{"id":1063,"date":"2008-02-29T16:33:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T16:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/29\/how-are-southern-doing\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T16:33:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T16:33:05","slug":"how-are-southern-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/29\/how-are-southern-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"How are Southern doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I may not be the train regulator, but… One of my eight wishes for 2008<\/a> was:<\/p>\n

That the majority of my commuter trains into London are on time (December’s score: 0%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two months into 2008, how is Southern – my local train operating company – faring? I’ve crunched the numbers and the answer is that they’re getting better, but are short of my target.<\/p>\n

Based on the wording of my wish, these stats are limited to journeys I’ve made into London for work, and only count the train I actually took: if I got to the station and a train due earlier than the one I was aiming for arrived late and I caught it, that counted as a late train; but if it was so busy that (rather than squeezing in) I waited for the next train and it was on time, that counted as an on time train.<\/p>\n

On the one occasion that the train I went for was cancelled, I’ve made an exception and counted that as a particularly long delay (17 minutes; the longest delay otherwise was 9 minutes). <\/p>\n

Here are the stats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\nJanuary<\/th>\nFebruary<\/th>\nYear to date<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Proportion on time<\/td>\n37.5%<\/td>\n53.3%<\/td>\n45.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Average delay (mins)<\/td>\n2.6<\/td>\n1.8<\/td>\n2.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

So my morning train did manage to be on time the majority of the time this month, but, averaged out against January (when I caught more trains), the proportion for 2008 so far is 45%.<\/p>\n

Not great, but only a little way to go to get over the key 50%. And what a triumph that would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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