Snow blamed as Scotrail’s performance dips again

Scotrail punctuality has fallen for a sixth consecutive month and is now at its worst since September 2016, new figures show.

The key measure on which the operator is judged has fallen to 89.7 per cent of trains arriving within five minutes of time over the year to 3 March.

That was 0.4 percentage points worse than in the year to February, and down from 91.2 per cent last August.

Punctuality in February also fell, by 1.2 points to 86.6 per cent over the four weeks to 3 March.

But the Scotrail Alliance said it remained the bestperforming large operator in Britain and blamed the snow.

Operations director Perry Ramsey claimed: “We faced the worst snow this country has faced for generations, which has had an understandable impact on our performance.”