Train reliability sinks to new low with 4% of services cancelled in past year

Services have been disrupted by a series of issues such as staff shortages and sickness, industrial action and severe weather.

Train reliability across Britain has reached a new low with the equivalent of one in 25 services cancelled over the past 12 months (Danny Lawson/PA) (PA Archive)

Train reliability across Britain has fallen a new low with the equivalent of one in 25 services cancelled during the past 12 months.

PA news agency analysis of Office of Rail and Road (ORR) data published on Friday showed the cancellations score for the year to February 4 was 4.0%.

This is up from 3.0% 12 months earlier and represents the highest figure in records dating back to 2014.