While the government is promising improvement as train operators are brought back into public ownership, state-run Northern Rail cancelled 142 trains a day on average in the four weeks to 1 February.
In the latest quarter for which figures are available, to 30 September 2024, passenger train delay minutes attributed to Network Rail in Great Britain increased by one-fifth compared with the same spell the previous year.
On 2 March, “regulated” rail fares in England will go up by 4.6 per cent, significantly above the current rate of inflation of 3.5 per cent.
Exclusive: State-run Northern Rail has cancelled an average of 142 trains per day so far this year.
Aslef says the rail firm, which links Hull with Doncaster, Grantham and London, “unfairly sacked a train driver who raised a safety concern”.
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