Irish Rail is Ireland’s national railway operator, providing passenger and freight rail services. The Irish Rail Realtime API provides realtime station and train data including estimation of train times based on current train location. This is a REST API returning XML formatted data.
This information is an estimate of train times based on:
1. The current location of train services from Iarnród Éireann's central signalling system.
2. The scheduled journey times from areas under local signalling control.
3. Trains indicated as being late can make up time and arrive on time. Ensure you give yourself plenty of time to catch your train.
2. The scheduled journey times from areas under local signalling control.
3. Trains indicated as being late can make up time and arrive on time. Ensure you give yourself plenty of time to catch your train.
The following functions is used to retrieve all Rail Stations across Ierland:
Get All Stations usage: http://api.irishrail.ie/realtime/realtime.asmx/getAllStationsXML returns a list of all stations with StationDesc, StaionCode, StationId, StationAlias, StationLatitude and StationLongitude ordered by Latitude, Longitude
Get All Stations usage: http://api.irishrail.ie/realtime/realtime.asmx/getAllStationsXML returns a list of all stations with StationDesc, StaionCode, StationId, StationAlias, StationLatitude and StationLongitude ordered by Latitude, Longitude
The following functions is used to retrieve the Irish Rail based on the Station Name:
Get Station Data By Name usage: http://api.irishrail.ie/realtime/realtime.asmx/getStationDataByNameXML?StationDesc=Bayside returns all trains due to serve the named station in the next 90 minutes
Get Station Data By Name usage: http://api.irishrail.ie/realtime/realtime.asmx/getStationDataByNameXML?StationDesc=Bayside returns all trains due to serve the named station in the next 90 minutes
