In a typical year, 1.72 billion passenger journeys are made on the British railway network many of the journey include the West Coast mainline with an average of 1,658 passenger per day using Penrith station to make journey on the West Coast line. But how many of those journeys run as planned and how does Penrith station compare to 2628 UK stations.
Just 18 per cent of trains stopping at Penrith station arrived on time over the last 12 weeks, placing Penrith station as one of the lowest-performing station out of 2628 stations in the UK for rail service preformance.
Penrith North Lakes station train arrival and departure performance is ranked at 2626th out of 2628 stations based on train punctuality and cancellation rate collected from public data provided by national rail and the Office of Rail and Road by website ‘On Time Trains’,
South of Penrith on the West Coast Main line Oxenholme station is ranked 2,581st with 31per cent of trains arriving on time. North of Penrith Carlisle was ranked 2,048th with 60 percent of trains arriving on time.
The ranking is not based on the station or staff at the station but the service preformance of trains arriving and departing Penrith station.
The poor performance ranking of services arriving and departing Penrith Station comes just weeks after Virgin who operated Penrith Station and services on the West Coast Mainline between 1997 and 2019, confirmed that it has submitted an application for four Open Access rail paths, as it eyes a return to the UK’s tracks that if approved, will see the company returning to the West Coast Main Line.
Josh Bayliss, CEO of the Virgin Group, said: “Whilst this application is just the first step towards bringing Virgin back to the rail network, we think Open Access is the way forward. Open Access increases consumer choice and competition both of which Virgin has always supported.”
“Virgin is exceptionally proud of everything Virgin Trains and its wonderful onboard teams achieved in the UK. In the 20 years Virgin Trains operated on the West Coast, they reduced journey times considerably, tripled services on key routes and provided an exceptional customer experience while increasing passenger numbers from 8 million to 42 million per year. The team won many awards for service and was incredibly popular with the British public. We’re confident customers would welcome Virgin Trains back, providing them with much-needed choice and competition.”
Under an Open Access license, Virgin would not receive any state subsidies and would assume the risk of running a rail service itself making its performance and punctuality critical to attracting passengers onto the services. In contrast, a franchised operator that holds a contract with the government to run the route.
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