wrote:
I noticed an ad in the Overground today - 93.55% of services arrived within
5 minutes of their booked time last month or whenever.

Are we supposed to be impressed? Its an abysmal statistic. In Japan the line
manager would have been sacked immediately if he hadn't already committed
hari kiri.

Maybe on a Shinkansen. In my experience, the narrow gauge classic Japanese
railways are very slow and less punctual.