York Station is second worst for reliability – and these are its most cancelled trains

York’s least reliable trains have been revealed.

And it won’t come as a great surprise to regular rail passengers that the honours are shared by TransPennine Express and Northern.

An investigation into rail reliability by The Sunday Times, based on figures compiled by On Time Trains, has found that northern travellers fare the worst on Britain’s rail network.

Between 15 December to 22 February 2020, the worst service was the 7.13am service from Harrogate to Leeds, cancelled 28 times in 55 days.

And these were the most unreliable York services:

Operator	Service	Trains	Cancelled	% Cancelled
Transpennine Express	05:49 York to Manchester Airport	57	12	21%
Transpennine Express	04:27 York to Manchester Airport	50	11	22%
Northern	18:08 York to Leeds	58	10	17%
Transpennine Express	21:35 Manchester Airport to York	58	10	17%
Northern	17:42 York to Leeds	56	9	16%
Northern	17:16 Leeds to York	57	9	16%
Northern	06:33 Leeds to York	55	8	15%
Northern	15:07 York to Leeds	58	8	14%
Northern	07:56 York to Leeds	55	7	13%
Northern	19:11 York to Leeds	55	7	13%

Lowly ranking

A Northern train at York station. Photograph: YorkMix

Figures from On Time Trains shows that York is the second worst of Britain’s 100 busiest stations.

In terms of its performance in getting trains away on time, only Manchester Oxford Road rates more poorly than York.

That puts it 2,542nd in the rankings of all the UK’s 2,619 stations.

York is Britain’s 42nd busiest station, with an average of 30,205 passengers a day.

Worst of top 100 busiest stations

Rank	Station
1	Manchester Oxford Road
2	York
3	Coventry
4	Sheffield
5	Birmingham International
6	Newcastle
7	Milton Keynes Central
8	Manchester Victoria
9	Leeds
10	Manchester Airport