Greater Anglia has announced that performance figures have shown that the operator has delivered very good punctuality results in March.
The train operator achieved a result of 91.84% across its network during March, with even better performance during the period after the revised timetable began on 23 March.
The best results for March were on the Manningtree to Harwich line at 98.8%, the Norwich to Sheringham line at 96.7%, the Marks Tey to Sudbury line at 95.7%, the Ipswich to Felixstowe line at 95.1%, London to Chelmsford/Colchester/Clacton services at 93.8%, the Norwich to Cambridge line at 93.7%, the Ipswich to Cambridge/Peterborough lines at 93.3%, the Norwich to Great Yarmouth line at 93.1%, the Norwich to Lowestoft line at 92.1% and the Norwich – Intercity services at 91.9% punctuality.
West Anglia performance was 90.2% which was slightly lower due to an incident where a fallen tree damaged overhead lines.
In the first nine days of the revised timetable punctuality was consistently between 93% and 99%. This reflects the commitment of Greater Anglia staff to deliver a service for those who need to travel.
The operator is reiterating that only essential journeys should be made, with everyone else staying at home in line with government advice.
Greater Anglia is monitoring passenger numbers on a daily basis to make sure that the revised timetable remains fit for purpose.
The current revised timetable is in place until further notice.
What did the officials say?
Jamie Burles, Managing Director, Greater Anglia, said:
“I’d like to thank everyone at Greater Anglia for delivering a very good service during these challenging times. We are committed to providing the best possible service for key workers and anyone else who still needs to travel.”
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Daniel, in effect yes. Running the network at almost full capacity all the time leaves very little flexibility when things go wrong. Running an un-stressed system will always be much more reliable.
Very soon once the Class 720s have started service on the West Anglia & Great Eastern services (including on the branch lines). The WiFi should be as good on those new Class 720 trains.
Perhaps Greater Anglia should sort out the WiFi at railway stations along their network because WiFi at stations like at Rayleigh is rubbish and doesn’t work well. Compare to c2c that has very good WiFi on their trains and at railway stations on their network.
Also Greater Anglia should keep/retain the Class 379s because they are ideal to operate on the branch lines such as:
Wickford-Southminster
Colchester-Walton-on-the-Naze & Colchester Town
Manningtree-Harwich Town
Stratford-Hertford East, Meridian Water, Bishops Stortford and Harlow Town
London Liverpool Street-Braintree, Southend Victoria, Southminster, Clacton-on-Sea, Walton-on-the-Naze, Colchester Town, Harwich Town, Ipswich, Hertford East, Bishops Stortford, Cambridge, Cambridge North, Ely and Kings Lynn.
So, all they needed to do to solve their inability to perform was to run a reduced Sunday service for no passengers?