Avanti West Coast
Avanti West Coast appears on 49 archived days from 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026, running 379 services a day. 44% of its recorded arrivals were within five minutes, which is below the network as a whole.
10,912 arrivals were recorded across the window, 4,831 of them within five minutes and 784 more than half an hour late. At this volume a single badly delayed working is worth a visible fraction of a percentage point.
Volume moved between 270 services on Sunday, 6 September 2026 and 424 on Friday, 4 September 2026.
The average delay at destination was 10.2 minutes. The worst single arrival recorded was 1h 53m behind schedule, London Euston to Glasgow Central on Saturday, 22 August 2026.
The day-to-day spread is wide — 59 points between its best day, Sunday, 30 August 2026 at 74%, and its worst, Friday, 21 August 2026 at 15%.
430 services were cancelled, 2.3% of everything booked — close to the 2.4% the network cancelled over the same dates. The worst single day was Saturday, 8 August 2026, at 19% of that day's timetable.
Counting those cancellations as failures, the way the industry's own measure does, takes the on-time share from 44% of recorded arrivals to 43% of everything booked whose outcome is known — 1.7 points.
Ranked on on-time share of recorded arrivals against the 30 operators with enough of them to compare, Avanti West Coast comes 30th.
Avanti West Coast in numbers
| Archived days covered | 49 | 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Passenger trains recorded | 18,570 | |
| Share of the national timetable | 1.5% | of 1,203,226 over the same dates |
| Cancelled | 430 | 2.3% · network 2.4% |
| Arrival time recorded | 10,912 | 60.2% of those that ran |
| …arrived within 5 minutes | 4,831 | 44.3% |
| …arrived 5 to 30 minutes late | 5,297 | 48.5% |
| …arrived more than 30 minutes late | 784 | 7.2% |
| Average delay at destination | 10.2 min | |
| On time, counting cancellations | 42.6% | of the 11,342 booked services whose outcome is known · network 84% |
| Network, same dates | 87% | on time, against this operator's 44% |
Every percentage among the bands is of the 10,912 services whose arrival reached the archive, not of all 18,570, and the bands are exclusive. 7,228 ran without an arrival being recorded, and nothing is claimed about those. The row counting cancellations is those same 4,831 on-time arrivals over a denominator that also holds the 430 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
Avanti West Coast appears 40 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.
| Date | Service | Late by |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2026 | London Euston to Glasgow Central 18:30 · 1S95 | 1h 53m |
| 23 Sept 2026 | London Euston to Glasgow Central 13:40 · 9S77 | 1h 52m |
| 29 Aug 2026 | Preston to London Euston 19:07 · 1T17 | 1h 46m |
| 21 Aug 2026 | Glasgow Central to London Euston 14:34 · 1M15 | 1h 43m |
| 11 Sept 2026 | Glasgow Central to London Euston 08:00 · 9M51 | 1h 41m |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Glasgow Central to London Euston 17:30 · 1M18 | 1h 40m |
| 28 Aug 2026 | London Euston to Glasgow Central 09:36 · 9S55 | 1h 38m |
| 21 Aug 2026 | London Euston to Edinburgh 08:40 · 9S54 | 1h 37m |
| 23 Sept 2026 | London Euston to Glasgow Central 11:40 · 9S65 | 1h 34m |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Glasgow Central to London Euston 18:40 · 1M19 | 1h 33m |
Recorded live from the Darwin and TRUST feeds on each of the 49 days above,
and aggregated here. VT is this operator's ATOC code. How these figures are measured · All operators · Sources and licences