Managing the seasons pays off

摘要

According to Network Rail's National Weather Strategy Specialist Paul Arnold, '2009 was our most successful year in terms of safety and performance', and also in terms of delay-minutes due to bad weather.rnWrong-side track circuit failures caused by contamination of rails or wheel treads numbered 138 last year compared to 206 in 2008-09. The Moving Annual Average PPM score stood at 91-5% at the end of Period 5 on August 21 2010 (RB1374 p4), which is as high as it has ever been despite some exceptional weather as outlined in our table (right).