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Punctuality slumps to lowest in a decade

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STATISTICS released by the Office of Rail & Road (ORR) show that punctuality of rail freight services between July and September last year reached its lowest level since the current series of records began in 2013.

The ORR says strike action had an impact on all the metrics used in its summary of data.

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