Sncb

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SNCB is the national railway company of Belgium. It is an autonomous government company. It is responsible for the operation of the national railway system. It provides a GTFS and GTFS-RT feed. The MobilityTwin.Brussels platform enriches these by providing estimated positions of the trains based on the GTFS-RT feed.

Source

Endpoints

Vehicle position

/sncb/vehicle-position
GEOJSON APPLICATION/JSON

The estimated positions of the trains based on the GTFS-RT feed combined with the GTFS feed.

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2,436,409

Trips

/sncb/trips
MF-JSON APPLICATION/JSON

All the trips of SNCB for the specified period of time. This is an aggregate of the GeoJSON files returned by the vehicle-position endpoint of MobilityTwin.Brussels.

Availability depends on source data

Gtfs

/sncb/gtfs
GTFS APPLICATION/ZIP

The GTFS zip file of SNCB/NMBS

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2024-08-21 14:52:00
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2026-04-07 02:10:03
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500

GTFS (Parquet)

/sncb/gtfs-parquet
GTFS-PARQUET APPLICATION/ZIP

The GTFS feed of SNCB/NMBS converted to Apache Parquet format (zip archive of .parquet files). Parquet uses columnar storage with zstd compression and strong typing, resulting in 40-75% smaller files compared to the original GTFS zip. This format enables extremely efficient data transfer and near-zero RAM overhead when reading specific columns via Polars or DuckDB, making it ideal for analytical workloads and large-scale processing. Produced using gtfs-parquet.

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584

GTFS-RT

/sncb/gtfs-realtime
GTFS-RT APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM

The GTFS-RT binary file of SNCB/NMBS

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2,435,721

GTFS-RT Alerts

/sncb/gtfs-rt-alert
GTFS-RT APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM

Real-time service alerts for SNCB/NMBS trains (delays, cancellations, disruptions).

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2026-03-30 11:01:24
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2026-04-07 21:59:19
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2,069

GTFS-RT Trip updates

/sncb/gtfs-rt-trip-update
GTFS-RT APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM

Real-time trip updates for SNCB/NMBS trains including schedule deviations and cancellations.

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2026-03-30 11:00:46
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29,517