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21.04.2023 - 16:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Under-fire train operator TransPennine Express cancelled the equivalent of one in six services across most of March, new figures showed today.
The statistics follow renewed calls from Greater Manchester and the north for TPE to be stripped of its contract when it expires at the end of May.
The Manchester Evening News revealed in February that the train operator cancelled almost a quarter of all its trains in a month, including more than 1,000 the night before they were due to run.
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Now new Office of Rail and Road (ORR) data has been published, which reveals the company's cancellation score from March 5-31 was 17.0 per cent when adjusted to include pre-cancellations due to train crew shortages.
TPE passengers have suffered from widespread delays and cancellations over the past year. The FirstGroup-owned operator, which covers an area across northern England and into Scotland, has been badly affected by drivers no longer volunteering to work paid overtime shifts.
The Department for Transport is examining a recovery plan produced by TPE, whose current contract expires on May 28.
Cancellation scores show the percentage of services that are either fully or part-cancelled, with part-cancellations counted as half a full cancellation. They have traditionally not included services removed from timetables as late as 10pm on the previous night through a controversial process known as p-coding.
In an effort to boost transparency, in February the ORR began publishing adjusted figures taking into account p-coding due to a lack of resources.
For the four weeks to March 31, TPE fully pre-cancelled 388 services for this reason. This was far more than any other
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