Great British rail train delays, Tuesday 20 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
89% of stops were reached less than 5 minutes late, and half of them within 0 minutes of the timetable.
- Trains
- 22,270
- 5 min late or more
- 11% of stops
- 15 min late or more
- 2% of stops
- Median delay
- 0 min
- Cancelled trains
- 288
Recorded from 00:01 to 23:59. The figures use the last delay announced at each of the 274,621 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 122 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 22,196 of the 22,196 trains the timetable planned for this day.
Most delayed trains
| Line | Left its first stop | Where it was latest | Delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| TfW Rail Transport for Wales | Pontypool & New Inn | 215 min | |
| GWR Great Western Railway | Cardiff Central (Platform 1) | 181 min | |
| GWR Great Western Railway | Port Talbot Parkway (Platform 1) | 161 min | |
| TfW Rail Transport for Wales | Severn Tunnel Junction (Platform 1) | 147 min | |
| Caledonian Sleeper | 19:50 | Birmingham International (Platform 5) | 143 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=2026-10-20.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 Fenchurch Street (Platform 4) | c2c | 05:25 | 2 | replacement |
| Moorgate (Platform 9) | Great Northern | 19:07 | -1 | scheduled |
| Bradford Forster Square (Platform 2) | Northern | 19:55 | 0 | scheduled |
| West Kirby (Platform 1) | Wirral | 15:27 | 0 | scheduled |
| London Victoria (Platform 18) | Southern | 16:36 | 8 | scheduled |
| London Liverpool Street (Platform 1) | Weaver Weaver line | 22:20 | -2 | scheduled |
| London Liverpool Street (Platform 3) | Weaver Weaver line | 16:19 | -3 | scheduled |
| London Waterloo (Platform 4) | SWR South Western Railway | 09:55 | 1 | scheduled |
| Lanark (Platform 1) | ScotRail | 17:54 | 6 | scheduled |
| New Cross (Platform D) | Windrush Windrush line | 10:38 | 3 | scheduled |
| Dartford (Platform 3) | Southeastern | 00:46 | 1 | scheduled |
| London Paddington (Platform 7) | Heathrow Express | 08:50 | 18 | scheduled |
| Edinburgh (Platform 1) | ScotRail | 15:30 | 4 | scheduled |
| North Berwick | ScotRail | 20:12 | -1 | scheduled |
| Birmingham New Street (Platform 7M) | WMR West Midlands Railway | 17:17 | 6 | 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.