National Rail

National Rail Enquiries

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About this app

Stay alert with the National Rail app, Great Britain’s number 1 destination for rail travel information. Get live train times, details of station facilities, and journey planning and fare information, all in one place.

Plan journeys across Great Britain’s train network with our comprehensive journey planner, find the best fares, and receive real-time travel updates, personalised to your journey, allowing you to quickly and easily check timetables changes, set up travel alerts, and find out about journey disruption.

Version 10.3.0 Features:

NEW Ad-free: Upgrade to the ad-free version of the National Rail app.

Click to buy tickets: We link you directly to the train operator so you can find the best fare for your journey. No booking or credit card fees.

Journey Planner: Plan your journeys with up-to-the-minute travel information and track the progress of trains, as well as being alerted to disruptions on the line along your route.

Live Train Times: View real-time departure and arrival boards for any station served by National Rail in Great Britain.

Progress Tracking: Find out exactly where a train is along a route, from start to end and every station in between.

Real Time Alerts: Get timetable disruption alerts sent straight to your device as they happen.

London Underground and DLR: Plan your journey to or from London Zone 1 Underground and DLR stations.

Ratings and reviews

Terrible. The old app was great. I could save my favourite journeys, see my whole journey on one screen. It had genuinely useful features. This is now just a link to the web page. I have to input my journey every time I open it, scroll through several screens. It's a waste of time. This appears to be a cost cutting exercise with no regard for customer service.

The old app did roughly what you needed it to do, including, with a bit of mucking about, things like working out if the delayed train you are on is likely to make the planned (or any) connection or would it be better to change tactics. The new version seems almost entirely unable to do anything you need, except the absolutely most basic query. But it can give you unwanted resets, surprise timeouts, freezes, and irrelevant pages in answer to your query. Other than that, a terrific upgrade.

Poorest public transport app possible. You'd have to work very hard to create something as bad as this. Not sure what National Rail's motivation is? Previous app experience wasn't ideal, but you were able to find what you wanted in a minimalistic UI. The recent "update" is a complete waste of everyone's time and money. Seems to be just a webview of the general website, wastes space, forces yet more ads on you and can't even keep track of previous searches. Would give 0 stars if possible.

What's new

Allows ad-free upgrade for new users, and restores ad-free option for existing customers