Data sources

Everything on RailFeed is built from published railway industry data and open datasets. Nothing here is generated or estimated unless the page it appears on says so. This is where each part comes from.

Real-time and schedule feeds

Source	Provides	Used for
Network Rail Open Data	TRUST train movements, activations and cancellations; CIF and VSTP schedules	Departure boards, delays, cancellations, service tracking — the live half of nearly every page
Darwin Push Port	Real-time train formations — coach class and facilities per position	Coach counts and formation detail on the board and service pages
Rail Data Marketplace	Passenger Train Allocation and Consist — physical unit and coach serial numbers, mileage, vehicle names	The fleet and unit pages, and the real unit numbers shown against services

Reference and geography

Source	Provides	Used for
Network Rail BPLAN	Sectional running times and timing load definitions	Estimating when a train passes a location its timetable books no time for
Network Rail GTCL	Geospatial Track Centre Line — the real alignment of the track	Drawing routes on the charter and unit maps along the line rather than as straight lines
Delay Attribution Guide	The industry's cancellation and delay reason codes and their wording	Turning a two-letter code into the reason shown on the delays and cancellations boards
Darwin reason codes	Darwin's own numbered reasons for late running, with the wording the industry shows passengers	Explaining why a train is late when you open its calling points. A different list from the Delay Attribution Guide above, and not interchangeable with it
OpenStreetMap	Location coordinates, and the map tiles on every map here	Every map on the site, and positioning locations the industry data gives no coordinates for
NaPTAN	National public transport access node coordinates	Station coordinates, where available

Licensing and attribution

Map data and map tiles are © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. Maps are rendered with Leaflet.

Real-time and schedule data is sourced from Network Rail and National Rail under their respective open data licences, which require acknowledgement of the source. RailFeed is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official service of Network Rail, National Rail Enquiries, or any train operator.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Not an official source. RailFeed reports what the railway's own systems reported and carries no guarantee of accuracy or availability. For travel decisions, use National Rail Enquiries or your operator.