Aberdeen ranked Scotland's worst rail station for cancellations in 2024

Aberdeen has been ranked as Scotland's worst railway station for cancellations so far this year, with nearly 4% of all scheduled stops axed.

According to data collected by train data website On Time Trains, the Granite City's main railway station was on par with the average percentage of cancellations at 3.8%.

It was however well above the Scottish average, with 2.9% of all scheduled stops cancelled between January and November.

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Aberdeen and Edinburgh's Waverley and Haymarket stations had the top three most cancellations, with Dundee and Partick rounding out the top five.

A report by the BBC claims the north-west of England was Britain's worst region for rail cancellations, with more than three million train stops in Scotland, England and Wales cancelled out of the nearly 83 million scheduled.

The BBC says it has carried out analysis that has calculated the percentage of scheduled stops with a cancelled arrival and/or departure by using National Rail data collected by On Time Trains.

This differs from the cancellation analysis by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), which factors in full and partial cancellations, planned timetable changes, strikes and reduced staffing.

A Department for Transport spokesperson told the BBC: "Passengers are being let down by poor services, which is why we are committed to delivering the biggest overhaul of the railways in a generation."

They said bringing services back into public ownership would put passengers at the heart and allow the government to reinvest in railways, while holding operators to account.

Scotland's top 10 worst stations for cancellations

Percentage of cancelled stops between January and November 2024:

1. Aberdeen (3.8%)

2. Edinburgh Waverley (3.5%)

3. Haymarket (3.4%)

4. Dundee (3.4%)

5. Partick (3.3%)

6. Stirling (3.2%)

7. Exhibition Centre (3.2%)

8. Glasgow Queen Street (2.5%)

9. Glasgow Central (2.3%)

10. Paisley Gilmour Street (1.4%)