TransPennine Trains: Standards
(asked on 2nd June 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of TransPennine Express services were cancelled in each month from May 2022 to May 2024.
Information on train cancellations is published by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) and can be found on their data portal. This data is not available by calendar month, but is published periodically, by rail periods which are 28 days in duration apart from period 1 (starts on 1 April) and period 13 (ends on 31 March). Each financial year (April to March) consists of 13 railway periods.
Table 1 shows the number of trains that were either partially or fully cancelled, and the proportion of planned services that were partially or fully cancelled by TransPennine Express, for each period from 1st April 2022 to 25th May 2024.
Table 1. The proportion of planned services for TransPennine Express that were partially or fully cancelled, each period from 1 April 2022 to 25 May 2024
Rail period | Proportion of planned trains cancelled (%) | Moving annual average of cancellations (%) |
1 April 2022 - 30 April 2022 | 4.6 | 3.4 |
1 May 2022 - 28 May 2022 | 4.5 | 3.0 |
29 May 2022 - 25 June 2022 | 5.6 | 3.6 |
26 June 2022 - 23 July 2022 | 8.2 | 5.3 |
24 July 2022 - 20 August 2022 | 6.2 | 5.3 |
21 August 2022 - 17 September 2022 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
18 September 2022 - 15 October 2022 | 6.4 | 3.5 |
16 October 2022 - 12 November 2022 | 7.9 | 4.4 |
13 November 2022 - 10 December 2022 | 6.3 | 4.1 |
11 December 2022 - 7 January 2023 | 11.8 | 7.9 |
8 January 2023 - 4 February 2023 | 8.9 | 3.1 |
5 February 2023 - 4 March 2023 | 7.2 | 2.9 |
5 March 2023 - 31 March 2023 | 5.7 | 3.3 |
1 April 2023 - 29 April 2023 | 4.5 | 3.0 |
30 April 2023 - 27 May 2023 | 6.0 | 3.0 |
28 May 2023 - 24 June 2023 | 6.0 | 4.1 |
25 June 2023 - 22 July 2023 | 5.1 | 3.6 |
23 July 2023 - 19 August 2023 | 6.4 | 4.4 |
20 August 2023 - 16 September 2023 | 3.4 | 3.6 |
17 September 2023 - 14 October 2023 | 5.0 | 3.7 |
15 October 2023 - 11 November 2023 | 6.6 | 5.1 |
12 November 2023 - 9 December 2023 | 6.4 | 5.1 |
10 December 2023 - 6 January 2024 | 5.2 | 5.9 |
7 January 2024 - 3 February 2024 | 4.3 | 3.4 |
4 February 2024 - 2 March 2024 | 2.2 | 3.2 |
3 March 2024 - 31 March 2024 | 2.3 | 3.0 |
1 April 2024 - 27 April 2024 | 2.3 | 3.2 |
28 April 2024 - 25 May 2024 | 3.6 | 3.5 |
Source: DfT analysis of ORR Table 3124