Weekly rail performance indicators, Transport Canada

Weekly rail performance indicators, Transport Canada, week starting April 1, 2023
  Canadian National Canadian Pacific Burlington Northern  Santa Fe CSXT Data table
System performance
  kilometres per hour
Average train speed 39.0 37.5 26.8 .. Table 23-10-0276-01
  hours
Weekly average dwell times 13.7 23.8 14.5 .. Table 23-10-0276-01
  number
Daily average number of train holdings caused by crew 1.4 .. 0.0 .. Table 23-10-0276-01
Daily average number of train holdings caused by locomotives 0.4 1.7 0.0 .. Table 23-10-0276-01
Daily average number of train holdings, other causes 5.9 5.2 0.0 .. Table 23-10-0276-01
Daily average number of train holdings, all 7.7 6.9 0.0 .. Table 23-10-0276-01
Daily average loaded cars not moving 339.9 2,446.6 14.9 0.0 Table 23-10-0276-01
Daily average empty cars not moving 292.9 1,356.6 15.1 0.1 Table 23-10-0276-01
Cars on line
  number
Weekly average cars on line 71,971 54,341 792 1,019 Table 23-10-0277-01
Terminal performance
  hours
Terminal dwell-time 14.4 16.7 18.2 .. Table 23-10-0274-01
Grain performance
  number
Cars loaded and billed, all systems 6,432 5,710 415 .. Table 23-10-0275-01
Cars loaded and billed, train service .. 3,156 116 .. Table 23-10-0275-01
Cars loaded and billed, other 6,432 2,554 299 .. Table 23-10-0275-01
Orders placed 4,524 189 0 .. Table 23-10-0275-01
Orders filled 4,071 361 0 .. Table 23-10-0275-01
Orders 1 to 10 days past due 763 20 0 .. Table 23-10-0275-01
Orders 11 or more days past due .. 1 0 .. Table 23-10-0275-01
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not available for a specific reference period

Notes:
New freight rail service and performance information which is being submitted by rail carriers on a weekly basis is now available at "Weekly Rail Performance Indicators". This new and improved dataset replaces indicators that have been published since December 2018. This significantly expanded set of indicators will improve supply chain transparency and provide freight rail users and the public with much more relevant and precise information relating to rail service and performance in Canada.

Under the Transportation Modernization Act, the data are reported by rail carriers to Transport Canada and then disseminated on the Statistics Canada website. See Weekly Rail Performance Indicators, Transport Canada for an explanation of the different methods railways use to calculate these metrics. Readers should use caution in comparing railways between each other prior to having read the methodology as data between railways is not always perfectly comparable.

Sources:
Statistics Canada, Table 23-10-0276-01, Weekly rail system performance indicators, by commodities, Transport Canada; Table 23-10-0277-01, Weekly rail system performance indicator, by type of rail car, Transport Canada; Table 23-10-0274-01, Weekly rail terminal performance indicator, Transport Canada; Table 23-10-0275-01, Weekly performance indicators of grain transportation by rail, Transport Canada.
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