CrossCountry
CrossCountry appears on 49 archived days from 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026, running 341 services a day. 61% of its recorded arrivals were within five minutes, which is below the network as a whole.
9,518 arrivals were recorded across the window, 5,801 of them within five minutes and 490 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: 500 services on Saturday, 19 September 2026 against 212 on Sunday, 16 August 2026, a swing of 2.4 times.
The average delay at destination was 7.6 minutes. The worst single arrival recorded was 3h 43m behind schedule, Edinburgh to Plymouth on Saturday, 15 August 2026.
The day-to-day spread is wide — 38 points between its best day, Sunday, 30 August 2026 at 87%, and its worst, Saturday, 15 August 2026 at 49%.
819 services were cancelled, 4.9% of everything booked — above the 2.4% the network cancelled over the same dates. The worst single day was Sunday, 6 September 2026, at 23% of that day's timetable.
Counting those cancellations as failures, the way the industry's own measure does, takes the on-time share from 61% of recorded arrivals to 56% of everything booked whose outcome is known — 4.8 points.
Ranked on on-time share of recorded arrivals against the 30 operators with enough of them to compare, CrossCountry comes 28th.
CrossCountry in numbers
| Archived days covered | 49 | 6 Aug 2026 to 23 Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Passenger trains recorded | 16,703 | |
| Share of the national timetable | 1.4% | of 1,203,226 over the same dates |
| Cancelled | 819 | 4.9% · network 2.4% |
| Arrival time recorded | 9,518 | 59.9% of those that ran |
| …arrived within 5 minutes | 5,801 | 60.9% |
| …arrived 5 to 30 minutes late | 3,227 | 33.9% |
| …arrived more than 30 minutes late | 490 | 5.1% |
| Average delay at destination | 7.6 min | |
| On time, counting cancellations | 56.1% | of the 10,337 booked services whose outcome is known · network 84% |
| Network, same dates | 87% | on time, against this operator's 61% |
Every percentage among the bands is of the 9,518 services whose arrival reached the archive, not of all 16,703, and the bands are exclusive. 6,366 ran without an arrival being recorded, and nothing is claimed about those. The row counting cancellations is those same 5,801 on-time arrivals over a denominator that also holds the 819 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
CrossCountry appears 32 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Aug 2026 | Edinburgh to Plymouth 13:05 · 1V64 | 3h 43m |
| 21 Sept 2026 | Nottingham to Cardiff Central 11:07 · 1V08 | 2h 56m |
| 15 Aug 2026 | Penzance to Bristol Temple Meads 18:15 · 1B92 | 2h 41m |
| 18 Sept 2026 | Edinburgh to Plymouth 14:04 · 1V66 | 2h 31m |
| 20 Sept 2026 | Bournemouth to Manchester Piccadilly 13:40 · 1M54 | 2h 27m |
| 8 Sept 2026 | Edinburgh to Plymouth 10:05 · 1V58 | 2h 23m |
| 8 Sept 2026 | Glasgow Central to Plymouth 07:48 · 1V56 | 2h 18m |
| 11 Sept 2026 | Stansted Airport to Birmingham New Street 12:25 · 1N55 | 2h 05m |
| 18 Sept 2026 | Edinburgh to Plymouth 15:04 · 1V68 | 2h 02m |
| 11 Sept 2026 | Birmingham New Street to Stansted Airport 09:22 · 1L34 | 2h 02m |
Recorded live from the Darwin and TRUST feeds on each of the 49 days above,
and aggregated here. XC is this operator's ATOC code. How these figures are measured · All operators · Sources and licences