# Big Train – Irish Rail & DART — Live DART times & delays

> Live DART times & delays (iPhone/iPad app by Adam Keegan.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/big-train-irish-rail-and-dart/id6754186346 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Adam Keegan](https://appshunter.io/developer/1714264560)
- Category: Navigation, Travel
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 89 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2025-11-14
- Data updated: 2026-07-02
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/big-train-irish-rail-and-dart/id6754186346/reviews.md

## What is Big Train?

No ads, no in-app purchases, and no data collection. Just fast, real-time train information.

Check live Irish Rail departures, track delays, and save your favourite stations and journeys in seconds.

Open any station to see what’s due, what’s late, and what’s next. Save your go-to stations, create schedules for regular trips, and keep your next train close with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets.

Saved schedules can now include a destination station, so widgets can show trains for the journey you actually want, not just every train in one direction. Transfer journeys are supported too, so trips that need a change can still appear clearly in the app and widgets.

Use the live map to see where trains are right now across the network. Tap a train to see what it is, or tap a station to open the departures board.

If you’re offline, or live data isn’t available, Big Train switches to an Offline Timetable view so you still see scheduled departures. It automatically returns to live updates when real-time data comes back.

Apple Watch and iPad are fully supported. You can also send your saved iPhone schedule to Apple Watch from the More tab.

Use Spotlight to search a station name and open it instantly, and use Siri/Shortcuts for quick actions like Next Train, Live Departures, and service alerts.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.2.0 — 2026-06-11

This update improves schedules, widgets, transfers, and Apple Watch support.

Saved schedules now support destination stations, so journeys like Connolly to Howth can load automatically on app start and show correctly in widgets.

Transfer journeys are now supported in the Current tab and widgets, so routes like Howth to Malahide can be shown even when a change is required.

You can now manually sync your iPhone schedule to your Apple Watch from the More tab.

Transfer logic has also been improved to choose more sensible transfer stops, alongside smaller UI improvements and bug fixes.

### 2.0.2 — 2026-05-20

Service Alerts fixed and working again, this was due to Irish Rail disabling their RSS feeds without notice.

Minor UI Updates

### 2.0.1 — 2026-03-17

Added delayed badge back.

Opening a Journey will scroll to the current location of the train.

Added updated screenshots for iPad and Watch

### 2.0.0 — 2026-03-05

UI complete Redesign, cleaner, clearer and ease of use.

Upcoming Line works, see upcoming and current line works.

Widgets on lockscreen and homescreen work a lot better now.

tons and tons of bug fixes and optimisations.

### 1.4.0 — 2025-12-15

Offline timetable fallback: If you’re offline (or the Irish Rail feed comes back empty), the train board can switch into a GTFS Offline Timetable mode. There’s a banner toggle, and it’ll automatically poll and flip back to live data once it returns.

Map view clarity: Stations and trains now cluster separately, with filters and map style controls. You can quickly re-centre, and for selected stops you can get walking directions plus Look Around where available.

Journey detail polish: Faster loading, live movement refresh, and smoother stop lists with the new unified journey pipeline.

Siri + Shortcuts: More App Intents including Next Train, Open Station, Nearest/Last/Favourite station board, Set Home, and Train Home (with better phrase coverage).

Stability: Bug fixes and performance tuning across the train board, service alerts, and shared UI.

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-02.*