About the National Rail Feeds: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 16:17, 3 June 2025

The Rail Delivery Group (formerly known as Association of Train Operating Companies, or simply ATOC) under their National Rail brand provide a number of data feeds for passenger-facing information systems across the railway network. The developers page on the NRE website provides information for the data feeds provided, some of which are free and some of which are chargeable. They also provide a summary of feeds they supply in the Feeds developer pack

Outages and faults with RDG's data feeds should be reported to the email addresses in the below table; these contacts should not be used for general inquiries or support. For general usage support on National Rail (and other open rail data), 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	Reporting faults
Darwin Webservice (Public)	JSON API	RDM product
Darwin Webservice (Staff)	JSON API	RDM product
Darwin Push Port	Pub/Sub stream (JSON/XML), Files (XML)	Real-time, Timetable and reference data
Historical Service Performance	JSON API	RDM product
KnowledgeBase	XML Feed	Register	dsg_darwind3.support@caci.co.uk
DTD	Flat file feeds	Register	dsg_darwind3.support@caci.co.uk

Retirement of the NRDP

The Rail Delivery Group plans to retire the National Rail Data Portal in early 2026. Most National Rail feeds are now available via the Rail Data Marketplace, in some cases in different formats.

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 OJP feeds page on NRE's site.

Feed	Type	Availability
RTJP web service	SOAP API	Formal license, charged
Disruptions web service	JSON API	Formal license, free of charge
(What can I do with) My Ticket web service	JSON API	Formal license, charged

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

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 == Retirement of the NRDP ==
 The Rail Delivery Group plans to retire the [[National Rail Data Portal]] in early 2026. Most National Rail feeds are now available via the [[Rail Data Marketplace]], in some cases in different formats.
-==Registering for OpenLDBSV/Darwin Staff Webservice==
-OpenLDBSVWS has a [http://openldbsv.nationalrail.co.uk/ web registration process], this is currently (May 2023) broken, and cannot send registration verification emails. In the meantime, until the automatic registration process is fixed, RDG have established a procedure for manually creating accounts for the service. To request an account, send a completed [https://assets.nationalrail.co.uk/e8xgegruud3g/3naKK7Qy2P4Rs6VYvyCCxJ/e54ddd40e85b5e2c5acf85702da8f554/Licence-Request-Form.pdf licence request form] to [mailto:nationalraildatafeeds@raildeliverygroup.com nationalraildatafeeds@raildeliverygroup.com], RDG staff will send you a license to sign, and then can provide you with account credentials.
-Note that the licence request form is generic, and is oriented more towards commercial data feeds users, but the eligibility criteria and license conditions for OpenLDBSV for open data feeds users remain the same as before.
 ==Licensed Feeds==