Aparently GNER are bottom of the TOC punctuality league table. Hard to beleive but they have even been worse than FGW who have been the subject of an investigation because of poor punctuality figures. This how the figures stack up: -
GNER FGW
Mar 4 - 31 82.7% 83.2%
Apr 1 - 28 82.4% 83.0%
Apr 29 - May 26 82.1% 82.8%
May 27 - Jun 23 81.6% 82.7%

What's GNER's excuse? They feel that becasue they only run 136 trains a day (significantly less than FGW) any incident will have a much great affect on performance figures. This summer has seen a spate of OH line failure south of Peterborough, (Can't say that I've noticed!) Cable thefts and trespassers, fatalities and floods have all been responsible for delaying trains this summer. (No change there then). Thanks to Rail Magazine for this info.

What cracks me up is that GNER's web site currently claims punctuality for the last period (whatever that may be) is 82.6% and the annual figure is 86.9%. Reliability is also running at 98.3% for the period and 98.3% for the year, just over the target of 98%. As a person due to renew next month, I hope reliability has fallen .4% over the last period (whatever that may be).

Finally I'll just mention some information I picked up while chatting to a network rail employee last week. Most p'boro commuters will have been caught out by the OHL failures sth of P'boro for the last few years. Aparently NW rail are still no nearer knowing why it keeps happening in the same area. Corrosion could be to blame,but that begs the question why this isn't happening with the smae regularity all over the place? They also believe that power surges might be to blame but surely that has to be one hell of a surge to burn through cables that are how many inches thick? Regardless, we can't expect a fix anytime soon if they don't know what the problem is. This can only mean more delays for us.