Irish Rail (NTA) train delays, Tuesday 29 September 2026
Delays recorded on this day, in Ireland local time. Below: how it went, then the whole day as one file to download.
How late the trains were
75% of stops were reached less than 5 minutes late, and half of them within 1 minute of the timetable.
- Trains
- 870
- 5 min late or more
- 25% of stops
- 15 min late or more
- 2% of stops
- Median delay
- 1 min
- Cancelled trains
- 0
Recorded from 00:00 to 23:59. The figures use the last delay announced at each of the 11,084 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 2 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 870 of the 879 trains the timetable planned for this day.
Archive outage from 04:00 to 11:15: the archive itself recorded nothing then, from any source (the archive's collector ran out of memory and restarted in a loop). Our fault, not Irish Rail (NTA)’s: these figures cover the rest of the day.
Most delayed trains
| Line | Left its first stop | Where it was latest | Delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| rail Dublin - Tralee | 17:25 | Farranfore | 72 min |
| InterCity Dublin - Cork | 15:00 | Mallow | 58 min |
| rail Dublin - Waterford | 20:20 | Dublin Heuston | 52 min |
| 19:25 | Dublin Heuston | 48 min | |
| 16:32 | Limerick (Colbert) | 44 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=ie-nta/service=TripUpdate/date=2026-09-29.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manulla Junction | rail Dublin - Westport | 05:32 | 0 | scheduled |
| Greystones | DART Bray - Howth | 08:22 | 4 | scheduled |
| Dublin Heuston | rail Dublin - Limerick | 10:07 | 14 | scheduled |
| Howth | 10:16 | 5 | scheduled | |
| Cork (Kent) | 10:25 | 0 | scheduled | |
| Bray (Daly) | DART Bray - Howth | 12:32 | 2 | scheduled |
| Newbridge | 13:21 | 2 | scheduled | |
| Limerick (Colbert) | rail Limerick - Galway | 15:42 | 0 | scheduled |
| Sligo (MacDiarmada) | rail Dublin - Sligo | 18:18 | 0 | scheduled |
| Portlaoise | Commuter Dublin - Portlaoise | 17:41 | 5 | scheduled |
| Dublin Heuston | 19:56 | -4 | scheduled | |
| Connolly | 19:10 | 4 | scheduled | |
| Cork (Kent) | 19:55 | 0 | scheduled | |
| Grand Canal Dock | 22:04 | 0 | scheduled | |
| M3 Parkway | rail Dublin - Maynooth | 00:09 | 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.