Data sources and credits

Where RailPilot's train times, platforms, stations and disruption notices come from, and the credits the data licences ask us to show.

Check the boards

RailPilot shows best-effort live train information taken from third-party feeds. Times, platforms and positions can be late, incomplete or wrong. The data is provided “as is”, with no guarantee that it is accurate or that it will keep coming.

For important decisions, such as whether to board, run for a connection or change platform, always check the departure boards and station screens, or ask staff.

Where the data comes from#

Every source RailPilot uses today, who provides it and the licence it comes under. The exact credits are listed below the table.

Source	Provider	What we use it for	Licence and credit
Train movements (TRUST), working timetable (Schedule and same-day VSTP changes), CORPUS, Train Describer, SMART, Passenger Train Allocation and Consist	Network Rail	Where trains are and when they ran, the day’s timetable, location codes, train positions to the nearest signal section, and the coaches each operator has allocated to a train.	Open Government Licence v3.0. OGL statement.
Darwin real-time train information	Rail Delivery Group, via the Rail Data Marketplace. Darwin is National Rail Enquiries’ real-time system.	Live forecasts, platforms, cancellations and reasons for delay, coach formations and station messages.	Rail Data Marketplace data sharing agreement. Credit: Rail Delivery Group.
Darwin timetable reference files	Rail Delivery Group	Official station names and train operator names.	Open Government Licence v3.0. OGL statement. Credit: Rail Delivery Group.
Historical Service Performance (HSP)	Rail Delivery Group	Past punctuality, used to judge how reliable a train or connection is likely to be.	Rail Data Marketplace data sharing agreement. Credit: Rail Delivery Group.
Knowledgebase incidents	Rail Delivery Group, via the Rail Data Marketplace	Disruption and engineering-work notices shown on your journey and when you plan one.	Rail Data Marketplace data sharing agreement. Credit: Rail Delivery Group.
Timetable interchange data (DTD)	National Rail Enquiries, via the National Rail Data Portal	Minimum connection times at stations and walking links between nearby stations.	National Rail Data Portal licence v3.0. Credit: Powered by National Rail Enquiries.
BPLAN network geography	OpenTrainTimes Ltd	Names and map positions for junctions, depots and other non-station locations.	Rail Data Marketplace data sharing agreement. Credit: OpenTrainTimes Ltd.
London Underground	Transport for London	Tube lines, timetables, walking times between National Rail and Tube platforms, and live line status, from the TfL Unified API and TfL’s Journey Planner timetable files.	TfL Transport Data Service terms. Credit: the three TfL statements below.
NaPTAN	Department for Transport	Station locations, and station names when the Darwin names are not available.	Open Government Licence v3.0. OGL statement.
Estimates of station usage	Office of Rail and Road	Ranking busier stations first in station search.	Open Government Licence v3.0. OGL statement.
UK weather forecasts (UKV 2 km model)	Met Office, via AWS Open Data	Weather at and near the railway, used inside our forecasts of how long holds last and where disruption is likely. Not shown directly.	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Credit: the Met Office statement below.
Rainfall measured by rain gauges (England)	Environment Agency	Rain that has actually fallen near the railway, used inside our forecasts of delay and disruption. Not shown directly.	Open Government Licence v3.0. Credit: the Environment Agency statement below.
Track Model (track centre lines, mileposts)	Network Rail	Where every running line actually lies, to measure positions along the railway rather than in straight lines between stations. Not shown directly.	Open Government Licence v3.0. Credit: the Ordnance Survey statement below.
UK bank holidays	GOV.UK	Working out which Tube timetable runs on a public holiday.	Open Government Licence v3.0. OGL statement.

Required credits#

The licences for the data above require these statements.

Network Rail, Darwin timetable reference files, NaPTAN, ORR and GOV.UK

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Darwin real-time information, Darwin timetable reference files, HSP and Knowledgebase incidents

Data source: Rail Delivery Group.

Timetable interchange data (DTD)

BPLAN network geography

Data source: OpenTrainTimes Ltd.

Met Office

Contains Met Office data © British Crown copyright, the Met Office, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. We sample the UKV model's hourly forecasts at railway locations and summarise them for each signalling area.

Environment Agency

This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta).

Network Rail Track Model

Transport for London

An independent app#

RailPilot is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by Network Rail, National Rail Enquiries, the Rail Delivery Group, OpenTrainTimes Ltd, Transport for London, the Department for Transport, the Office of Rail and Road, the Met Office, the Environment Agency or any train operator. Use of their data does not mean they endorse RailPilot.