North East Line leads rise in MRT reliability in February

Train punctuality also generally improves across network, boosted by NEL and CCL

- Esther Loi

Outram Park station on the North East Line, which emerged as the most reliable line after clocking 4.42 million train-km between delays in February, double the moving average of 2.21 million train-km in January.

(ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG)

The reliability of the MRT network improved in February, with that of the North East Line (NEL) doubling from the month before, based on figures released by the Land Transport Authority (LTA).

On average, trains clocked 1.74 million train-km between delays lasting more than five minutes between March 2025 and February 2026, up from the average of 1.67 million train-km between February 2025 and January 2026.

This remains above Singapore’s rail reliability target - measured by mean kilometres between failure (MKBF) - of one million train-km for the entire MRT network.

The MKBF, which reflects how far a train travels before encountering a delay of more than five minutes, is a widely used engineering measure of rail reliability. LTA’s figures are based on a 12-month moving average of the MKBF.