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Delay compensation claims

Quarterly statistics containing data on the volume of delay compensation claims made by passengers on rail services within Great Britain and how effectively train operating companies processed these.

For details on how these statistics are compiled, please see our Passenger rail service complaints and delay compensation claims quality and methodology report and for information on any revisions, please see our Revisions log.

Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR).

If you have any questions or feedback on these statistics, please contact rail.stats@orr.gov.uk

 

Latest factsheet

Delays compensation claims fact sheet rail periods 8 to 10
Delays compensation claims fact sheet rail periods 8 to 10

Date published: 04 Apr 2024
Date next published: 27 Jun 2024

Key results

  • In rail periods 8 to 10 there were 2.3 million delay compensation claims closed by train operators, an increase of 39% on the same rail periods in the previous year.
  • .Overall, 99.5% of delay compensation claims were closed within 20 working days during rail periods 8 to 10 (15 October 2023 to 6 January 2024). This is up from 97.8% in the same rail periods in the previous year.
  • Overall, 82.5% of delay compensation claims closed were approved during rail periods 8 to 10 (15 October 2023 to 6 January 2024). This is up from 78.0% in the same rail periods in the previous year.

Historical factsheets

Data tables