Select Committee on Transport Seventh Report


ANNEX 1

Table: British Rail's performance, 1982-1989/90

Year
InterCity punctuality:
trains within 5 minutes of booked time
Network SouthEast punctuality
: trains within 5 minus of booked time
InterCity operating results*
Network SouthEast operating results*
Provincial operating results*
All railway operating results*
1982
  
  
-£294m
-£465m
-£734m
-£1,484m
1983
  
  
-£226m
-£353m
-£696m
-£1,239m
1985/6
85%
87.5%
  
  
  
  
1988/9
90%†
90%
+£61m
-£147m
-£498m
-£523m

Source: Mike Anson, Appendix, Tables E2 and J3, in Terry Gourvish, British Rail 1974-97 (Oxford 2002 and 2004).

† within 10 minutes of booked time
* turnover minus expenditure, before grant, in constant 1989/90 prices


Year
Passenger traffic
[bn miles]
Freight traffic
[bn tonne-miles]
Gross Invest-ment
[constant 1989/90 prices]
Subsidy PSO from central + local govt
[constant 1989/90 prices]
Subsidy as % of passenger income
%
Central govt subsidy
[constant 1989/90 prices]
1982
16.9
9.9
£584m
£1,331m
49
£1,226m
1983
18.3
10.6
£619m
£1,329m
45
£1,218m
1988/9
21.3
11.3
£778m
£648m
25
£567m
1989/90
  
  
£891m
£587m
24
£495m



Ibid. Tables A.1, B.2, D.1-2.



 
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