Accessible UK Train Timetables

Things of interest

• Some notes on performance How this site tries to be as small and fast as possible.
• Split ticket finder For saving money by buying multiple tickets for your journey.
• Live departure boards /live/<station>. Bookmark! Separate with “|” for multiple stations.
• Live Tube map of the London Underground. There’s a live London bus map too.

• Bookmarkable timetable URLs: for example, https://traintimes.org.uk /manchester /edinburgh will give you the next trains from Manchester to Edinburgh. “n” or “nearest” for the From will, if possible, ask you to share your current location to find your current closest station e.g. https://traintimes.org.uk /nearest /oxford.

  Adding a time, like https://traintimes.org.uk /cardiff /birmingham /8:00, gives you the timetable starting from there. A full return journey is of the form https://traintimes.org.uk /london /leeds /10:00 /next-tuesday /16:00 /next-wednesday.

  The time is departure time by default; add an “a” at the end for arrival time, or use “first” or “last” for first or last trains. For example, https://traintimes.org.uk /london /glasgow /first /tomorrow or https://traintimes.org.uk /sheffield /liverpool /11:00a.

  You can put ?via=NAME or ?avoid=NAME at the end of a URL to only show journeys via/avoiding a particular station. Add ?railcard=TYPE to use that railcard prices (options can be seen in the drop-down).

  “/changes=0” at the end of a bookmarkable URL will restrict the results to direct trains if possible, e.g. https://traintimes.org.uk /birmingham /manchester /changes=0.

This is an accessible version of the National Rail Enquiries train timetable site, giving access to the information on that site no matter what browser you are using, with no requirement for cookies or JavaScript. It works by screenscraping the information on the official site, and takes the opportunity to remove the “Please Wait” pages and move some things around. Many thanks to National Rail Enquiries for allowing this site to persist.

— Matthew