TransPennine Express
TransPennine Express appears on 49 archived days from 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026, running 400 services a day. 82% of its recorded arrivals were within five minutes, which is below the network as a whole.
12,792 arrivals were recorded across the window, 10,466 of them within five minutes and 141 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: 755 services on Wednesday, 23 September 2026 against 311 on Sunday, 30 August 2026, a swing of 2.4 times.
The average delay at destination was 2.5 minutes. The worst single arrival recorded was 1h 53m behind schedule, Manchester Piccadilly to York on Friday, 28 August 2026.
The day-to-day spread is wide — 37 points between its best day, Sunday, 6 September 2026 at 94%, and its worst, Friday, 28 August 2026 at 57%.
388 services were cancelled, 2.0% of everything booked — close to the 2.4% the network cancelled over the same dates. The worst single day was Friday, 28 August 2026, at 11% of that day's timetable.
Counting those cancellations as failures, the way the industry's own measure does, takes the on-time share from 82% of recorded arrivals to 79% of everything booked whose outcome is known — 2.4 points.
Ranked on on-time share of recorded arrivals against the 30 operators with enough of them to compare, TransPennine Express comes 20th.
TransPennine Express in numbers
| Archived days covered | 49 | 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Passenger trains recorded | 19,577 | |
| Share of the national timetable | 1.6% | of 1,203,226 over the same dates |
| Cancelled | 388 | 2.0% · network 2.4% |
| Arrival time recorded | 12,792 | 66.7% of those that ran |
| …arrived within 5 minutes | 10,466 | 81.8% |
| …arrived 5 to 30 minutes late | 2,185 | 17.1% |
| …arrived more than 30 minutes late | 141 | 1.1% |
| Average delay at destination | 2.5 min | |
| On time, counting cancellations | 79.4% | of the 13,180 booked services whose outcome is known · network 84% |
| Network, same dates | 87% | on time, against this operator's 82% |
Every percentage among the bands is of the 12,792 services whose arrival reached the archive, not of all 19,577, and the bands are exclusive. 6,397 ran without an arrival being recorded, and nothing is claimed about those. The row counting cancellations is those same 10,466 on-time arrivals over a denominator that also holds the 388 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
TransPennine Express appears 9 times across 49 archived days, on 7 separate dates in the ten shown. These are appearances in the daily league, not this operator's own worst delays.
| Date | Service | Late by |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2026 | Manchester Piccadilly to York 06:00 · 2U27 | 1h 53m |
| 28 Aug 2026 | York to Manchester Airport 06:17 · 1P58 | 1h 52m |
| 11 Sept 2026 | Glasgow Central to Manchester Airport 07:11 · 1M82 | 1h 48m |
| 11 Sept 2026 | Edinburgh to Manchester Airport 06:12 · 1M81 | 1h 46m |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Glasgow Central to Manchester Airport 04:52 · 1M80 | 1h 35m |
| 14 Sept 2026 | Middlesbrough to York 17:14 · 1G82 | 1h 32m |
| 31 Aug 2026 | Darlington to Manchester Victoria 06:06 · 1P10 | 1h 30m |
| 30 Aug 2026 | Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle 19:25 · 9E19 | 1h 19m |
| 6 Aug 2026 | Edinburgh to Manchester Airport 20:12 · 1M65 | 1h 02m |
Recorded live from the Darwin and TRUST feeds on each of the 49 days above,
and aggregated here. TP is this operator's ATOC code. How these figures are measured · All operators · Sources and licences