recorded trains from a pool of 217 units.

The average train was 5.6 vehicles long. The longest formation recorded was 16 vehicles.

Of 25,269 runs, 26,830 had a formation published (106%) — these are allocations rather than observations.

Buses

17,350 buses from 186 operators were seen on this date, across 3,158,651 position reports.

133,455 bus journeys were followed to their destination on this date. 93,482 arrived on time, 6,495 late, and 33,478 — 25% — arrived ahead of schedule.

Early arrivals are normal rather than exceptional. Bus running times carry enough slack to survive traffic, and it is concentrated in the last leg, so a clear run simply finishes sooner than booked.

Averaged across every journey, buses arrived 0.2 minutes ahead of schedule — the early arrivals outweighing the late ones.

By operator

Of the operators with enough journeys to compare, Uni-Link ran closest to time (92%), and National Express furthest from it (36%).

Our figures, not the regulator's — why buses run early, the current league.

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