TransitRadar

Track your train

See where your train is, live — and share it with whoever's picking you up.

How it works

  1. Pick where you're travelling from and to, and roughly when.
  2. Choose your train from the times we find.
  3. You get a link. Send it to whoever is meeting you — they don't need an account, an app, or an API key.

What the person with the link sees

  • Where the train is now, on a map, with the route drawn along the track it is really taking.
  • The predicted arrival time, updated as the journey goes — not the booked time, the current one.
  • Every calling point, with stops already passed marked off and any re-timing shown against the original.
  • Connection warnings if the journey involves a change and the first train is running late enough to put it at risk.

The page refreshes itself while it is open, so nobody has to keep asking where you are. Links expire after the day of travel, and they aren't indexed by search engines — but anyone holding one can open it, so treat it as public.

Getting told, rather than checking

A tracking link is something someone has to look at. If you would rather be told, you can add an email address to a journey you are tracking and get a message when something actually changes — a platform alteration, the delay crossing fifteen, thirty or sixty minutes, and a final one when you arrive.

The rules are deliberately quiet. A train sitting at twenty minutes late for an hour is one email, not one every poll; a delay that is recovering does not generate anything, because nobody needs telling their train is now less late than it was; and there is a hard cap on how many messages one journey can ever send. You confirm the address before anything is sent, and every message carries a one-click unsubscribe.

If the journey ends badly

When a tracked journey arrives late enough to be worth a claim, the last message points you at the operator's own Delay Repay page. We tell you how late you were and who to claim from, and stop there — we deliberately do not tell you what you are owed.

That is not caution for its own sake. Every operator sets its own thresholds and bands, they are published only on each operator's own website, and there is no feed of them anywhere. A table of thresholds here would go stale silently, and a stale one would tell somebody they were entitled to money when they were not. Compensation commonly starts somewhere around fifteen to thirty minutes; the operator's page is the only authority on which.

Travelling by more than just train? Door-to-door plans across rail, bus and walking together. To watch a train without planning a journey, the live map shows every described service on the network.