That’s right folks. In the period running from 27 June to 24 July FCC only managed to run 89.5% (or 88.1% – see screw up 1 below) of train less than five minutes late at their destination on the Thameslink route. This is just marginally better (or worse) than the 88.2% in the May-June period.
Screw up 1: On the performance home page they state the Thameslink performance is 89.5% however on the report (PDF) it says it is 88.1% and that the FCC combined (Thameslink + Great Northern) is 89.5%.
Screw up 2: First Capital Connect have published their latest report but in true FCC style their performance home page is out of date and still has comments and excuses relating to the last report!
Whatever the correct figure is, it is still below their pretty low target on 90.32%. In fact, in the last eight periods they have only met their target 3 times.
These screw ups do not give me much faith in their stats, especially as they do not really give us the whole picture anyway. it. Post a comment below if you notice it has been changed!
They have blamed numerous events for their terrible service, but their excuse of the month is;
Lineside fire at Earlswood
Rumour has it this fire was started by FCC passengers in the middle of the night to keep warm after their train never appeared even though the board still stated ‘on time’.
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Maybe harsh to blame them, but a couple of weeks back at Farringdon everything was stopped because of “Two cats on the tracks”. Some idiot on the platform let them out of a carrier and they legged it, but we all had to double check when they read that out
i still find it hard to believe that they reach the giddy heights of nearly 90% even using their very forgiving parameters. My own performance stats for the week have them at 33% at the moment – last night they somehow managed to conjure a 15 minute delay to all southbound services between me leaving the office and arriving at city thameslink (based on a review of the live departure board). And despite the usual continual and ear splittingly loud apologies for the delays to individual services, i didn’t hear a reason for any of them.
A small site counting the number of late trains every day, and a weekly tally:
http://www.thameslinkstats.info/
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