TransitRadar — UK trains and buses

uk.co.transitradarPublished by transitradar.co.ukOfficial publisherv1.4.0Updated Oct 24, 2026

Live UK rail boards, journey planning, train history, units, lifts, disruptions, punctuality.

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Overview

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A remote MCP server giving assistants live UK rail and bus data: journey planning, departure boards, delays, disruptions, station details and punctuality.

What you can do
Plan journeys: rail-only or door-to-door combining trains, buses and walks, plus direct destinations from a station without changing trains. Look up trains: search the timetable, get full calling-point details, recent running history, and which service a numbered unit is working. Check live boards: departures and arrivals at a station, next buses from a stop, and trains currently late or cancelled. Review disruptions: current and planned rail incidents and engineering work, and bus diversions, closed stops and roadworks. Check performance and stations: daily punctuality figures, bus punctuality estimates, station facilities, step-free access and lift status.
When to use it
Useful when someone asks about travelling by train or bus in Great Britain: planning a route, checking whether a train is running late, finding the next departure, or understanding a disruption. Also suited to questions about station facilities, accessibility and recent punctuality.
Requirements
A remote endpoint at transitradar.co.uk over streamable HTTP; no package, account, API key or environment variable is declared. Network access to the endpoint is needed.
Before you install
Mostly read-only timetable and live-running data, but some tools return Delay Repay claim links, so check any claim or payment step yourself. Timetable-based plans are not live running, and bus punctuality figures are estimates from sampled urban areas. Data comes from third-party sources such as National Rail and the Bus Open Data Service.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open TransitRadar — UK trains and buses in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/uk.co.transitradar%2Ftransitradar/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transitradar-uk-trains-and-buses": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://transitradar.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

16

plan_journey

Plan a rail journey

Plan a GB rail journey between two stations from the timetable, including changes: the next few ways to get there after a time, each with departure, arrival, number of changes and every train to catch with where to board and alight. This is the timetable, not live running; for live times on a direct train use station_departures with 'to', and for one train's progress use get_train with its planning ID.

Parameterstorequireddatefromrequiredtimeresults

bus_performance

How buses are running today

Today's bus punctuality estimate for Great Britain, nationally and by operator: journeys counted, the share on time, early and late, and the average delay. Each bus journey is counted once, judged on arrival near its last stop, and only in the roughly 25 urban areas we sample, so it is an ESTIMATE of how buses are running, not an official figure. 'On time' follows the GB bus standard: up to 1 minute early or 5 minutes 59 late; running early counts against it.

Parameterslimit

late_trains

Trains late or cancelled now

GB passenger trains running late right now, and trains booked to be running now that are cancelled (wholly or part of the way). Each train has its route, how late it is, where it last reported, where it calls next, the reason Darwin gives, and a Delay Repay link once a claim is worth making. Optionally filter by operator (name or two-letter code) or set the lateness threshold.

ParameterslimitminLateoperatorName

disruptions

Rail disruptions

Current GB rail incidents and planned engineering work from National Rail's KnowledgeBase: what is affected, the operators, the dates and a link to National Rail's notice. Optionally filter by operator (name or two-letter code) or by any text, such as a station, line or reason.

ParameterstextlimitoperatorName

train_history

How a train has run recently

How one timetabled train has actually run over recent days, by its planning ID (from find_train, station_departures or get_train): each day's delay at its final destination, cancellations and any reason given, plus the share on time. Delay is measured where the train ends, not at any station along the way. History follows the planning ID, which changes when the timetable changes, so a newly timetabled train has little history; days the train did not run are simply absent.

ParametersdaysplanningIdrequired

get_train

Train details and live running

Full details of one train by its planning ID (UID, e.g. 'C04207'): every public calling point with booked, expected and actual times, platforms and per-stop cancellations, plus — for today's trains — where it was last reported and how late. A cancellation can apply to only some stops. 'lastReport' is the last place signalling or movement data placed the train, not a GPS position. Reasons are National Rail's own words.

ParametersdateplanningIdrequired

bus_stop_departures

Next buses from a stop

Next buses from a bus stop anywhere in Great Britain. Takes a stop name with its town or area; many stops share a name across the country, so 'Trafalgar Square' alone can land in Greater Manchester while 'Trafalgar Square London' finds Charing Cross. A stop letter can follow, e.g. 'Trafalgar Square London stop X'. A stop's ATCO/NaPTAN code also works. Live predictions in London (TfL); elsewhere the timetable, so a 'scheduled' time is not a live estimate. With 'to', only buses that go on to that stop are listed, each with its scheduled time there: the answer to 'next bus from Trafalgar Square to Brixton Station'. Those boards always come from the timetable, with the live bus and its delay where it can be identified. Other matching stops are returned alongside.

