Live train timetable — what is actually leaving your station

Today's departures by country

The boards work the same way everywhere: scheduled time, the train, where it is going and how it is actually running. What differs is what each operator publishes — live delays marks countries where the board carries the operator's real-time status; timetable means planned times only, for now.

A planned timetable and a live one are different things

A timetable in the ordinary sense is a plan — the times that are meant to apply for a whole year. It is what you need when booking a trip for next month. What it cannot tell you is what is happening on the tracks today at 15:40.

A live timetable is that same plan checked against reality. It shows the scheduled departure and, right beside it, whether the train will keep to it. The difference matters at one specific moment: when you are at the door with a bag, deciding whether to leave now or in twenty minutes.

What the board shows

A handful of columns per row, nothing to click through for.

Station pages for Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain and Finland are in English. Polish pages are in Polish, but they read easily — mostly times, numbers and station names; the Polish words above are all you need.

Travelling in Poland: station names and operators

Two things trip up visitors more than anything else, and both are easy once you know them.

Station suffixes tell you which station in the city. Główny or Główna means main — Kraków Główny is Kraków main station. Centralna means central, as in Warszawa Centralna. You will also meet Wschodnia (east), Zachodnia (west) and Miasto (city). Large cities have several stations, so the suffix is not decoration: Warszawa Centralna and Warszawa Wschodnia are different places, several kilometres apart.

Operators split roughly three ways. PKP Intercity runs most long-distance services between major cities. POLREGIO and a set of regional operators owned by the individual provinces cover local and regional routes. Suburban networks — SKM in Warsaw and in the Tricity area, among others — serve city regions. Our boards name the operator on every departure, which is usually enough to tell whether you are looking at a fast intercity service or an all-stops local.

How reliable are Polish trains?

Worth knowing before you plan a tight connection. Figures from the Polish Office of Rail Transport for the second quarter of 2026.

That last figure deserves attention. In the official statistics a train five minutes late is punctual — even though your connection has gone. That is exactly why our board does not sort trains into punctual and not, but reports the delay to the minute. Five minutes and twenty-five minutes are two different situations for a passenger, and the statistic hides one of them.

Our own archive shows the summer running harder than the quarterly averages suggest: between 2 July and 17 August 2026 the average daily worst delay rose from 4 hrs 41 min in July to 5 hrs 19 min in August. Full write-up in our Q2 punctuality report.

Check departures for your station in Poland

Each station page shows the next departures with live status, a summary of delays and the share of punctual services.

All Polish stations →  ·  Today's delay report →

Where the data comes from

Every board is built from the country's official open data. Where an operator does not yet publish live status in a form we can use, the board says so and shows planned times — it does not mark a train "on time" without evidence.

Looking for delays rather than departures? Poland has a daily delay report across all stations, and our guide to train delays covers what to do when your train is late.

The timetable in the Trainradar24 app

This page shows the board as it stood when you opened it. The app carries the full timetable — and tells you itself when something changes.

• Departure and arrival boards. For every station, both directions — scheduled time, direction, platform and live delay.
• An individual train's timetable. Every stop on the route with its time and the delay at each one, so you can see where the service lost time and whether it can make it up.
• Push notifications for delays and cancellations. Pick your train once and get told before you set off.
• A live train map. Where the train actually is right now, not just how many minutes it is behind.
• Departure reminders. So you do not have to watch the clock yourself.

Free, on Android and iOS, and no account needed — the map opens straight away.

Frequently asked questions