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The BBC has used a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain statistics about the number of trains that miss scheduled stops. The link is below. I know I'm supposed to post the article itself, but it includes several photos and a video, and I don't know if I should include them as well.
I think the most interesting bit is the bar chart showing that Heathrow Express didn't miss out any stops. I suspect the BBC journalists don't realise how unlikely it is that they would.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43701210
I think the most interesting bit is the bar chart showing that Heathrow Express didn't miss out any stops. I suspect the BBC journalists don't realise how unlikely it is that they would.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43701210
Trains in Britain missed scheduled stops at stations on average 160 times a day, the BBC has learned.
More than 52,500 services out of a planned six million had one or more "failure to stop" (FTS) events in the financial year up to 23 February.
Govia Thameslink (GTR) - which runs Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern - accounted for 16,000 of those.
A spokesman said skipping stops was a "last resort when a train running late would otherwise prolong disruption".
From April 2017 to February 2018, 17 in every 1,000 planned GTR trains missed one or more stops - about 50 per day. This is more than double the national average for train operators...
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