Great British rail train positions, Tuesday 29 September 2026

Train positions recorded on this day, in Great Britain local time. Below: how it went, then the whole day as one file to download.

Train positions from this feed mostly come without coordinates (none at all since the evening of 28 September 2026): the rows have the train and its status, but latitude and longitude are empty.

Trains
18,455
Rows
296,054
Recorded
00:00 to 23:59

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.

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https://data.train-archive.eu/provider=gb-aubin/service=VehiclePosition/date=2026-09-29/day.parquet?token=YOUR_TOKEN

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A few rows of the file

15 positions from across the day. The CSV has more columns, listed below.

Time timeStatus status
23:01stopped at
23:02stopped at
23:01stopped at
23:00stopped at
17:01stopped at
16:53stopped at
17:05stopped at
17:07stopped at
17:13stopped at
17:08stopped at
17:22stopped at
23:59stopped at
23:59stopped at
23:59stopped at
23:59on the way to

What the columns mean

time
When the position was measured, in local time.
route, trip_id
The line and the train run.
vehicle
The train’s number or name, as the operator gives it.
latitude, longitude
Where it was.
bearing
Direction of travel in degrees (0 is north, 90 east).
speed_kmh
Speed in km/h, when the operator sends it.
stop_name, status
The next or current stop, and whether the train is on the way to it or stopped at it.
route_id
The route’s code in the timetable, to join with it.