Great British rail train delays, Sunday 18 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
91% of stops were reached less than 5 minutes late, and half of them within 0 minutes of the timetable.
- Trains
- 12,912
- 5 min late or more
- 9% of stops
- 15 min late or more
- 1% of stops
- Median delay
- 0 min
- Cancelled trains
- 236 13 announced over a day ahead, 223 later
Recorded from 00:01 to 23:58. The figures use the last delay announced at each of the 145,912 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 112 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 12,798 of the 12,800 trains the timetable planned for this day.
Most delayed trains
| Line | Left its first stop | Where it was latest | Delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| CrossCountry | 14:54 | Tiverton Parkway (Platform 1) | 137 min |
| SWR South Western Railway | 07:53 | Portsmouth Harbour (Platform 4) | 136 min |
| c2c | 19:23 | Shoeburyness (Platform 3) | 130 min |
| GWR Great Western Railway | Portsmouth Harbour (Platform 4) | 126 min | |
| SWR South Western Railway | Portsmouth Harbour (Platform 5) | 123 min |
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Read this day from code
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https://data.train-archive.eu/daily/provider=gb-aubin/service=TripUpdate/date=2026-10-18.parquet?token=YOUR_TOKEN
A few rows of the file
14 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 Fenchurch Street (Platform 3) | c2c | 06:36 | -2 | added |
| Edinburgh (Platform 15) | ScotRail | 16:44 | -1 | scheduled |
| Armathwaite (Platform 1) | Northern | 11:53 | 11 | scheduled |
| Windsor & Eton Central (Platform BAY) | GWR Great Western Railway | 09:42 | -3 | scheduled |
| Cambridge (Platform 4) | Greater Anglia | 13:26 | 0 | scheduled |
| Llandudno Junction (Platform 2) | TfW Rail Transport for Wales | 16:54 | 0 | scheduled |
| Preston (Platform 4) | Northern | 20:10 | -5 | scheduled |
| Meridian Water (Platform 2) | Greater Anglia | 10:02 | 0 | scheduled |
| Aldershot (Platform 3) | SWR South Western Railway | 20:42 | -1 | scheduled |
| Leeds (Platform 12a) | Northern | 17:35 | 1 | scheduled |
| London Charing Cross (Platform 2) | Southeastern | 12:26 | -2 | scheduled |
| Cambridge (Platform 1) | Thameslink | 12:50 | 0 | scheduled |
| Anniesland (Platform 3) | ScotRail | 10:54 | -1 | scheduled |
| Birmingham New Street (Platform 3a) | WMR West Midlands Railway | 17:08 | -2 | 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.