National Rail Trends 2006–07 yearbook (April 2006 to March 2007)
5 July 2007
ORR/18/07
The National Rail Trends yearbook, covering the period April 2006 to March 2007, was published today by ORR.
Comparing 2006-07 with 2005-06:
- 88.1% of trains ran on time representing a 1.7 percentage point increase in the Public Performance Measure (PPM) for all operators between 2005-06 and 2006-07. This is the highest annual percentage of trains on time since 1999-00.
- Total freight moved in 2006-07 was 22.58 billion net tonne kilometres, a 4.0% increase since 2005-06.
- Over 108 million tonnes of freight were lifted in 2006-07, an increase of 0.7% between 2005-06 and 2006-07.
- The percentage of passengers satisfied with their journey overall was down by 2%, compared to Spring 2006, to 79%. This was the lowest overall percentage of passengers satisfied nationally since Spring 2005.
- Between January 2006 and January 2007 the overall average increase in rail fares was 6.8%, compared with 5.8% the previous year.
Notes to editors:
- In July 2005 ORR took over the rail statistics function, formerly provided by the Strategic Rail Authority. Today's publication is the fourth such annual compendium or yearbook.
- This edition of National Rail Trends covers the annual period April 2006 to March 2007, as well as the quarterly period, January to March (Quarter 4) of the financial year 2006-07 and is available from the ORR website at http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/pdf/330.pdf . It provides trend data on a range of industry-wide indicators including key figures on rail usage and freight.
- Earlier editions of National Rail Trends and its predecessor On Track were the responsibility of the Strategic Rail Authority; these are now available on the ORR website http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/nrt.
- The Public Performance Measure (PPM) combines figures for punctuality and reliability into a single performance measure. PPM replaced the Passenger’s Charter as the main means of measuring passenger train performance. PPM is the percentage of trains that run ‘on time’ compared to the total number of trains planned, where ‘on time’ means within five minutes of the scheduled arrival time for London and South East and Regional operators, and ten minutes for Long distance operators.
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