RAILWAYS: SOUTH EAST
Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many train services on the (a) Brighton and (b) East Grinstead line have been cancelled due to train reliability issues in each of the last six months.
Claire Perry, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport: The operator is not required to supply this information to the Department. We have such figures at the franchise level, but not to the level of disaggregation required. Therefore we can provide the following:
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Cancellation due to:- |
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15/16 |
GTR - Driver |
GTR - Rolling stock |
GTR - Other |
Network Rail responsible |
Other TOC responsible |
Trains Planned |
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Period 1 ending 2 May* |
941 |
468 |
337 |
2385 |
305 |
91581 |
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Period 2 ending 30 May |
725 |
462 |
333 |
1615 |
122 |
90926 |
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Period 3 ending 27 Jun |
1118 |
582 |
254 |
1574 |
93 |
91445 |
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Period 4 ending 25 Jul |
1291 |
775 |
375 |
1826 |
79 |
91867 |
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Period 5 ending 22 Aug |
1551 |
787 |
402 |
1582 |
76 |
92103 |
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Period 6 ending 19 Sep |
1741 |
535 |
489 |
1098 |
75 |
91303 |
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Period 7 ending 17 Oct |
1139 |
944 |
394 |
1537 |
74 |
91338 |
* The figure for period 1 was ‘normalised’ to a 28-day period as it was actually four days longer than usual to take into account the start of the financial year
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