List of railway services?

[metrail]

Hi

Does anyone know where I can gain a list of ALL UK railway services.
For example:
Cleethorpes to Liverpool,
Cleethorpes to Sheffield via Brigg,
Hull to Halifax,
London to Inverness etc
Sheffield to Scarborough via Hull

I have the timetables, just looking for a service list as trying to travel on every service... Would be good to have a list to tick them off and when any new ones start or cease.... Ok maybe sad but its fun
J

 

[zwk500]

Are you looking for frequencies or just any origin and destination pair that a TOC has a single headcode service between?

I don't think there'll be a collated list but the wikipedia pages per TOC are reasonably good for the regular stuff. However they can miss some of the odder services.

 

[SargeNpton]

Suggest that you go to this link on the Network Rail website and download the May 2023 timetable...

Electronic national rail timetable - Network Rail

The electronic National Rail Timetable (eNRT) is a long-term timetable for planners that covers services on the national rail network.

www.networkrail.co.uk

All current National Rail services are listed there.

 

[metrail]

Suggest that you go to this link on the Network Rail website and download the May 2023 timetable...

Electronic national rail timetable - Network Rail

The electronic National Rail Timetable (eNRT) is a long-term timetable for planners that covers services on the national rail network.

www.networkrail.co.uk

All current National Rail services are listed there.

I have the timetables, just looking for a service list as trying to travel on every service... Would be good to have a list to tick them off and when any new ones start or cease....

 

[spyinthesky]

This is one list you’ll probably have to create depending on how you want to achieve what your goals are ie do you travel the full length of each service or a partial journey?
There are a lot of services that start short/ end short, do you want to include these as well?

 

[The exile]

I have the timetables, just looking for a service list as trying to travel on every service... Would be good to have a list to tick them off and when any new ones start or cease....

Have fun with that - there will be loads of “one-offs” that run either as first or last trains or as peak time (ie expensive) extras. Straight off the top of my head, how about these oddities: Fratton - Bristol; Bath - Filton (avoiding Bristol TM); Severn Beach -Salisbury; Fishguard Harbour - Clarbeston Road

 

[Alex C.]

Have fun with that - there will be loads of “one-offs” that run either as first or last trains or as peak time (ie expensive) extras. Straight off the top of my head, how about these oddities: Fratton - Bristol; Bath - Filton (avoiding Bristol TM); Severn Beach -Salisbury; Fishguard Harbour - Clarbeston Road

Fratton - Bristol should be pretty easy, it's an hourly service!

 

[Haywain]

I have the timetables, just looking for a service list as trying to travel on every service... Would be good to have a list to tick them off and when any new ones start or cease....

What do you mean by every service? Do you mean each specific route that has a train service - as in each unique origin and destination pair?

 

[The exile]

Fratton - Bristol should be pretty easy, it's an hourly service!

All the others are Portsmouth - Bristol/Cardiff -only 1 starts at Fratton. I suppose it comes down to what the OP considers constitutes a “service”.

 

[swt_passenger]

This is one list you’ll probably have to create depending on how you want to achieve what your goals are ie do you travel the full length of each service or a partial journey?
There are a lot of services that start short/ end short, do you want to include these as well?

Fratton - Bristol should be pretty easy, it's an hourly service!

I think what’s being asked is whether or not the OP wants to treat the Fratton to Bristol working as a separate service, ie he wants or needs to travel on that train in addition to the full Portsmouth to Cardiff.

 

[gnolife]

Fratton - Bristol should be pretty easy, it's an hourly service!

The point that @The exile is making is that there's one a day that starts at Fratton

 

[The Quincunx]

(customary mention of Northern Ireland)

 

[metrail]

This is one list you’ll probably have to create depending on how you want to achieve what your goals are ie do you travel the full length of each service or a partial journey?
There are a lot of services that start short/ end short, do you want to include these as well?

Just started making this list..... Yep lots of partial services

Have fun with that - there will be loads of “one-offs” that run either as first or last trains or as peak time (ie expensive) extras. Straight off the top of my head, how about these oddities: Fratton - Bristol; Bath - Filton (avoiding Bristol TM); Severn Beach -Salisbury; Fishguard Harbour - Clarbeston Road

I think what’s being asked is whether or not the OP wants to treat the Fratton to Bristol working as a separate service, ie he wants or needs to travel on that train in addition to the full Portsmouth to Cardiff.

Each unique service

 

[gnolife]

never knew they had services just going from Georgemas Junction to Thurso

That's because there are none

 

[metrail]

That's because there are none

sorry misread the table

 

[spyinthesky]

Are you planning to do end to end on each service?

 

[Neo9320]

Maybe find a list of headcodes and routes and then pick out each unique service from them? Is that the kind of thing you’re after?

 

[33017]

Are you planning to do end to end on each service?

Good luck trying that - must amount to something north of half a million miles, never mind getting to each train. Would take the best part of a decade even if retired.

 

[The exile]

Especially since a lot of the “oddities” will be at the extremities of the day.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

Each unique service

An interesting aim. Without wanting to put too big a pin in the idea, are you sure that what you are trying to do is actually possible? I mean the number of different services is going to be huge. A quick ballpark guess says that there are about 200 route timetables in the traditional national rail timetable PDF. If you consider that, on average, each of those individual timetables probably shows at least 2-3 different regular routes, then you're on, maybe 500 different routes (probably more), even before you factor in the individual peak hour and first/last services that have unique stopping patterns: Include those and I'd bet you'll be well into the thousands of routes.

That's all well and good, except that about every 6 months (180 days) a new timetable comes out which will change a fair number of those routes - and I can't see it being practical to cover every route within that time.

 

[Haywain]

An interesting aim. Without wanting to put too big a pin in the idea, are you sure that what you are trying to do is actually possible? I mean the number of different services is going to be huge. A quick ballpark guess says that there are about 200 route timetables in the traditional national rail timetable PDF. If you consider that, on average, each of those individual timetables probably shows at least 2-3 different regular routes, then you're on, maybe 500 different routes (probably more), even before you factor in the individual peak hour and first/last services that have unique stopping patterns: Include those and I'd bet you'll be well into the thousands of routes.

I think you can easily double that number - if a service from London to Edinburgh is "unique service" then the opposite direction must be another unique service. Plus, off the top of my head, I reckon that table 26 alone must have at least a dozen unique services in each direction.

 

[gnolife]

I think you can easily double that number - if a service from London to Edinburgh is "unique service" then the opposite direction must be another unique service. Plus, off the top of my head, I reckon that table 26 alone must have at least a dozen unique services in each direction.

You also get the question of whether different stopping patterns are distinct services - is Edinburgh - Newcastle - King's X different from Edinburgh - Berwick - Newcastle - Durham - Darlington - York - King's X? You also get questions like is Glasgow Central - Motherwell - Wishaw - Carluke - Carstairs - Haymarket - Edinburgh different from Glasgow Central - Bellshill - Shotts - West Calder - Livingston South - Haymarket - Edinburgh?

 

[scrapy]

Good luck trying that - must amount to something north of half a million miles, never mind getting to each train. Would take the best part of a decade even if retired.

And it's likely in a decade, many services will have changed as there are a number of through services that are just there for operational convenience because the timetables connect for example in the last few years Southport has had varying destinations for its twice hourly Northern services, Manchester Airport, Manchester Oxford Rd, Manchester Victoria, Blackburn, Leeds, Stalybridge it also has short workings to/from Wigan. Will you start again at each timetable change?