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Rail Performance Hit a record High

National train performance has risen to 91.4%, the highest level of punctuality ever recorded for period 11. This covers performance from January 8 to February 4 and compares to 90.3% for the same period last year. Period 10 saw performance at 88.7%.

The national moving annual average (MAA) is now at 91.6%.

The franchise with the highest punctuality was c2c Rail, with 97.4%, which also has the highest MAA at 96.9%. The franchise that had the lowest performance figures was Virgin with 85.7%. The lowest MAA was 86.0% for East Coast.

For Virgin Trains, period 11 performance was 3.1% worse than target, with a PPM of 85.7%. Performance throughout the period was generally very good, with 19 days above 90% and eight of these above 95%.

There were four poor days of less than 80%, with the main incidents including fatalities at Nuneaton and Cheddington and signalling problems at Birmingham International.

The most severe incident, impacting the last two days of the period, was a derailment at Bletchley (PPM was just 9.4% on February 3). The incident is currently under full investigation.

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