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27th October 2026

  • A calmer light theme The light theme's pink tint is gone from the background, panels and borders, and the platform numbers and heavy rules are a softer slate instead of black, so the times stand out more than the boxes around them. The dark theme is unchanged.

26th October 2026

  • Metro and Underground: what we can see Our data covers trains on National Rail track, so the Tyne and Wear Metro page shows only the Metro trains through Sunderland, and the London Underground page only the stretches the Tube shares with National Rail. Both pages now say so, with a link to the full network's own status.

25th October 2026

  • Light, dark, or follow your device The theme icons at the foot of every page now have a third choice beside light and dark: follow your device, so the site switches when your phone or computer does. It is what the site does until you pick one.
  • Disruption alerts on the home page When National Rail is warning the whole country, such as a storm, the home page shows its message in a red banner at the top, with any main lines that are badly delayed. With more than one, they take turns; pause them or step through with the arrows.
  • Each station's day at a glance Every station's board now starts with how its day is going: how many trains call there today, who runs them, how many have been on time so far and how many are cancelled.

23rd October 2026

  • New operator pages Every operator's page has been redesigned. It opens with how the operator is running right now, then lists the trains running late at the moment, its busiest routes today and how punctual they are, a chart of the last fortnight, and any disruption notices at its main stations.

22nd October 2026

  • See departures as a station board Pick Station Board beside Departures and Arrivals on any station's page to see its departures as they appear on the screens at the station, with how many coaches each train has. The site remembers your choice; pick Departures to go back to the table.
  • Operators in their own colours Each operator now has a small bar in its own colour beside its name on station boards and in the operators table, and a train's page is underlined in its operator's colour, so you can tell LNER from Avanti at a glance.
  • Every day since August with a free account Anyone can look back over the last 30 days of boards, trains, units and performance. With a free account you can see every day back to 20 August 2026, when recording began.

19th October 2026

  • A home page that starts with your station Make a station yours and the home page opens on its next five trains, with the trains you follow beside them and the network figures in one line below. New here? Search for any station from the top of the page.
  • Which train it is, on the board Station boards now show the class beside the carriage count, such as 11 carriages Class 390, so you can tell which train is coming before you open it.
  • Junction boards show every train A junction or signal has no passenger stops, so its board now opens straight on every train that passes rather than an empty board.
  • Find junctions and keep them as favourites Start a search with + to include junctions and signals as well as stations (try +narroways). Add them to your favourites the same way on your profile.
  • Home page figures compared with last week The figures on the home page are now compared with the same day last week, so a quieter Sunday timetable no longer shows as a drop.

15th October 2026

  • Also calls at is easier to use Its suggestions are no longer cut off on a phone, and typing a name such as Glasgow offers the places it could mean.

11th October 2026

  • A map of every train's route Train pages now show the route on a map under the calling points, with the stops already made in colour and the last place the train was reported ringed.

28th September 2026

  • Jump to any hour on a board Press the time window between the hour buttons on a station board to pick any hour of that day.

27th September 2026

  • Follow a unit without an account first Press Follow on any unit and a free account sends you a morning email of where it is working.
  • Units on the headcode pages Searching a headcode now shows which units worked each train, beside the class.
  • Each day's figures in its link preview A shared link to a day's performance page now shows that day's on-time figure and cancellations.

25th September 2026

  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Charters and specials Every railtour, charter and special stock move of the day, with the stock working it. In the Fleet menu.
  • Station messages on the boards Today's boards show the disruption messages National Rail is displaying for that station.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • How is your operator running? Each operator page opens with a one-line answer from the last hour and the day so far.
  • 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.
  • Class pages introduce themselves Who built the class and when, how many are in traffic, who runs them, and a table of the subclasses.
  • Every station, A to Z Browse every station by its first letter, and each board now links to the stations either side of it.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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

  • Pick a date on any board Click the date on a station board to open a calendar and see any day.
  • Open rows in a new tab Cmd-click, Ctrl-click or middle-click anywhere on a row to open it in a new tab.
  • 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.
  • Search by train ID Type a train's ID, such as W70818, into the search box to go straight to it.

21st September 2026