Flooding and faults hit rail service rates
Scotrail had to cancel 11,000 trains last year
FlooDing and mechanical faults led to hundreds of ScotRail trains being cancelled or delayed since April, a report has revealed.
A meeting of the operations Committee at Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) in glasgow was shown the latest figures on train disruption.
The report, by SPT assistant chief executive of operations, Eric Stewart, reveals that 0.8% of ScotRail services since April have been cancelled – lower than SPT’s target of 1%.
on July 4, flooding at Dalmarnock resulted in 34 trains being cancelled, 47 trains being partially cancelled and 376 services delayed by a total of 1730 minutes.
And on July 11, flooding at glasgow’s Queen Street Station saw 32 trains cancelled, two partially cancelled and 312 services delayed by a total of 1239 minutes.
other major incidents reported in the period from April include a points failure at Cathcart on May 4, which resulted in 14 train cancellations, four partial cancellations and 52 delayed services totalling 311 minutes.
The number of trains cancelled on the ScotRail network last year was almost 11,000.
The report is released just weeks after figures from the office of the Rail Regulator showed that 9.3% of First ScotRail trains were more than five minutes late last year.
More than 30,000 trains arrived at least 10 minutes later than scheduled and 20,000 were more than 20 minutes late.
Today’s report also shows that 1.1% of Subway trains have been cancelled since April, above the firm’s target of 1%, but that punctuality was above target at 99%.
Ferry services between gourock and Kilcreggan are being used
0.8% of ScotRail services since April have been cancelled
by fewer passengers than last year, according to the report.
The figures have not been helped by the removal from the service of a stop at Helensburgh, which accounted for 4200 passengers per year.
SPT’s MyBus service – which caters for people with mobility difficulties and those who live in rural areas – has seen a 20% jump in passenger numbers since April.