It comes after German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, final week dismissed options that the nation’s community ought to be privatised and mockingly mentioned it could “finish as badly as in England, the place nothing works any extra”.
The analysis states that roughly 72 per cent of Deutsche Bahn’s intercity trains arrived inside a 10-minute window of their scheduled arrival time in 12 months to January, in contrast with 78 per cent of British long-distance trains.
Punctuality additionally reportedly impacts long-distance prepare journey throughout central Europe.
The evaluation tracks some 1.9 billion arrivals at stations, as proven by web sites Bahn-Vorhersage and Zugfinder, from February 2024 till the tip of January 2025.
It additionally revealed that roughly 20 per cent of intercity trains in Germany have been delayed by greater than quarter-hour within the 12-month interval – virtually twice the quantity that Avanti West Coast experiences and 10 instances as a lot as all of the companies within the UK.
The UK’s most punctual trains
Workplace of Rail and Highway figures from April to June 2024 confirmed how punctual trains have been final yr.
Within the timeframe lined, 70.1 per cent of recorded station stops in Nice Britain (14.4 million out of 20.5 million) had arrived at on time.
High 5 trains by On Time percentages:
Better Anglia: 87.2 per cent
Chiltern Railways: 82 per cent
Heathrow Categorical: 75.9 per cent
Backside 5 trains by On Time percentages:
Avanti West Coast: 41.2 per cent
Grand Central: 48.4 per cent
CrossCountry: 51.3 per cent
TransPennine Categorical: 53 per cent
Hull Trains: 56.3 per cent
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