Rail Radar grew beyond its first markets in the next 90 days

The current snapshot covers the rolling 90 days from 2026-04-25 to 2026-07-24. It is compared with the archived first report, which covered 2026-01-26 to 2026-04-28.

Within those limits, the direction is unambiguous. Visits rose from 22,459 to 69,665, a +210.2% increase. Unique visitors climbed even faster, from 2,561 to 13,076.

The average visitor opened 5.33 station views, down from 8.77. That is a healthy companion to the audience growth: the total is less dependent on a small group of people returning repeatedly, even though a few individual stations still show that behavior.

Departures remain the main job people use Rail Radar for. The current window contains 47,449 departure views and 22,216 arrival views. Both grew, but arrivals increased faster: +275.1% compared with +186.9% for departures.

Germany recorded 18,710 visits, moving from fifth place in the April report to first. Italy also grew strongly to 15,721 visits, while Switzerland reached 9,185. France and Poland appear for the first time and together contributed 4,667 visits.

The country ranking now has more depth. Ireland passed the United Kingdom, Denmark rose from 13 visits to more than 3,000, and Belgium and the Netherlands continued to build on their early March launches. Every country present in both reports recorded more visits in the current snapshot.

Düsseldorf Hbf is first by visits, but Zürich HB is first by unique visitors with 1,036. Zürich grew from 263 visits and 108 unique visitors in the April report to 4,597 visits and 1,036 unique visitors now. Cork Kent is another major newcomer to the top group, reaching 566 unique visitors.

Milano Centrale remains a durable anchor. Its visits grew from 845 to 3,791 and its unique audience more than doubled from 254 to 552. Bruxelles-Midi and Amsterdam Centraal also remain in both top-ten leaderboards, evidence that the international audience is compounding rather than simply rotating between markets.

The top ten stations now account for 37.3% of all visits, up from 15.6%. Most of that increase is explained by a few repeat-heavy stations. The unique-visitor list is therefore the better guide to broad audience demand, while the visit list exposes habitual or automated-looking usage that deserves separate monitoring.

Most providers stayed above 98% success while request volume expanded. RFI handled 15,941 requests at a 98.1% success rate, and the Swiss provider handled 9,116 at 99.8%. National Rail, Digitraffic, Trafiklab, and Rejseplanen recorded 100% success in the retained sample.

Latency remains the clearest operational gap. RFI's median response was 926 ms and its p95 was just over seven seconds. PLK has a lower request count but the slowest median at 1.79 seconds. By contrast, iRail and Irish Rail returned median responses in 58 ms and 52 ms respectively.

The growth question has changed. In April, the uncertainty was whether later markets could catch up once they had a full quarter. They did: Germany now leads, Ireland is in the top five, and France and Poland already contribute meaningful traffic. The next report should focus less on whether demand exists and more on its quality—how much is broad audience growth, how much is repeat use, and whether station discovery spreads beyond the current leaders.

This report also reinforces a data lesson for future quarters. Because the underlying retention is rolling, snapshots need to be exported on a fixed cadence if we want strictly adjacent windows. The April baseline made this comparison possible; the July snapshot now preserves the next one.

Read the April 28 baseline report.