Merseyrail

97% of Merseyrail's 44,223 recorded arrivals from 6 Aug 2026 to 7 Nov 2026 were within five minutes, putting it 10.3 points clear of the network average for the same dates.

Over 94 archived days that is 640 services a day, 2.6% of the national timetable. Of 44,223 recorded arrivals, 43,076 were within five minutes and 25 were more than half an hour down.

Its week is strongly peaked: 900 services on Sunday, 1 November 2026 against 289 on Sunday, 13 September 2026, a swing of 3.1 times.

The average delay at destination was 0.3 minutes. The worst single arrival recorded was 1h 08m behind schedule, Liverpool Central to Southport on Friday, 16 October 2026.

Between Monday, 26 October 2026 at 88% and Monday, 14 September 2026 at 100% there are 12 points.

519 services were cancelled, 0.9% of everything booked — below the 2.3% the network cancelled over the same dates. The worst single day was Saturday, 7 November 2026, at 9% of that day's timetable.

Counting those cancellations as failures, the way the industry's own measure does, takes the on-time share from 97% of recorded arrivals to 96% of everything booked whose outcome is known — 1.1 points.

Ranked on on-time share of recorded arrivals against the 34 operators with enough of them to compare, Merseyrail comes second.

Merseyrail in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 44,223 services whose arrival reached the archive, not of all 60,195, and the bands are exclusive. 15,453 ran without an arrival being recorded, and nothing is claimed about those. The row counting cancellations is those same 43,076 on-time arrivals over a denominator that also holds the 519 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

94 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

Merseyrail appears 1 time across 94 archived days, on 1 date 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 94 days above, and aggregated here. ME is this operator's ATOC code. How these figures are measured · All operators · Sources and licences