[cosmodisk]

Well...The local operators,here in London,solved the stats issue this way: if a train is late, it skips many stations and still arrive to the end station on time. Guess what,all the stats are produced on first- last ststion basis...

[ben_w]

Same idea but slightly different trick was being used when I was at university. Aberystwyth-Birmingham New Street was regularly terminated at Wolverhampton, so that it has gone far enough to count as “not cancelled” and because it didn’t get to BNS late it also “wasn’t late”.

[johnchristopher]

Eh. Same thing in Belgium. Only time of arrival in the last station is taken into account to classify a journey as being late or on time.

[burntoutfire]

What happens to people who want to onboard on the skipped stations?

[nmnim]

I'm not in London but up north, and it's the same here. In my experience you have to wait until the next connecting train, or buy a new ticket and catch a suburban train from a different company that takes 3x as long. This one is sometimes late and will skip your station. I've missed work (seminar teaching, short and time-sensitive, so not just a case of arriving late and staying late) because of cancellations and trains going through my station rather so they can be on time to Leeds or wherever.