East Midlands Railway
East Midlands Railway recorded 28,078 services from 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026 and cancelled 512 of them. Of those whose arrival was captured, 76% were within five minutes — below the national figure for the same days.
Over 49 archived days that is 573 services a day, 2.3% of the national timetable. Of 17,356 recorded arrivals, 13,204 were within five minutes and 365 were more than half an hour down.
Its week is strongly peaked: 674 services on Saturday, 19 September 2026 against 295 on Sunday, 30 August 2026, a swing of 2.3 times.
The average delay at destination was 3.7 minutes. The worst single arrival recorded was 3h 05m behind schedule, Liverpool Lime Street to Norwich on Friday, 7 August 2026.
The day-to-day spread is wide — 24 points between its best day, Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 88%, and its worst, Saturday, 15 August 2026 at 63%.
512 services were cancelled, 1.8% of everything booked — close to the 2.4% the network cancelled over the same dates. The worst single day was Thursday, 13 August 2026, at 15% of that day's timetable.
Counting those cancellations as failures, the way the industry's own measure does, takes the on-time share from 76% of recorded arrivals to 74% of everything booked whose outcome is known — 2.2 points.
Ranked on on-time share of recorded arrivals against the 30 operators with enough of them to compare, East Midlands Railway comes 23rd.
East Midlands Railway in numbers
| Archived days covered | 49 | 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Passenger trains recorded | 28,078 | |
| Share of the national timetable | 2.3% | of 1,203,226 over the same dates |
| Cancelled | 512 | 1.8% · network 2.4% |
| Arrival time recorded | 17,356 | 63.0% of those that ran |
| …arrived within 5 minutes | 13,204 | 76.1% |
| …arrived 5 to 30 minutes late | 3,787 | 21.8% |
| …arrived more than 30 minutes late | 365 | 2.1% |
| Average delay at destination | 3.7 min | |
| On time, counting cancellations | 73.9% | of the 17,868 booked services whose outcome is known · network 84% |
| Network, same dates | 87% | on time, against this operator's 76% |
Every percentage among the bands is of the 17,356 services whose arrival reached the archive, not of all 28,078, and the bands are exclusive. 10,210 ran without an arrival being recorded, and nothing is claimed about those. The row counting cancellations is those same 13,204 on-time arrivals over a denominator that also holds the 512 trains that did not run at all. Delay is judged at the destination, a stricter test than the industry's own measure and not comparable with it. The on-time share and the average delay answer different questions.
Day by day
49 archived days, 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026, widest bar the busiest, filled to the share that arrived within five minutes. The same days across every operator.
In the daily longest-delay league
East Midlands Railway appears 20 times across 49 archived days, on 7 separate dates in the ten shown. These are appearances in the daily league, not this operator's own worst delays.
| Date | Service | Late by |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Aug 2026 | Liverpool Lime Street to Norwich 15:51 · 1L15 | 3h 05m |
| 23 Aug 2026 | Skegness to Nottingham 12:16 · 2O14 | 2h 59m |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Skegness to Nottingham 15:13 · 2O20 | 2h 05m |
| 11 Sept 2026 | Norwich to Liverpool Lime Street 10:52 · 1R70 | 1h 44m |
| 11 Sept 2026 | Liverpool Lime Street to Norwich 07:48 · 1L07 | 1h 42m |
| 9 Sept 2026 | Liverpool Lime Street to Nottingham 18:51 · 1L18 | 1h 39m |
| 29 Aug 2026 | London St Pancras (Intl) to Sheffield 13:02 · 1F40 | 1h 39m |
| 23 Aug 2026 | Skegness to Nottingham 14:15 · 2O18 | 1h 39m |
| 31 Aug 2026 | Skegness to Nottingham 15:13 · 2O20 | 1h 26m |
| 22 Sept 2026 | London St Pancras (Intl) to Sheffield 14:32 · 1F47 | 1h 23m |
Recorded live from the Darwin and TRUST feeds on each of the 49 days above,
and aggregated here. EM is this operator's ATOC code. How these figures are measured · All operators · Sources and licences