Grand Central
Grand Central appears on 48 archived days from 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026, running 22 services a day. 54% of its recorded arrivals were within five minutes, which is below the network as a whole.
736 arrivals were recorded across the window, 397 of them within five minutes and 62 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 18 on Sunday, 20 September 2026, a swing of 1.6 times.
The average delay at destination was 9.5 minutes. The worst single arrival recorded was 1h 56m behind schedule, Bradford Interchange to London Kings Cross on Monday, 24 August 2026.
The day-to-day spread is wide — 65 points between its best day, Wednesday, 19 August 2026 at 85%, and its worst, Thursday, 27 August 2026 at 20%.
27 services were cancelled, 2.6% of everything booked — close to the 2.4% the network cancelled over the same dates. The worst single day was Friday, 4 September 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 54% of recorded arrivals to 52% of everything booked whose outcome is known — 1.9 points.
Ranked on on-time share of recorded arrivals against the 30 operators with enough of them to compare, Grand Central comes 29th.
Grand Central in numbers
| Archived days covered | 48 | 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Passenger trains recorded | 1,044 | |
| Share of the national timetable | 0.1% | of 1,186,006 over the same dates |
| Cancelled | 27 | 2.6% · network 2.4% |
| Arrival time recorded | 736 | 72.4% of those that ran |
| …arrived within 5 minutes | 397 | 53.9% |
| …arrived 5 to 30 minutes late | 277 | 37.6% |
| …arrived more than 30 minutes late | 62 | 8.4% |
| Average delay at destination | 9.5 min | |
| On time, counting cancellations | 52.0% | of the 763 booked services whose outcome is known · network 84% |
| Network, same dates | 87% | on time, against this operator's 54% |
Every percentage among the bands is of the 736 services whose arrival reached the archive, not of all 1,044, and the bands are exclusive. 281 ran without an arrival being recorded, and nothing is claimed about those. The row counting cancellations is those same 397 on-time arrivals over a denominator that also holds the 27 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
48 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
Grand Central appears 4 times across 48 archived days, on 3 separate dates in the ten shown. These are appearances in the daily league, not this operator's own worst delays.
| Date | Service | Late by |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug 2026 | Bradford Interchange to London Kings Cross 08:56 · 1A70 | 1h 56m |
| 31 Aug 2026 | London Kings Cross to Sunderland 17:00 · 1N95 | 1h 28m |
| 31 Aug 2026 | Sunderland to London Kings Cross 12:32 · 1A65 | 1h 16m |
| 10 Sept 2026 | London Kings Cross to Sunderland 13:00 · 1N93 | 1h 14m |
Recorded live from the Darwin and TRUST feeds on each of the 48 days above,
and aggregated here. GC is this operator's ATOC code. How these figures are measured · All operators · Sources and licences