Railways: Standards

(asked on 17th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the data provided by train operating companies to his Department on the level and cause of cancellations and delays is the same data that has been verified by the Train Running Under System used by Network Rail, the Train Operating Companies and the Office of Rail and Road.


Answered by
Paul Maynard Portrait
Paul Maynard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 22nd November 2016

The primary source for all industry information about train performance is Train Running Under System TOPS (TRUST) operated by Network Rail. This includes data which is subsequently supplied to the Department by train operators. However, train operators use the TRUST data in their own systems, and have access to additional information which may mean there are minor differences between the raw data from TRUST and the data provided to the Department by operators.

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