TransPennine Express cancellations almost three times higher than reported

Office of Rail and Road figures expose how train companies use legal loophole to under-report cancellations

One of the north of England’s main railway companies has a cancellation rate almost three times higher than officially recorded, new figures show.

A government body that collates information about train reliability released the stats on Friday after it wrote to train companies over concerns that they were taking advantage of a legal loophole to vastly under-report cancellations.