UK's best and worst running train stations ranked - see how yours ranks
Commuters frustrated by train delays can find out here how their station compares to others around the country.
A list of the best and worst stations, with how busy they are taken into account, have been compiled and it shows that Chelmsford comes in at first place from the top 100 busiest stations with a 94% performance score. While at the other end of the scale is Manchester Oxford Road with 68%.
Chelmsford is the 77th busiest station in the country receiving 15,968 passengers a day, according to the analysis from On Time Trains, and its top spot is one place better than it achieved last year. The station is operated by Greater Anglia and saw 88% of trains operating on time and barely 1% cancelled.
“With an increase in the number of morning peak services compared to last year, passengers waited for an average of just eight minutes on their way to and from London Liverpool Street,” stated On Time Trains.
“These services run by Greater Anglia were neither the fastest (at 44mph) nor the cheapest (at 37p/mile), but their strong performance and frequency were enough for Chelmsford to be crowned best all-round 2023 London commuter station.”
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Service punctuality and cancellation frequency were mapped on data sourced from National Rail by On Time Trains. And behind Chelmsford, but with the same performance percentage, making up the top best three train stations among the busiest 100 came Upminster, with 14, 168 passengers a day, and then Seven Sisters which has 16,755 passengers daily.
At the other end of the scale, Manchester Oxford Road, with its 14,997 passengers was ranked worst, with Coventry, carrying 17,320 passengers a day and Bath Spa, wiith 15,458 daily travellers, in third position.
Best of top 100 busiest stations (% performance score):
1. Chelmsford 94%
2. Upminster 94%
3. Seven Sisters 94%
4. Barking 94%
5. Shenfield 93%
6. West Ham 93%
7. Tottenham Hale 93%
8. London Liverpool Street 92%
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9. Stansted Airport 92%
10. London Fenchurch Street 92%
Worst of top 100 busiest stations (% performance score):
1. Manchester Oxford Road 68%
2. Coventry 70%
3. Bath Spa 70%
4. York 72%
5. Leicester 73%
6. Peterborough 73%
7. City Thameslink 74%
8. Preston 74%
9. Manchester Piccadilly 74%
10. Birmingham New Street 75%
The state of the railways in the UK means that when booking a train it often feels like a leap of faith these days - with no way to know if your journey will arrive on time or even at all. And further dater shows that some major rail operators are late more than half of the time, according to new data on passenger rail performance, while others see high numbers of cancelled trains.
New research carried out by accident compensation experts at Claims.co.uk has revealed which train operators on the network have the highest percentage of cancelled or significantly late trains.
The analysis looked at over 20 train operators and their performance between 2018 and 2022 to find which operators had the most delayed or cancelled services. TransPennine Express was shown to be the operator most likely to experience delays throughout the year. The data shows that 7.95% of all TransPennine Express trains experienced cancellations or were significantly delayed between 2018 and 2022.
The operator, which serves routes across North England, including Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow, is also late nearly half the time, with only 57% of trains arriving on time - 18% below the average percentage of on-time trains across all operators.
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