Gatwick Express
Gatwick Express appears on 49 archived days from 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026, running 72 services a day. 67% of its recorded arrivals were within five minutes, which is below the network as a whole.
2,529 arrivals were recorded across the window, 1,689 of them within five minutes and 27 more than half an hour late. At this volume a single badly delayed working is worth a visible fraction of a percentage point.
Volume moved between 64 services on Sunday, 13 September 2026 and 74 on Saturday, 5 September 2026.
The average delay at destination was 4.9 minutes. No Gatwick Express service reached any day's list of the ten longest delays on the network.
The day-to-day spread is wide — 52 points between its best day, Sunday, 20 September 2026 at 90%, and its worst, Saturday, 19 September 2026 at 38%.
110 services were cancelled, 3.1% of everything booked — above the 2.4% the network cancelled over the same dates. The worst single day was Thursday, 10 September 2026, at 22% of that day's timetable.
Counting those cancellations as failures, the way the industry's own measure does, takes the on-time share from 67% of recorded arrivals to 64% of everything booked whose outcome is known — 2.8 points.
Ranked on on-time share of recorded arrivals against the 30 operators with enough of them to compare, Gatwick Express comes 27th.
Gatwick Express in numbers
| Archived days covered | 49 | 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Passenger trains recorded | 3,513 | |
| Share of the national timetable | 0.3% | of 1,203,226 over the same dates |
| Cancelled | 110 | 3.1% · network 2.4% |
| Arrival time recorded | 2,529 | 74.3% of those that ran |
| …arrived within 5 minutes | 1,689 | 66.8% |
| …arrived 5 to 30 minutes late | 813 | 32.1% |
| …arrived more than 30 minutes late | 27 | 1.1% |
| Average delay at destination | 4.9 min | |
| On time, counting cancellations | 64.0% | of the 2,639 booked services whose outcome is known · network 84% |
| Network, same dates | 87% | on time, against this operator's 67% |
Every percentage among the bands is of the 2,529 services whose arrival reached the archive, not of all 3,513, and the bands are exclusive. 874 ran without an arrival being recorded, and nothing is claimed about those. The row counting cancellations is those same 1,689 on-time arrivals over a denominator that also holds the 110 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.
Recorded live from the Darwin and TRUST feeds on each of the 49 days above,
and aggregated here. GX is this operator's ATOC code. How these figures are measured · All operators · Sources and licences