TRANSPORT Secretary Chris Grayling refused to take personal responsibility for this summer’s timetable fiasco today, despite renewed calls for his resignation.

In the aftermath of a scathing report, Mr Grayling toured broadcast studios to claim that the chaos on the railways following the disastrous introduction of new timetables was somehow not his fault.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) criticised the Department for Transport (DfT), Network Rail and train operators for their “failures” to identify the risk of disruption and said the rail industry had “placed engineering and planning concerns ahead of serving its passengers.”