Checking train times from more than a week ago

[AlbertBeale]

I see that RTT only allows searching past records for the last week. Is there any other easy-to-use open access site where you can find what time trains actually ran a month or so ago? Thanks.

 

[gingerheid]

Home Page - Recent Train Times

 

[AlbertBeale]

Home Page - Recent Train Times

Brilliant - thanks. I see the site is especially for statistics of average lateness of particular routes and so on; but without too much fiddling it's possible to pin down a particular train from the recent-ish past.

 

[Baxenden Bank]

Charlwoodhouse

The Open Rail Data pages provide:

• Past and future timetable information.
• Real time train running details.
• Three years of historical train running data.

 

[splashoutradio]

Raildar.co.uk is also a good one, but it does require a free account to use. Definitely worth it, in my opinion, though.

 

[yorkie]

I see that RTT only allows searching past records for the last week. Is there any other easy-to-use open access site where you can find what time trains actually ran a month or so ago? Thanks.

Some retailers give you links for any trains which form part of your itinerary.

For example here is one I caught a month ago (booking made through Trainsplit):

Newcastle to Liverpool Lime St on 16/07/2022 | Train Timetable

Newcastle to Liverpool Lime Street on 16/07/2022 TransPennine Express service
Schedule History

• Train added to timetable on 29/01/2022
• Service details were changed on 11/03/2022
• Schedule was changed on 28/04/2022

Disruption
For some of its journey, This train has been cancelled because of a shortage of train crew.

	Station​	Platform​	Arrive​	Depart​	Arrive​	Depart​	Notes​
​	Scheduled​	Actual​	​
	Newcastle	4​		18:43		18:43
	Chester-Le-Street	1​	18:52	18:53	18:52	18:53
	Durham	1​	18:59	19:00	18:58	19:00
	Darlington	1​	19:16	19:17	19:16	19:18
	Northallerton	1​	19:27	19:28	19:29	19:30
	York	5​	19:47	19:49	20:05		18 mins late.
	Leeds	​	20:12	20:14	Cancelled​
	Dewsbury	​	20:25	20:27	Cancelled​
	Manchester Victoria	​	21:11	21:20	Cancelled​
	Newton-Le-Willows	​	21:37	21:41	Cancelled​
	Lea Green	​	21:46	21:47	Cancelled​
	Liverpool Lime Street	​	22:02		Cancelled​

* Reservations available * First class available * Trolley service
Headcode: 9M38, Service ID: TP515300, Train ID: L36697. Platforms are subject to last minute changes. Last schedule change 28/04/2022.

As you can see this includes the running information and also any changes made to the timetable (very handy these days as some train companies change their schedules without warning)

 

[scotrail170407]

You can use RTT to look for services that ran beyond a week before, as long as the schedule is the same (e.g not booked to take a different route, having different timings)

Realtime Trains | 1A81 1130 Edinburgh to Aberdeen | 19/08/2022

Real-time train running information for 1A81 1130 departure from Edinburgh to Aberdeen on 19/08/2022. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

Take this for example, you can see that in the link there’s a ‘2022-08-19’.
This obviously is the reverse order of the date the service ran.

So if you change 2022-08-19 to 2022-05-31, you can get the diagram for the same service as far back as May. Hope that makes sense

Realtime Trains | 1A81 1130 Edinburgh to Aberdeen | 31/05/2022

Real-time train running information for 1A81 1130 departure from Edinburgh to Aberdeen on 31/05/2022. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

 

[Watershed]

You can use RTT to look for services that ran beyond a week before, as long as the schedule is the same (e.g not booked to take a different route, having different timings)

Realtime Trains | 1A81 1130 Edinburgh to Aberdeen | 19/08/2022

Real-time train running information for 1A81 1130 departure from Edinburgh to Aberdeen on 19/08/2022. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

Take this for example, you can see that in the link there’s a ‘2022-08-19’.
This obviously is the reverse order of the date the service ran.

So if you change 2022-08-19 to 2022-05-31, you can get the diagram for the same service as far back as May. Hope that makes sense

Realtime Trains | 1A81 1130 Edinburgh to Aberdeen | 31/05/2022

Real-time train running information for 1A81 1130 departure from Edinburgh to Aberdeen on 31/05/2022. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

It's fine as long as the UID (the 6 character code beginning with a letter) hasn't changed.

Of course the same UID can refer to differently timed trains on different days so caution needs to be used when applying this approach.

 

[Birmingham]

Some retailers give you links for any trains which form part of your itinerary.

For example here is one I caught a month ago (booking made through Trainsplit):

Newcastle to Liverpool Lime St on 16/07/2022 | Train Timetable

As you can see this includes the running information and also any changes made to the timetable (very handy these days as some train companies change their schedules without warning)

You can get these from timetablehistory.com.