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Delayed trains are bad enough. But when a departure board suddenly flashes with the dreaded ‘cancelled’, it’s another level of panic and disappointment. In 2024, 3.8 percent of the nearly 83 million scheduled stops in the UK were scrapped and half of the very worst culprits were here in London.
That’s according to On Time Trains, which looked at stats from National Rail to figure out which UK train stations had the highest rate of cancelled arrivals or departures between January and November this year.
In the capital, 3.2 percent of all scheduled stops were scrapped since January 2024 and five of our stations were among the ten worst in the country. According to the BBC, Euston, Farringdon and Paddington were three of the city’s busiest stations with the worst cancellation rates. But overall London’s worst station for cancellations and the third worst in the country was... Shepherd’s Bush. Between January and November, 6.8 percent of scheduled stops were called off there.
Dalston Kingsland was named the sixth worst in the country, followed by Hackney Central in seventh, City Thameslink in eighth and London Blackfriars in tenth.
Sure, London stations have been pretty bad collectively but at least we can take some comfort in the fact that the UK’s two absolute worst stations for cancellations were actually outside of the Big Smoke. Manchester Victoria saw 9.5 percent of all of its scheduled stops cancelled and Manchester Oxford Road cancelled 8.1 percent.
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