Parameterstostoprequired

station_info

Station details and lift status

Details of a GB railway station: address, managing operator, facilities, step-free access, industry codes (CRS, TIPLOC, STANOX, NLC) and, where Network Rail publishes it, the live status of each public lift. Lift status is 'In service', 'Out of service' or 'Data not available'; the last means the status is not known, and Network Rail's wording for it advises checking before travel. A station with no lifts listed is not necessarily a station without lifts; it may not report live status yet.

Parametersstationrequired

station_departures

Live departures or arrivals

Live departure or arrival board for a GB railway station, from National Rail's Darwin feed: booked time, expected time, actual time once reported, platform, operator and any delay or cancellation reason. With 'to', only trains that also call at that station are listed, each with its booked, expected and actual time there: the live answer to 'next train from Bolton to Darwen'. On an arrivals board, 'to' is where the train came from. An expected time equal to the booked one means no revision has been published, which usually means running to plan. A missing expected time is not a statement that the train is on time. Reasons are National Rail's own wording.

ParameterstorowstypestationrequiredincludeNonPassenger

daily_performance

How the railway did on a day

TransitRadar's own record of one completed day on GB passenger rail: how many trains ran, how many were cancelled, the share of recorded arrivals within five minutes at their destination, the same share counting each cancellation as a failure, per-operator figures, and the commonest delay and cancellation reasons. Measured at the destination, so it is stricter than, and not comparable with, the industry's published PPM. Available from 2026-08-06 up to yesterday; where fewer than half of arrivals were recorded, no punctuality figure is given.

Parametersdaterequiredoperators

bus_disruptions

Bus disruptions

Current and planned bus disruptions in Great Britain from the Bus Open Data Service (SIRI-SX): diversions, closed stops, roadworks and events, each with the operators and lines affected and the stops named. Filter by operator code (NOC) or by a word matched against the text, e.g. a town, road or line. Rail incidents are the separate 'disruptions' tool.

ParameterslimitqueryoperatorCode

find_train

Find a train

Search the GB rail timetable for specific trains. The query combines terms: an operator and a headcode ('LNER 1S09', 'EMR 1H26'), a time and a station ('12:19 from Corby' — matched within about ten minutes either side), two stations ('Corby to St Pancras', which also finds trains calling at both), or a planning ID / UID ('C12345', or its first few characters). A headcode alone is not unique: the same four characters run in several parts of the country at once, so results for one headcode can be different trains, told apart by origin and destination. Returns planning IDs to pass to get_train.

Parametersdatequeryrequired

plan_door_to_door

Plan a journey by train and bus

Plan a GB journey that may combine trains, buses and short walks, between railway stations, bus stops or coordinates, from the timetables. Each place can be a station name or CRS code, a bus stop with its town (e.g. 'Briggate Leeds'), a stop code, or 'lat,lon'. Returns the next few ways after a time with every leg: mode, line or train, where to board and alight, and times. Timetabled, not live. For rail only, plan_journey is simpler.

Parameterstorequireddatefromrequiredtimeresults

direct_destinations

Where can I go without changing

Every station reachable from a GB railway station WITHOUT CHANGING TRAINS on a date, after a time, each with the train that gets there soonest (a later but faster train beats an earlier slow one), sorted by arrival. Includes places reached by staying aboard a train that divides or joins another en route: those rows carry an 'association' naming where, and the passenger must be in the right portion. Timetabled times, not live. Use plan_journey when a change of train is acceptable or a destination is already known.

ParametersdatefromrequiredtimelimitmaxMinutes

find_unit

Where is a train unit

Look up a GB passenger train unit or carriage by the five- or six-digit number painted on it (e.g. '360107'): which service it is working now, the other services it is booked to work today, and the last calling point it was reported at. This comes from the operator's rolling-stock allocation, which is a plan and may be wrong during disruption. The position is the last calling point reported, not a live GPS fix — the train is somewhere beyond it.

Parametersdatenumberrequired

search_stations

Search stations

Find GB railway stations by name or code. Returns each station's three-letter CRS code (e.g. KGX), its TIPLOC and whether it has step-free access. The CRS code is what the other station tools accept.

ParametersqueryrequiredincludeJunctions

Version history

4
  1. v1.4.0LatestOct 22, 2026
  2. v1.3.0Oct 15, 2026
  3. v1.1.0Oct 4, 2026
  4. v1.0.0Sep 27, 2026

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