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Passenger rail service complaints

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Twice-yearly statistics on the volume and cause of complaints made to train operating companies.​ This data forms part of ORR's core consumer data requirements from train operating companies; more information can be found at ORR core data.

Data is shown by financial year quarter: Q1 is April to June; Q2 is July to September; Q3 is October to December; and Q4 is January to March. From 1 April 2024, quarterly data will be published twice a year (January and June).

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.

Data and reports that include previous statistical releases on Passenger rail service complaints can be found on the National Archives.

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 statistical release

Passenger rail service complaints, January to March 2024
Passenger rail service complaints, January to March 2024

Date published: 27 Jun 2024
Date next published: 09 Jan 2025

Key results

  • There were 84,344 complaints closed by train operators in the latest quarter (1 January 2024 to 31 March 2024), an increase of 0.4% on the same quarter in the previous year’s total (83,984).
  • There were 348,929 complaints closed by train operators in the latest year (1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024), which is a rate of 22 complaints per 100,000 journeys. The number of complaints closed was up 23% on the previous year’s total (346,758).
  • In the latest year, 93.8% of complaints were closed within 20 working days. 20 out of 24 train operators met industry requirements to make a full response to 95% of complaints within 20 working days.
  • Overall, 81.1% of complaints were made by email or webform in the latest year.

Previous statistical releases

Data tables