What it does
National Rail provides journey planning, live departures and arrivals for Great Britain’s rail network. It combines station and train-company information with ticket guidance, assistance resources and disruption searches.
Use planned disruption before departure day, then live departures when you are ready to travel. National Rail’s disruption section distinguishes current incidents, planned improvement work and station alerts, helping keep a future engineering change separate from today’s train status.
The site also provides short videos for some planned disruptions, explaining when a different route or replacement service may be needed. That can be useful when travelling through an unfamiliar station. For the ticket, open the ticket-type and railcard information; for the physical journey, use station facilities and Passenger Assist. These are different parts of preparing the same trip. The geographic scope is Great Britain, so use an appropriate local source for travel outside that network.
Strengths
- Separates live disruption from planned engineering and station alerts
- Links station research, ticket information and assistance resources
Best for
- People planning or following a rail journey in Great Britain