ScotRail

ScotRail ran 139,130 services from 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026 — 12% of everything on the network — and kept 95% of its recorded arrivals within five minutes, 7.8 points better than the railway as a whole managed on the same days.

That is around 2,839 services a day. 81,594 arrivals were recorded: 77,635 within five minutes, 3,853 between five and thirty minutes down, and 106 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 0.6 minutes. The worst single arrival recorded was 6h 05m behind schedule, Alloa to Glasgow Queen Street on Thursday, 27 August 2026.

Across every comparable day in the window the on-time share stayed between 91% and 99%, a range of 8 points — its best day was Thursday, 3 September 2026 and its worst Thursday, 27 August 2026.

588 services were cancelled, 0.4% of everything booked — below the 2.4% the network cancelled over the same dates. The worst single day was Thursday, 20 August 2026, at 1% of that day's timetable.

Ranked on on-time share of recorded arrivals against the 30 operators with enough of them to compare, ScotRail comes sixth.

ScotRail in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 81,594 services whose arrival reached the archive, not of all 139,130, and the bands are exclusive. 56,948 ran without an arrival being recorded, and nothing is claimed about those. The row counting cancellations is those same 77,635 on-time arrivals over a denominator that also holds the 588 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.

In the daily longest-delay league

ScotRail appears 18 times across 49 archived days, on 6 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 49 days above, and aggregated here. SR is this operator's ATOC code. How these figures are measured · All operators · Sources and licences