Browse the electronic National Routeing Guide

This website makes various parts of the electronic National Routeing Guide data publicly available in a (relatively) easy-to-browse format.

While the electronic information isn't intended to be used by passengers to determine journey validity, it can prove helpful when diagnosing and troubleshooting issues and oddities with online journey planners and for discovering strange routeing quirks.

Data is automatically refreshed daily around midnight UTC.

Available data

Easements

Browse textual and electronic easement data used to override standard permitted route rules for journey planners

Routes

View hidden electronic restrictions for route codes which are used by journey planners to determine permitted routes

Railcards

Browse railcards from the fares data and map the geography in which area-restricted railcards are valid.

Shortest route

Find the shortest route between two locations by rail.

Routeing maps

View and combine any routeing maps on a user-friendly interface.

Mapped routes

Find the permitted combinations of routeing maps for a journey from A to B without a thousand-page PDF.

Routeing points

Determine the valid routeing points for a journey between two stations, and easily see their mapped routes.

More data is coming soon…