Press Association analysis of Office of Rail and Road (ORR) figures reveal that 85.4% of trains met the public performance measure (PPM), the industry’s standard measure of punctuality. The annual rolling average for the proportion of trains reaching their final destination within five minutes of their scheduled arrival time, or within ten minutes for long-distance services, is the worst since September 2005. Extreme weather, strikes, signal failures and chaos resulting from the introduction of a new timetable were cited as factors contributing to the deteriorating punctuality performance.