Live Train Departures

Q: What if the train is full?

If the train is showing as ‘full’, if you have a valid ticket to do so you may want to wait for the next service or travel via a different route. To help you plan, please check journey planners before you travel and continue to utilise our Live Departure Boards or online timetables to see if that service is also expected to be busy.

Q: My train doesn’t show this information, why is this?

If there’s no information shown for your journey, it means information isn’t available for that train. There may be occasions where it isn’t possible to match some services to those on previous weeks due to timetable changes or engineering work, for example, if the last two Saturdays had an altered time due to engineering work.

Check live departures and arrivals from any station and get updates on platform numbers, cancellations, delays, and view which trains may have more seat availability. Check the key below the departure boards for on-train facilities, platform information, and seat availability.

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See up-to-the-minute train running times and any delays or cancellations to your journey.

Check your journey

Check our live departures and arrivals board for up-to-the-minute info on how trains are running now, with details of platform numbers, cancellations, delays, and quieter trains.

Our live departure boards will show:

train timings, calling patterns and platform numbers for the next two hours
usual seat availability
length of the train
a short platform indicator
facilities onboard the train, where possible
which side of the train the doors will open

Check the key below the departure boards for on-train facilities, platform information, and seat availability.

To check journey times beyond the next 2 hours, please use our Journey Planner and for real time disruption updates, please see our service page.

Find a quieter train

We know it's important to see how busy our trains are likely to be when you plan your journey. We’ve developed a set of tools to enable us to share where we believe trains are going to be busy based on train loading data from the previous two weeks.

If you’re travelling today

If you're travelling within the next two hours and wish to find out how busy your train may be, simply check your journey on our Live Departure Boards and look for the colour coded symbols for seat availability.

If you’re planning ahead

If you’re planning your journey in advance, you can use our online timetables to see how busy trains usually are on each individual day of the week. So if you’re only travelling a couple of days each week, you can compare each day to help you find the quietest times to travel. The timetables do not include service alterations due to engineering work or on the day cancellations. If you are travelling in the evening, at weekends or on a Bank Holiday, please also check the journey planner for any changes to train times.

What if the train is full?

My train doesn’t show this information, why is this?

Delayed by 15 minutes or more?

We know how frustrating train delays can be, and we do our best to keep you moving. But if you’ve been delayed, you may be entitled to compensation.

Find out more about Delay Repay

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