Every railway line, station, tunnel and viaduct shown here is taken
directly from the open datasets below. The data is real and
sourced from established public bodies and the OpenStreetMap community.
Nothing on the map is invented or generated. Below is exactly where it comes
from and the software that renders it.
Data sources
The railway network geometry, names, tunnels, bridges and
line types are extracted from OpenStreetMap via the
Overpass API.
Station locations and names (including heritage-railway
stations) are taken from OpenStreetMap, the same source as the lines.
The live trains layer is derived from National Rail's
Darwin real-time train information (forecasts, formations and daily
timetables), published by the Rail Delivery Group via the Rail Data
Marketplace. Positions are estimated between timing points.
Contains data from National Rail / Rail Delivery Group.
Freight trains, signalling-based train positions and
measured speeds use Network Rail's open data feeds: train movement
reports (TRUST), train describer berth data (TD), the national
schedule, and the SMART and CORPUS reference datasets.
The optional "closed / former stations" layer is built from
Wikidata's record of UK railway stations no longer in service.
Wikidata, dedicated to the public domain (CC0).
Clicking a station offers a link to its Wikipedia article and
to its location on Google Maps. The article references come from
OpenStreetMap / Wikidata; the pages themselves are external.
Wikipedia content © its authors (CC BY-SA); Google Maps
© Google.
Train popups link to the service's full timetable, and
station popups to the live departure board, on Realtime Trains, an
excellent independent service that goes far deeper than this map does.
The pages are external and unaffiliated.
Realtime Trains © its operators.
Postcode-to-location lookups use the free, open-source
postcodes.io API, built on the ONS Postcode Directory.
Contains OS data © Crown copyright & database right;
Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright & database right; National
Statistics data © Crown copyright & database right
(Open Government Licence).
Software & services
The open-source library that renders the interactive map.
BSD-3-Clause licence.
The underlying street/terrain map imagery. The standard base
uses OpenStreetMap tiles; the “Hide map labels” option uses
CARTO’s label-free base map, also built on OpenStreetMap data.
© OpenStreetMap contributors; base map styling © CARTO.
Open Sans glyphs, used for the tunnel and viaduct labels.
Open Sans, Apache Licence 2.0.
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