GovWire

Transparency data: Train operating companies: Passenger’s Charter compensation

Department For Transport

October 24
08:30 2024

class="gem-c-govspeak govuk-govspeak gem-c-govspeak--direction-ltr govuk-!-margin-bottom-0">

Compensation paid by train operators since 2016 in accordance with their Passengers Charter and including:

  • delay repay compensation
  • compensation paid under the traditional charter scheme
  • discretionary compensation

For more information, including compensation paid under the traditional charter scheme, seeprevious figures for rail passenger compensation payments.

These rail passenger compensation figures are influenced by numerous factors including propensity of passengers to claim compensation when they are delayed, the claim rate. Research into claim rate was completed in 2023, 2020 and 2018.

Updates to this page

Published 17 November 2016
Last updated 24 October 2024 +show all updates
  1. Passengers Charter compensation for 2023 to 2024 added.

  2. 2022 to 2023 figures added.

  3. Added rail compensation figures for 2021-22

  4. Payments between 2020 and 2021 released.

  5. Error correction: figure for 2018 to 2019 figure for Virgin Trains East Coast changed from 3,986 to 3,896 thousand.

  6. Added data for 2019 to 2020.

  7. Error correction: for 2018 to 2019, Virgin Trains East Coast figure revised from 3,896 to 3,986 and total revised from 78,895 to 78,985.

  8. Rail passenger compensation figures between 2018 and 2019 released

  9. Data for year 2017 to 2018 added.

  10. Data for year 2016 to 2017 added.

  11. First published.

Sign up for emails or print this page

Related Articles

Comments

  1. We don't have any comments for this article yet. Why not join in and start a discussion.

Write a Comment

Your name:
Your email:
Comments:

Post my comment

Recent Comments

Follow Us on Twitter

Share This


Enjoyed this? Why not share it with others if you've found it useful by using one of the tools below: