ScotRail

ScotRail ran 267,102 services from 6 Aug 2026 to 7 Nov 2026 — 11% of everything on the network — and kept 92% of its recorded arrivals within five minutes, 5.2 points better than the railway as a whole managed on the same days.

That is around 2,842 services a day. 172,446 arrivals were recorded: 159,118 within five minutes, 12,784 between five and thirty minutes down, and 544 more than half an hour late.

Its week is strongly peaked: 3,162 services on Monday, 31 August 2026 against 1,565 on Sunday, 16 August 2026, a swing of 2.0 times.

The average delay at destination was 1.2 minutes. The worst single arrival recorded was 9h 57m behind schedule, Motherwell to Dalmuir on Thursday, 29 October 2026.

The day-to-day spread is wide — 32 points between its best day, Thursday, 3 September 2026 at 99%, and its worst, Monday, 26 October 2026 at 67%.

1,699 services were cancelled, 0.6% of everything booked — below the 2.3% the network cancelled over the same dates. The worst single day was Sunday, 25 October 2026, at 10% of that day's timetable.

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

ScotRail in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 172,446 services whose arrival reached the archive, not of all 267,102, and the bands are exclusive. 92,957 ran without an arrival being recorded, and nothing is claimed about those. The row counting cancellations is those same 159,118 on-time arrivals over a denominator that also holds the 1,699 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

ScotRail appears 40 times across 94 archived days, on 5 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 94 days above, and aggregated here. SR is this operator's ATOC code. How these figures are measured · All operators · Sources and licences