SMS text messages from TfW – February 21

We continue to monitor the messages with view to understand what is happening on the line, So we record the messages for Crewe Shrewsbury all day and for both directions.

You can see the list of messages for February 2021 here

We have made a simple analysis of these and the table is below.

There were 108 messages in February for 56 events.

From this we can see that again more than half of the events in February (59%) are problems for NR with points failure and signal failures predominating.

We have updated the table for January after doing the data for February. Here is the data for November 20 here . We will do March 21 and October 20 in April.

Data for February 2021

NR TfW Other
track NR 5 5
level crossing NR 0 0
line-side equipment NR 5 5
obstruction on track NR 0 0
flooding the railway NR 3 3
points failure NR 9 9
speed restriction NR 1 1
signalling system NR 10 10
train TfW 8 8
train crew TfW 5 5
late / timetable TfW 2 2
passengers 2 2
trespassers on the railway 6 6
bridge strike 0 0
Total events 56 33 15 8
59% 27% 14%