Britain’s worst major stations named

City Thameslink in London was selected as the worst of the UK’s most intense railway stations for cancellations until August.

According to the railway and road (Orr) figures analyzed by BBC, one out of 13 out of the planned stop was canceled during this time.

These cancellations were among the stance of approximately three million of the planned 89 million in Britain.

The government says it is determined to increase the standards because it offers what it describes as the greatest revision of railways in a generation.

The action of increasing the reliability of services cannot come soon for passengers such as 23 -year -old Cat Edge, who contacted Surrey BBC. Your voice, your BBC News.

One of the 10 train stops was canceled by August 2025 at the local train station in Earlswood.

He said that when the trains were delayed and trying to create time to reach larger stops like Gatwick nearby, he stopped at smaller stations like him.

Although he quit an extra time, Cat said he was usually late for university.

“It makes you feel the way I missed and encountered badly,” he said. He continued: “For professors with busy programs, ‘Oh, can I get a 20 -minute pleasure window?’ Quite embarrassing.

Earlswood had the worst sixth cancellation rate of any train station in the UK last year, except for a small number of unreliable or missing data.

It is also managed by Thameslink, responsible for the City Thameslink station, which has the worst cancellation rate of the 100 most dense stations of the UK.

Cat said: “Very stressful, especially when you get on a train, and if you don’t know if you don’t stop at your station. Terrible.”

He said he would make more in advance if he doesn’t stop at a train station and wants more reliable trains late at night.

“That’s when the worst and you are the most vulnerable,” he added.

Thameslink and Network Rail’s Network Operations and Performance Director Emma Pickard said they were “deeply sad” for the problems experienced by the passengers.

Thameslink said it works hard to make services more reliable, combat problems such as signal and power supply errors, improve the usability of the train screen and make the network more resistant to severe air and other unexpected events.

“When events other than our control such as bad weather or unauthorized entry occur, we aim to restore the service as quickly as possible, but it can be widely felt in a intense and complex network as Thameslink’s deterioration.” He said.

“From time to time we have to make a very difficult decision to cancel some trains to get the time schedule back.”

Trains canceled late at night may be particularly difficult for passengers in rural areas.

Sheila O’donnell, 73 -year -old, lives in ArnSide in Kumbria. He said that his train was often canceled on his way home or seeing friends in nearby cities.

Our data show that one of the 17 stops from the station was canceled last year.

“It happens very often, I resigned,” he said. “The worst I’ve had was on the trend to celebrate someone’s big birthday, and I returned to the Lancaster at 21: 10 to find out that the next train was canceled.”

A friend of mine left him to the bus station, but the nearest stop was still 4.5 miles (7.24 km) from his home.

“I don’t get a taxi,” he said. “From 22:30 to midnight, I had to walk home along the Dark Country Lane. There was hardly no light and I needed a torch on my phone.”

BBC analysis calculated the percentage of the canceled stops of the planned stops for the last 13 terms. Railway and Road Office.

78 out of 2,549 stations were removed from the analysis due to missing or unreliable data. This is different from the cancellation analysis of the railway distribution group representing network railway and train operators.

Michael Solomon Williams of Better Transport for Campain said that about three million train cancellation was “not only acceptable” and faith in railways.

“We need a reliable, affordable and accessible rail network to provide economic growth, increase efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.” He said.

In cooperation with the railway industry and the government, the authorized called “more harsh targets, appropriate investments to regain automatic compensation and confidence”.

58 -year -old Peter Howard is going to London from Macclesfield. After a few cancellations during his pandemi, he decided to completely avoid trains.

“I’m just tired,” he said. “I thought I didn’t take this risk anymore, and I driving.”

Peter, over the years of train cancellations work meetings, his son’s sports day and school piches, he said.

He said: “They were the most damaging. This would be a sense of disappointment – ‘My father should not be here,’.

Since then, Peter has returned to use trains and thought that the situation has recently healed, but added: “There was a period,” I think a Russian roulette that last year in the summer months, whether the train came. “

The data shows that one of the 24 stations planned last year was canceled in Macclesfield.

Ministry of Transport (DFT) spokesman, operators under him “meticulous, ordering standards” should meet, he said. Plans to re -evaluate railway services in the UK.

The Large British railways, a body of a new arm, will control the railway system in England, Wales and Scotland with a movement that the government will save and reduce delays and cancellations.

The legislation required to establish the new organ will still pass through Parliament, but when the franchise time held by private companies began to expire, some services have been transferred to the public. All services are expected to belong to the public until the end of 2027.

DFT, already “general cancellations began to fall positive progress signs” began to see, he said.

On his face, the number of canceled train stops fell in the last four -week period, the period right before last year or compared to the same period.

However, the cancellation rate for last year was still slightly slightly higher than the previous one -3.2%increased by 3.3%.

A Railway Distribution Group Spokeeperson said that train operators “there is no effort to protect as much service as much as possible”, but excessive air, infrastructure error and unauthorized entry may have an effect.

He apologized to the affected, visual deterioration maps – videos that will help passengers to navigate in service changes – and said that the delay repayment scheme to simplify compensation increases the awareness.

Additional reports by Kris Bramwell, Lauren Woodhead and Jonathan Fagg