Great British rail train delays, Saturday 31 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: 20,561
5 min late or more: 11% of stops
15 min late or more: 2% of stops
Median delay: 0 min
Cancelled trains: 576

Recorded from 00:00 to 23:59. The figures use the last delay announced at each of the 237,365 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. 100% of the stops of the trains that ran (skipped stops aside) had a delay.

The archive saw 19,996 of the 19,996 trains the timetable planned for this day.

Most delayed trains

Line	Where it was latest	Delay
Caledonian Sleeper	Inverkeithing (Platform 2)	315 min
Avanti Avanti West Coast	London Euston	195 min
LNR London Northwestern Railway	London Euston	192 min
LNR London Northwestern Railway	London Euston	171 min
Avanti Avanti West Coast	London Euston	169 min

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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 Euston	Lumo Stirling	22:21	144	scheduled
Sutton	Thameslink	19:50	3	scheduled
Abbey Wood (Platform 4)	Elizabeth line	22:20	1	scheduled
West Kirby	Wirral	11:26	-1	scheduled
London Victoria	Southern	14:50	1	scheduled
Edge Hill (Platform 2)	Northern	13:04	0	scheduled
Kilburn High Road	Lioness Lioness line	23:54	13	scheduled
Hampton Court	SWR South Western Railway	21:13	1	scheduled
Manchester Victoria	Northern	06:30	-2	scheduled
London Liverpool Street	Stansted Express	14:45	1	scheduled
London Charing Cross	Southeastern	13:30	2	scheduled
Highbury & Islington	Windrush Windrush line	05:15	-3	scheduled
Glasgow Central	ScotRail	19:50	0	scheduled
Edinburgh	ScotRail	14:55	-2	scheduled
Birmingham New Street	WMR West Midlands Railway	17:11	0	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.