Great British rail train delays, Tuesday 29 September 2026
Delays recorded on this day, in Great Britain local time. Below: how it went, then the whole day as one file to download.
Until 21 October 2026, Aubin's relay of National Rail's Darwin (frozen from 21 October 16:48 London time). From late October 2026, straight from Darwin's Push Port (data: National Rail, via the Rail Data Marketplace; not for commercial redistribution), matched to this timetable; actual times are marked apart from estimates.
How late the trains were
92% of stops were reached less than 5 minutes late, and half of them within 0 minutes of the timetable.
- Trains
- 22,332
- 5 min late or more
- 8% of stops
- 15 min late or more
- 1% of stops
- Median delay
- 0 min
- Cancelled trains
- 265 2 announced over a day ahead, 263 later
Recorded from 00:00 to 23:59. The figures use the last delay announced at each of the 276,646 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 41 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 22,263 of the 22,267 trains the timetable planned for this day.
Archive outage from 04:00 to 11:15: 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 Great British rail’s: these figures cover the rest of the day.
Most delayed trains
| Line | Left its first stop | Where it was latest | Delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caledonian Sleeper | 19:50 | Crewe (Platform 5) | 288 min |
| Caledonian Sleeper | 20:26 | Crewe (Platform 5) | 288 min |
| Caledonian Sleeper | Crewe (Platform 5) | 288 min | |
| Gatwick Express | London Victoria (Platform 14) | 264 min | |
| Chiltern Railways | London Marylebone (Platform 1) | 253 min |
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https://data.train-archive.eu/daily/provider=gb-aubin/service=TripUpdate/date=2026-09-29.parquet?token=YOUR_TOKEN
A few rows of the file
15 different trains, each at one stop. The CSV has more columns, listed below.
Stop stop_name | Line route | Arrival predicted_arrival | Delay (min) arrival_delay_min | Status trip_status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London Victoria | Southeastern | 05:00 | 0 | added |
| Milngavie (Platform 2) | ScotRail | 10:59 | 0 | scheduled |
| Watford Junction (Platform 3) | Lioness Lioness line | 17:01 | -4 | scheduled |
| Kings Lynn (Platform 1) | Great Northern | 08:39 | 0 | scheduled |
| London Victoria (Platform 15) | Southern | 18:19 | 20 | scheduled |
| Cardiff Queen Street (Platform 1) | TfW Rail Transport for Wales | 08:30 | 0 | scheduled |
| Manchester Airport (Platform 4A) | Northern | 11:39 | 3 | scheduled |
| Weymouth (Platform 3) | SWR South Western Railway | 23:45 | 20 | scheduled |
| Glasgow Queen Street (Platform 3) | ScotRail | 16:37 | 0 | scheduled |
| Sheffield (Platform 3a) | Northern | 20:14 | 0 | scheduled |
| Hayes (Platform 2) | Southeastern | 17:51 | -2 | scheduled |
| Heathrow Terminal 5 (Platform 3) | Heathrow Express | 10:30 | -1 | scheduled |
| Glasgow Central (Platform 13) | ScotRail | 10:02 | 11 | scheduled |
| Glasgow Central (Platform 12) | ScotRail | 16:32 | 4 | scheduled |
| Birmingham New Street (Platform 7M) | WMR West Midlands Railway | 17:15 | 4 | scheduled |
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.