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mcp-national-rail

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github.com/lucygoodchildMaps & Travel7Updated 73w ago
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About mcp-national-rail

mcp-national-rail is an MCP server for AI agents to retrieve National Rail train information through the Realtime Trains API. It provides tools for live and date-specific arrival and departure queries.

Key features

  1. 01Retrieve live train departures
  2. 02Retrieve live train arrivals
  3. 03Query departures by date
  4. 04Query arrivals by date

Use cases

  1. 01Checking live National Rail departures
  2. 02Looking up live arriving trains
  3. 03Finding arrivals and departures for a date

MCP support

It exposes four train-query tools to MCP clients, covering live and date-specific departures and arrivals, using the Realtime Trains API.

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

mcp.json · Universal config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "national-rail": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@smithery/cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Run commandnpx -y @smithery/cli

Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.

Packages
npm@smithery/cli

Tools

No tool list yet

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Details

From the project README

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mcp-national-rail

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to retrieve train schedules from National Rail.

Overview

This project implements a server using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allows AI agents to retrieve train information on National Rail trains using the Realtime Trains API.

It provides tools for:

  • get_live_departures
  • get_live_arrivals
  • get_departures_by_date
  • get_arrivals_by_date

Installation

Real Time Trains API account can be created from here: https://api.rtt.io/

You will need to note down your API Auth credentials

Installing via Smithery

To install mcp-national-rail for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @lucygoodchild/mcp-national-rail --client claude
Manual Installation for Claude Desktop
Prerequisites
  • Node.js
Setup
  1. Clone this repository
  2. Install dependencies
npm install
  1. Build and start the project
npm run build
npm run start
  1. Add the following to your MCP client configuration (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-national-rail": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/mcp-national-rail/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "RTT_API_USERNAME": "your_rtt_api_username",
        "RTT_API_PASSWORD": "your_rtt_api_password"
      }
    }
  }
}

Make sure to replace "/path/to/mcp-national-rail/dist/index.js" with the actual path and add your RTT API username and password which can be created from here: https://api.rtt.io/

  1. Restart Claude
Development
  • Create .env file based on the example file
RTT_API_USERNAME=your_rtt_api_username
RTT_API_PASSWORD=your_rtt_api_password

Run the inspector with the following command:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector node dist/index.js

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