Gatwick Express

Gatwick Express appears on 93 archived days from 6 Aug 2026 to 7 Nov 2026, running 71 services a day. 70% of its recorded arrivals were within five minutes, which is below the network as a whole.

5,341 arrivals were recorded across the window, 3,742 of them within five minutes and 39 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: 74 services on Friday, 23 October 2026 against 1 on Saturday, 10 October 2026, a swing of 74.0 times.

The average delay at destination was 4.5 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%.

165 services were cancelled, 2.5% of everything booked — close to the 2.3% 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 70% of recorded arrivals to 68% of everything booked whose outcome is known — 2.1 points.

Ranked on on-time share of recorded arrivals against the 34 operators with enough of them to compare, Gatwick Express comes 27th.

Gatwick Express in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 5,341 services whose arrival reached the archive, not of all 6,585, and the bands are exclusive. 1,079 ran without an arrival being recorded, and nothing is claimed about those. The row counting cancellations is those same 3,742 on-time arrivals over a denominator that also holds the 165 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.

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