Grand Central

Grand Central appears on 93 archived days from 6 Aug 2026 to 7 Nov 2026, running 21 services a day. 53% of its recorded arrivals were within five minutes, which is below the network as a whole.

1,547 arrivals were recorded across the window, 821 of them within five minutes and 121 more than half an hour late. At this volume a single badly delayed working is worth a visible fraction of a percentage point.

Its week is strongly peaked: 29 services on Saturday, 8 August 2026 against 8 on Sunday, 1 November 2026, a swing of 3.6 times.

The average delay at destination was 9.6 minutes. The worst single arrival recorded was 2h 07m behind schedule, London Kings Cross to Bradford Interchange on Tuesday, 29 September 2026.

The day-to-day spread is wide — 65 points between its best day, Wednesday, 19 August 2026 at 85%, and its worst, Wednesday, 7 October 2026 at 20%.

58 services were cancelled, 3.0% of everything booked — above the 2.3% the network cancelled over the same dates. The worst single day was Friday, 6 November 2026, at 17% of that day's timetable.

Counting those cancellations as failures, the way the industry's own measure does, takes the on-time share from 53% of recorded arrivals to 51% of everything booked whose outcome is known — 1.9 points.

Ranked on on-time share of recorded arrivals against the 34 operators with enough of them to compare, Grand Central comes 33rd.

Grand Central in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 1,547 services whose arrival reached the archive, not of all 1,909, and the bands are exclusive. 304 ran without an arrival being recorded, and nothing is claimed about those. The row counting cancellations is those same 821 on-time arrivals over a denominator that also holds the 58 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

93 archived days, 6 Aug 2026 to 7 Nov 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

Grand Central appears 7 times across 93 archived days, on 6 separate dates in the ten shown. These are appearances in the daily league, not this operator's own worst delays.

Recorded live from the Darwin and TRUST feeds on each of the 93 days above, and aggregated here. GC is this operator's ATOC code. How these figures are measured · All operators · Sources and licences