What's new
What's new
25th September 2026
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Make any station your station
Press "Make this my station" on a board and the home page opens on it next time, no account needed.
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Back to today from any past day
An old board, train or unit page now links straight to what is happening there today.
24th September 2026
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Alerts for the trains and units you follow
An email when a train you follow is cancelled or running 15 minutes late, and a morning email of where the units you follow are working. Press Follow on a unit's page; turn alerts off on your profile.
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Delay Repay on trains you follow
A train you follow shows how late it reached your stop and links to the operator's own Delay Repay page.
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Charters and specials
Every railtour, charter and special stock move of the day, with the stock working it. In the Fleet menu.
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Station messages on the boards
Today's boards show the disruption messages National Rail is displaying for that station.
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Stansted Express has its own page
How it is running, the next trains each way from Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport, and the units out today.
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Credits for the live data
Every page now credits National Rail, Rail Delivery Group and OpenTrainTimes, and the About page says what each feed supplies.
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Tidier station names
Abbreviations from the timetable are written out: Queenstown Road (Battersea), London King's Cross, Liverpool South Parkway (Low Level), Paddington (Elizabeth line).
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Heathrow Express shows its trains
The twelve Class 387s that run the service now appear under Heathrow Express, which is listed with the passenger operators again.
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How is your operator running?
Each operator page opens with a one-line answer from the last hour and the day so far.
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A page for every unit
A unit's own page shows today and every day it worked in the last fortnight, and still works on a day it is resting.
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Class pages introduce themselves
Who built the class and when, how many are in traffic, who runs them, and a table of the subclasses.
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Every station, A to Z
Browse every station by its first letter, and each board now links to the stations either side of it.
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Better link previews
A link shared in a chat or a forum now shows that page's own card: the station, the train, the class or the operator.
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Daily punctuality on Bluesky
Yesterday on the railway, posted every morning at 08:00. Follow us on Bluesky and X from the links at the foot of every page.
23rd September 2026
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Trains cancelled part of the way
Trains, boards, unit diagrams and the punctuality figures now show when a train was cancelled for only part of its journey, where, and why.
22nd September 2026
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Pick a date on any board
Click the date on a station board to open a calendar and see any day.
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Open rows in a new tab
Cmd-click, Ctrl-click or middle-click anywhere on a row to open it in a new tab.
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Each day's figure on the punctuality chart
An operator's fortnight now prints each day's on-time figure, coloured by how good it was.
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Search by train ID
Type a train's ID, such as W70818, into the search box to go straight to it.