Since the beginning of this year, more than two-thirds (68%) of its trains ran late or were cancelled according to analysis by the consumer organisation Which.
With the station having more than nine million passenger journeys each year, that translates to more than six million disrupted journeys a year.
The problems were even more intense at peak times,with more than three-quarters (77 per cent) of trains not departing or arriving as scheduled.
East Midlands Trains was the worst-performing train company operating at that station, with more than three-quarters (78%) of trains departing or arriving late.
This was followed by TransPennine Express (73%).
Manchester was one of the cities massively impacted by the timetable chaos earlier this year, with dire knock-on effects for passengers’ personal and professional lives.
After Manchester’s Oxford Road station, the second-worst was York station, which has more than 10 million annual passenger journeys each year. Since the beginning of the year, 65% of trains departing from or arriving at York station were late or cancelled altogether.
Mark Wylie, 51, a Manchester commuter, said: ‘TransPennine Express’s punctuality is awful, their trains at peak periods are overcrowded and suffer cancellations. ‘There are also far too many cancellations, often with the train running through but not stopping, so that it can make up time. ‘It impacts greatly on a person’s ability to get to and from work or catch an onward connection in Manchester, and results in people getting even earlier trains just in case their chosen service is cancelled.’
