nationalrail.co.uk
National Rail
Who runs National Rail, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest rail travel information alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- thetrainline.com
Measured from National Rail’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit National Rail01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs National Rail
National Rail nationalrail.co.uk
The gateway to Britain's national rail network. The portal to rail travel, including train times, information, fares enquiries, promotions and tickets
Wikidata: brand name for the passenger rail services operated in Great Britain
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What National Rail tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
3 of the 12 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to National Rail
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to National Rail, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to National Rail match.
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Home - ÖBB
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Very close - 04
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Билеты на жд поезда и автобусы, расписание электричек, заказ авиабилетов, бронирование отелей и горящих туров, справочная информация по вокзалам РЖД, аэропортам и курортам в 2026 году.
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JSC « O’zbekiston temir yo’llari » | O`zbekiston temir yo`llari
Joint-stock company«O'zbekiston temir yo'llari» was formed on November 7, 1994 on the basis of the former Central Asian railroad located in the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The total developed length of the main roads of the company makes about 3645 kilometers today. More than 54, 7 thousand people work in the company. Annual goods turnover of the company makes about 90% of total goods turnover of all means of transport.
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online travel agency
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Information and ticket booking service for travelling around Asia. Find schedules and fares, book flights, trains, buses and ferries.
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Trip.com Official Site | Travel Deals and Promotions
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British Airways - Information Page
flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles National Rail’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones National Rail uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what National Rail adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 87 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to National Rail’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577a8f43a9362df-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX nationalrail-co-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 mx a include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.mtaroutes.…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=H35NS1p0XVhse4xQcRmr6jDjsVEuKUcTXoyJ9vQig2A
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=oy98ldbs2a8gmjh8evrq1prpy9intc
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 mx a include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.mtaroutes.…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Atlassian · not on nationalrail.co.uk 8/20
- Apple Business · not on nationalrail.co.uk 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on nationalrail.co.uk 6/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on nationalrail.co.uk 5/20
- Meta Business Suite 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on nationalrail.co.uk 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on nationalrail.co.uk 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on nationalrail.co.uk 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on nationalrail.co.uk 4/20
- Google Tag Manager 4/20
- Miro · not on nationalrail.co.uk 4/20
- OneTrust · not on nationalrail.co.uk 4/20
- OpenAI · not on nationalrail.co.uk 4/20