About the National Rail Feeds
The Rail Delivery Group through National Rail Enquiries provide a number of data feeds for passenger-facing information systems across the railway network. The developers page on the NRE website is the canonical set of information pages for the data feeds provided. They also provide a summary of all the feeds they supply in the NRE feeds developer pack.
RDG used to be known as ATOC, a number of their data feeds can be also found through the Atoc Industry Data portal.
Outages and faults with the service should be reported to dsg_darwind3.support@caci.co.uk. For more general usage support, use the openraildata-talk forum.
Terms and Conditions
- Developer Terms & Conditions (version 3)
- Developer Guidelines (version 05.01)
- Usage Charging Document (version 04-01)
- Attribution of NRE as the data source should be in line with the Brand Guidelines & Logos
Freely available Feeds/APIs
| Feed | Type | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Darwin Webservice (Public) | SOAP API | Register |
| Darwin Webservice (Staff) | SOAP API | Register |
| Darwin Push Port | Feed | Register |
| Historical Service Performance | REST API | Register |
| KnowledgeBase | Feed | Register |
| DTD | Feed | Register |
| Locations (Proof of Concept) | REST API | Information |
Licensed Feeds
NRE also provide a number of APIs from the Online Journey Planner service. Whilst anyone can request access to these APIs, due to contractual constraints NRE are currently unable to offer them without cost (and an associated license). More information can be found on the NRE site.
| Feed | Type | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| RTJP web service | SOAP API | NRE |
| Disruptions web service | SOAP API | NRE |
| (What can I do with) My Ticket web service | JSON API | NRE |
| National Rail Enquiries Data Feeds | |
|---|---|
| Data Feeds | About the Feeds • Darwin Webservice (Public) • Darwin Webservice (Staff) • Historical Service Performance • Push Port • KnowledgeBase • DTD • Locations (PoC) • Real Time Journey Planner |
| LDB API | About |
| LDB-SV API | About |
| HSP | About |
| DTD | About • Fares • Timetable |
| Push Port | About • XML Schemas • Schedules • Associations • Train Status • Station Messages • Alarms • Train Order • Train Alerts • Formations • Formation loading |