The headline punctuality figures are a cause for concern and show how much more there is still to be done to cope with severe winter weather.
But, aside from the concerns over information-sharing with passengers, is 81% so terrible a figure, considering those satellite photos showing a white country with no green in sight, the motorists stranded in cars overnight, the cancelled overseas holidays?
The industry must do everything it can to build winter resilience into the system – everything, that is, except demand money be spent on it – but the number of trains actually reaching their destinations on time despite the disruption is cause for some small celebration among the head-shaking and finger-pointing.
