Great British rail train delays, Friday 23 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

70% of stops were reached less than 5 minutes late, and half of them within 2 minutes of the timetable.

Trains
15,429
5 min late or more
30% of stops
15 min late or more
10% of stops
Median delay
2 min
Cancelled trains
1,138

Recorded from 11:25 to 23:59. The figures use the last delay announced at each of the 170,454 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 3 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.

Fewer trains than usual: the archive saw 15,429 of the 21,664 trains the timetable planned (71%, against 100% on a usual day). The feed stopped or repeated old data for part of the day.

No data from 06:00–14:00: the feed repeated the same data (06:00–11:00), so these figures cover only part of the day.

Most delayed trains

LineLeft its first stopWhere it was latestDelay
GWR Great Western RailwayBristol Temple Meads251 min
GWR Great Western RailwayCastle Cary251 min
EMR East Midlands RailwayNottingham229 min
GWR Great Western RailwayLondon Paddington226 min
CrossCountryLeicester215 min

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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=2026-10-23.parquet?token=YOUR_TOKEN

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A few rows of the file

13 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
New Cross GateWindrush Windrush line00:18-2scheduled
Welwyn Garden City (Platform 4)Great Northern11:576scheduled
Abbey Wood (Platform 3)Elizabeth line19:19-3scheduled
Barking Riverside (Platform 1)Suffragette Suffragette line12:16-3scheduled
East Croydon (Platform 5)Southern13:00-1scheduled
Liverpool Lime StreetNorthern16:40-3scheduled
RomfordLiberty Liberty line17:340scheduled
LeedsNorthern23:453scheduled
Ipswich (Platform 3B)Greater Anglia16:20-4scheduled
BrightonSouthern16:456scheduled
Helensburgh Central (Platform 2)ScotRail11:461scheduled
Stourbridge JunctionWMR West Midlands Railway13:280scheduled
Birmingham New StreetWMR West Midlands Railway17:2817scheduled

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.