OpenTrainTimes Outage History

Over the past weeks, we have been having a chronic issue with bots (likely AI bots) scraping content on our website at a rate far exceeding even our regular peak traffic levels. This results in occasional 404 errors when viewing pages on the site. We are working to limit this traffic and have put additional mitigations in place.

We are now receiving TRUST messages, although any data produced between 1712 and 1927 has not been received. We will monitor for the next hour before closing this incident.

We are now receiving real-time data, although there is a gap of several minutes between 1801 and 1807 where there is limited data. Maps will therefore be showing incorrect data until a train passes through each berth.

One of our servers was rebooted without warning at 0938 this morning, and services did not restart as normal. We have manually restarted services on this server, and it is currently processing through a backlog of data. Maps may be showing incorrect information for the next hour.

We have identified the problem and put in place a fix. We will continue to monitor.rf

From 1640 until approximately 1715, both of our map servers were not serving up new map data due to a common fault in the code running on each server. We have not seen this error before, but will put in place a software fix in a few days to ensure this does not happen again. Maps are now working again, and no data has been lost.