Avanti West Coast had the second highest cancellations score at 7.00 per cent, followed by Northern (5.97 per cent) and Govia Thameslink Railway (5.45 per cent).
“The rail industry is working hard to maintain as many services as possible, but delays and cancellations can occur due to various factors like weather and flooding, industrial action, infrastructure issues such as track or signalling faults, train faults and external incidents such as trespass.”.
The rail industry's cancellation score, which counts full cancellations as one and part-cancellations as half, indicates that 4.09 per cent of 7.3 million planned trains were cancelled during this period.
Rail expert Tony Miles from Modern Railways magazine has pointed to a combination of industrial disputes and staff shortages as the reason behind a high number of rail cancellations.
Mr Miles said that operators like Northern are experiencing particularly poor reliability on Sundays due to their reliance on train crews working paid overtime, which some staff members are declining.
