SNCB / NMBS train delays, Tuesday 29 September 2026

Delays recorded on this day, in Belgium local time. Below: how it went, then the whole day as one file to download.

How late the trains were

91% of stops were reached less than 5 minutes late, and half of them within 1 minute of the timetable.

Trains
3,557
5 min late or more
9% of stops
15 min late or more
1% of stops
Median delay
1 min
Cancelled trains
45

Recorded from 00:00 to 23:59. The figures use the last delay announced at each of the 46,457 stops that had one, as the operator sent it. Cancelled trains (marked cancelled, or with every stop skipped), skipped stops and values over an hour early or twelve hours late are left out, as are 14 placeholder values the feed sent instead of a time (a train “here, now” hours late, or one time repeated at every stop). 100% of the stops of the trains that ran (skipped stops aside) had a delay.

The archive saw 3,557 of the 3,785 trains the timetable planned for this day.

Archive outage from 05:00 to 12:15: the archive itself recorded nothing then, from any source (the archive's collector ran out of memory and restarted in a loop). Our fault, not SNCB / NMBS’s: these figures cover the rest of the day.

Most delayed trains

LineLeft its first stopWhere it was latestDelay
IC Anvers-Central -- Poperinge16:07Gand-Dampoort69 min
IC Lille Flandres (FR) -- Anvers-Central16:09Gand-Dampoort69 min
IC Luxembourg (LU) -- Liège-Guillemins20:07Gouvy63 min
IC Eupen -- Ostende09:17Louvain51 min
IC Luxembourg (LU) -- Liège-Guillemins20:16Rivage51 min

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https://data.train-archive.eu/daily/provider=be-sncb/service=TripUpdate/date=2026-09-29.parquet?token=YOUR_TOKEN

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A few rows of the file

14 different trains, each at one stop. The CSV has more columns, listed below.

Stop stop_nameLine routeArrival predicted_arrivalDelay (min) arrival_delay_minStatus trip_status
ArlonL Luxembourg (LU) -- Arlon00:356scheduled
LuttreS62 Luttre -- Charleroi-Central06:550scheduled
WavreS61 Wavre -- Jambes10:554scheduled
ZottegemS8 Louvain-la-Neuve -- Zottegem12:050scheduled
DinantIC Brussels Airport-Zaventem -- Dinant13:041scheduled
EssenS32 Essen -- Puurs13:550scheduled
Anvers-CentralS1 Nivelles -- Anvers-Central15:550scheduled
Flémalle-HauteS42 Liers -- Flémalle-Haute15:540scheduled
GrammontP Alost -- Grammont17:064scheduled
Liège-GuilleminsIC Luxembourg (LU) -- Liège-Guillemins19:594scheduled
BincheL Binche -- Braine-le-Comte19:030scheduled
LouvainIC Louvain -- Charleroi-Central20:410scheduled
MolL Hasselt -- Mol21:552scheduled
Liège-GuilleminsBUS Maastricht (NL) -- Liège-Guillemins01:260scheduled

What the columns mean

service_date
The day the train was scheduled to run.
route
The line, as the operator names it (for example IC 3 or S2).
trip_id
The operator’s code for this train run. The same train on another day has another code.
trip_start_time
When the train was scheduled to leave its first station.
stop_sequence, stop_id, stop_name
Which stop along the route: its position, code and name.
arrival_delay_min, departure_delay_min
How late the train was at that stop, in minutes. Negative means early. Empty when the operator gave a time but no delay.
predicted_arrival, predicted_departure
The time the operator last announced for that stop, in local time.
observed_at
When that last announcement was seen. After the train has passed, it is what happened.
trip_status
scheduled, cancelled or added (a train that was not in the timetable).
stop_status
skipped when the train did not stop there; empty otherwise.
route_id
The route’s code in the timetable, to join with it.