About CheckMyTrain

The homepage is the starting point for most journeys through the site. It is designed to get you into the right tool quickly rather than make you search through menus first.

• Search for a journey between two stations.
• Open a live station board directly from a CRS or station lookup.
• Use pinned regular journeys for repeat searches.
• Jump straight to wider disruption and network tools.

If you regularly commute between the same stations, the homepage is the quickest place to open that search again without rebuilding it each time.

Live departure boards are for checking what is happening at a station right now. They show departures and arrivals with operational detail such as expected times, platforms, cancellations, short workings and other live changes.

• Check live departures or arrivals from a station.
• See expected times, platform changes and cancellations.
• Open the full service detail for an individual train.
• Track one specific service if you want to keep following it.

If you are standing on a platform and want to know whether a train is now late, cancelled or short of its booked destination, the live board is the right view.

Service Detail is the deeper view for one individual train. This example shows N46498 from Manchester Victoria to York, opened from the live Leeds board. It brings the route, formation, delay reason, calling points and service actions together in one place.

• See the train’s full route and current delay against each stop.
• Review formation, class, platform and disruption reason in one panel.
• Use Get alerts to save that train and choose service-specific alert settings.
• Use Save journey to add the journey to your history and mileage log.
• Switch between simple and detailed journey views.

If a board tells you a train is delayed and you need the full picture, Service Detail is where you inspect the route in context and decide whether to track it, save it, or use it for a later delay claim.

When a route distance is available on the service detail panel, you can click it to open the route-distance map. This gives a visual view of how the train runs across the network rather than only showing the calling-point list.

• Open the mapped route directly from the distance chip in service detail.
• See the route drawn between the origin and destination.
• Use it to understand how far a service is travelling and which corridor it uses.

If you are checking a longer service and want to understand the overall route rather than only the stops, the distance map gives the geographical context.

Journey Search is for service lookups between two stations across a date and time range. It is intended both for planning and for checking what ran on a given day.

• Search for direct services between stations.
• Use date and time filters to narrow the result set.
• Review live, planned and past services in one place.
• Open service detail to inspect one train in full.

If you need to confirm which trains left after 17:00 between two stations yesterday, Journey Search is usually the right place to start.

The station information page is the reference view for a station itself rather than the trains currently serving it. It focuses on facilities, access and operational context for the location.

• Check address, facilities and accessibility information.
• Review ticket office opening hours.
• See car parking, cycle storage and other practical details where available.
• Jump straight back to the live board for the same station.

If you need to know whether a station has step-free access, staffed ticket facilities or storage before travelling, the station information page is the right view.

Network Status gives a wider view of conditions across operators and routes. It is intended for checking system-level disruption rather than one individual train.

• Review how the network is performing today or on another date.
• Filter the view to one operator.
• See which routes, hours or operators are most affected.
• Compare current conditions with recent days.

If you want to know whether disruption is isolated to one route or part of a wider operator problem, Network Status gives the broader context.

Delay Repay Check is a practical tool for estimating whether a delayed or cancelled journey may qualify for compensation. It is intended to help you review likely eligibility before you claim with the operator.

• Search for the affected journey by route, date and departure time.
• Select the disrupted service from matching results.
• Estimate compensation based on ticket type and delay length.
• Open the operator’s claim path where available.

If a train arrived late or was cancelled and you want a fast check on whether the delay is likely to meet the operator’s threshold, this is the right section.

Tracking Map shows the stations you have recorded against your account on a national map. It is intended as a visual way to review where you have been rather than a log of individual trains.

• See visited stations plotted on a map.
• Review how your station coverage is building up over time.
• Use it as a visual companion to your saved journey history.

If you want a quick visual sense of where you have travelled around the network, the tracking map gives that wider picture at a glance.

Journey History is your recorded travel log. It is designed for keeping track of journeys you have taken and the mileage you have built up over time. Journeys can be added directly from a service-detail panel with Save journey.

• Review journeys you have added from service detail pages.
• See totals for lifetime, yearly, monthly and recent travel.
• Remove entries you no longer want to keep.

If you want a simple rail travel log for personal records or mileage tracking, this section keeps those journeys together.