Accessible UK Train Timetables

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Options

Search only sleeper trains

Try and show only direct trains

Include slower, overtaken trains

Things of interest

• Live departure boards, using geolocation; or go to /live/<station> directly. You can bookmark, and specify multiple stations by separating them with a bar “|”.
• brum2london, a handy checker for working out what trains to get between Birmingham and London.
• A vaguely live map of trains, showing approximate positions of trains on approach to a particular station (requires JavaScript). There’s a live Tube map too.

• Bookmarkable timetable URLs: for example, traintimes.org.uk /manchester /edinburgh will give you the next trains from Manchester to Edinburgh.

  “n” or “nearest” for the From will, if possible, ask you to share your current location to find your current closest station (uses NAPTAN, Department for Transport data © Crown copyright and database right), e.g. traintimes.org.uk /nearest /oxford.

  You can put ?via=NAME or ?avoid=NAME at the end of a URL to only show journeys via/avoiding a particular station.

  Adding a time, like traintimes.org.uk /cardiff /birmingham /8:00, gives you the timetable starting from there. A full return journey is of the form traintimes.org.uk /london /leeds /10:00 /next-tuesday /16:00 /next-wednesday.

  The time is departure time by default; add an “a” at the end for arrival time, or use “first” or “last” for first or last trains. For example, traintimes.org.uk /london /glasgow /first /tomorrow or traintimes.org.uk /sheffield /liverpool /11:00a.

  You can put “/fares” at the end of any bookmarkable URL to go directly to the fares page for that journey. This will be slower than the non-fares lookup. For example traintimes.org.uk/cardiff/bristol/fares.

  “/changes=0” at the end of a bookmarkable URL will restrict the results to direct trains if possible, e.g. traintimes.org.uk /birmingham /manchester /changes=0.

• For an iPhone-ish interface, you could try i.traintimes.org.uk (uses IUI, so really only for iPhone, other browsers at your own risk), note that it lags behind and doesn't work as well as the normal site.
• Ian Scott has made a Firefox bookmarklet.

This is an accessible version of the National Rail Enquiries train timetable site, giving access to the information on that site no matter what browser you are using, with no requirement for cookies or JavaScript. It works by screenscraping the information on the official site, and takes the opportunity to remove the “Please Wait” pages, move things around, and improve things a bit. Many thanks to National Rail Enquiries for allowing this site to persist.

— Matthew