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How are delay hours calculated?
The 3,300 hours of delays mentioned in the story are calculated by adding up the individual delay minutes experienced by every passenger on affected services. For example, if a train with 100 passengers is delayed by 10 minutes, that's 1,000 passenger delay minutes, contributing to the total.
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