New data reveals 15,800 trains cancelled in the region last year

New data has revealed that Northern Rail cancelled 15,800 trains over the last 12 months and partly cancelled 18,696 more.

This is in addition to an increase in the number of trains running with fewer carriages, with 28,198 trains implementing carriage reductions in the same period.

The Northern Fail App which was created by frustrated commuter Nick Mitchell, a software engineer at data and API integration specialist SPINR has been monitoring services.

Nick launched the Northern Fail App in May 2018, when he became fed up of constant delays and cancellations on his daily commute into Manchester.

SPINR has now made 12 months of data available on a dedicated web page.

Manchester Piccadilly is the number one station for cancelled trains followed by Preston and Manchester Airport.

Manchester Piccadilly was top of the leaderboard for cancelled trains with a total of 5,001 in the last year, and also appeared as one of the stations worst hit by services running with carriage reductions, totalling 7,202.

The data shows a falling trend for full service cancellations over the period, however, this is being offset by the growing trend for trains running with carriage reductions.

The data used in the Northern Fail App for fully cancelled services is gathered from ‘announced’ cancellations, these are trains cancelled in advance of a service departing it’s maiden station.

However, the data does not account for delayed trains that are subsequently cancelled. The figures for partly cancelled services do include in-journey cancellations, but this data does not take into account reinstated services, scheduling and timetable changes.

There were 47 strike days in the last 12 months and no data was collected during these days as no cancellations were announced.