All German rail (DELFI via gtfs.de) train delays, Tuesday 20 October 2026

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

gtfs.de's realtime feed (CC BY 4.0) carries DB long-distance trains only where their lines cross the VRR and NVBW areas. From 23 October 2026, the DB Fernverkehr trains it lacks (international legs, SyltShuttle, EC/ECE, some IC lines) are added from Deutsche Bahn's Timetables API (DB API Marketplace, CC BY 4.0), with delays at German stations only.

How late the trains were

84% of stops were reached less than 5 minutes late, and half of them within 1 minute of the timetable.

Trains
44,378
5 min late or more
16% of stops
15 min late or more
3% of stops
Median delay
1 min
Cancelled trains
556

Recorded from 00:01 to 23:58. The figures use the last delay announced at each of the 589,593 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 266 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.

Fewer trains than usual: the archive saw 25,672 of the 41,486 trains the timetable planned (62%, against 94% on a usual day). The feed stopped or repeated old data for part of the day.

Not counted in the trains planned: 1,896 more trains the timetable lists on lines the live feed has not carried in the week before (ZVON Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien, SBB, DB Fernverkehr AG, Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH, ÖBB, Ceske Drahy and 27 more).

Most delayed trains

LineLeft its first stopWhere it was latestDelay
ICE 10Berlin-Wannsee167 min
RB20Herzogenrath-August-Schmidt-Platz167 min
RE15Meppen166 min
ICE 1Hamburg-Altona(S)144 min
RE15Papenburg(Ems)143 min

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Read this day from code

This day’s table of final delays has a fixed address. Read it from DuckDB, Polars or curl, with one of your API tokens in place of YOUR_TOKEN:

https://data.train-archive.eu/daily/provider=de-gtfsde/service=TripUpdate/date=2026-10-20.parquet?token=YOUR_TOKEN

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A few rows of the file

15 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
RB1614:270.7scheduled
Boppard HbfRB3719:570scheduled
Sembach, SiedlungS4109:033.1scheduled
Völkersbach LammS8518:570scheduled
Gerhardshofen Am SteinbruchS915:131scheduled
GreizRE318:432scheduled
Sinsheim(Elsenz) HbfS700:080scheduled
Saalfeld(Saale)RB2322:551scheduled
München Hbf Gl.5-10RE508:510scheduled
Einbeck MitteRB8620:485scheduled
Rüsselsheim OpelwerkRB5823:241scheduled
Schnaitheim Arnold-Böcklin-StrS314:181.6scheduled
FuldaRB510:381scheduled
Bimöhlen, DorfplatzS317:051scheduled
Hemsbach, Gottl.-Daimler-Str.S313:150scheduled

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.