Accessible UK Train Timetables

From to

LeavingArrivingFirst trainLast train on (try text like “next Monday”)

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Return journey (optional)

LeavingArrivingFirst trainLast train on (or “next Friday”)

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Options

Travel via Avoid

Search only sleeper trains

Try and show only direct trains

Include slower, overtaken trains

Things of interest

• For an iPhone-ish interface, try i.traintimes.org.uk (uses IUI, so really only for iPhone, other browsers at your own risk). For a slightly simpler heading, an even more slimmed down version is at m.traintimes.org.uk.
• A vaguely live map of trains, showing approximate positions of trains on approach to a particular station (requires JavaScript).
• Bookmarkable timetable URLs: for example, http://traintimes.org.uk /manchester /edinburgh will give you the next trains from Manchester to Edinburgh. Adding a time, like http://traintimes.org.uk /cardiff /birmingham /8:00, gives you the timetable starting from there.

  A full return journey is of the form http://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, http://traintimes.org.uk /london /glasgow /first /tomorrow or http://traintimes.org.uk /sheffield /liverpool /11:00a.

  You can put “/fares” at the end of any bookmarkable URL to go directly to the fares page for that journey. This will be slower than the non-fares lookup. For example http://traintimes.org.uk/cardiff/bristol/fares.

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

  “/overtake=1” at the end of a bookmarkable URL will also include overtaken trains in the results, e.g. http://traintimes.org.uk /brighton /clj /01:00a /saturday /overtake=1.

• Ian Scott has made a Firefox bookmarklet.

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, move things around, and improve things a bit. Many thanks to National Rail Enquiries for allowing this site to persist.

Disclaimer: This site is not affiliated, associated, or in any other way connected officially with the National Rail Enquiries site.

— Matthew