Great British rail train delays, Thursday 1 October 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

90% of stops were reached less than 5 minutes late, and half of them within 0 minutes of the timetable.

Trains
22,314
5 min late or more
10% of stops
15 min late or more
2% of stops
Median delay
0 min
Cancelled trains
268 3 announced over a day ahead, 265 later

Recorded from 00:01 to 23:58. The figures use the last delay announced at each of the 275,668 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 145 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 22,269 of the 22,271 trains the timetable planned for this day.

Most delayed trains

LineLeft its first stopWhere it was latestDelay
TfW Rail Transport for WalesEbbw Vale Town173 min
GWR Great Western RailwayPortsmouth Harbour (Platform 1)132 min
c2cStanford-le-Hope (Platform 2)131 min
GWR Great Western RailwayPortsmouth Harbour (Platform 1)131 min
GWR Great Western RailwayPortsmouth Harbour (Platform 1)130 min

Download

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=gb-aubin/service=TripUpdate/date=2026-10-01.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
BroxbourneGreater Anglia02:55-1added
Birmingham New Street (Platform 4b)LNR London Northwestern Railway11:233scheduled
Gospel Oak (Platform 3)Suffragette Suffragette line07:57-2scheduled
London Liverpool Street (Platform 9)Greater Anglia00:284scheduled
London Bridge (Platform 13)Southern08:291scheduled
Cardiff Queen Street (Platform 1)TfW Rail Transport for Wales21:58-2scheduled
Oxenholme Lake District (Platform 3)Northern19:140scheduled
Weymouth (Platform 2)SWR South Western Railway21:048scheduled
Glasgow Queen Street (Platform 3)ScotRail13:350scheduled
Adwick (Platform 2)Northern07:180scheduled
London Cannon Street (Platform 4)Southeastern17:03-1scheduled
Heathrow Terminal 5 (Platform 3)Heathrow Express17:00-1scheduled
Paisley CanalScotRail11:25-1scheduled
Wemyss Bay (Platform 2)ScotRail16:14-1scheduled

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.