Current route to Darwin push port — RDM streaming vs NRDP?

[Globe]

Hi,

New here. I'm trying to work out the current state of play with Darwin push port access and I've gone round in circles a bit.

I've signed up on the Rail Data Marketplace. Before I write anything I'd like to be sure I'm pointing at something that actually works. The wiki's RDM feed list has the streaming Darwin product marked as broken, with a note saying to use the NRDP push port instead — but elsewhere it says NRDP was due to be retired at the start of this year. Both of those can't still be true.

So what's the actual way in for someone signing up now?

Separately, while I'm here — has anyone spent much time with the bus schedules in the push port? Curious how cleanly BR and BS separate in practice, and what happens with locations that haven't got a CRS code. Feels like the sort of thing that catches you out three weeks in if you don't ask up front.

Cheers

[David Wheatley]

The RDM push port *was* fundamentally broken for a long while, but was resolved by migrating to a single partition instead of the previous two partition setup where message ordering wasn't guaranteed.

You shouldn't have any issues using the XML feed from RDM today (and dare I say it's been more reliable than NRDP in my recent experience).

Personally, I wouldn't touch the non-XML versions with a barge pole though purely to reduce the amount of things that could go wrong.

David

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[Peter Hicks]

On Friday, 14 August 2026 at 20:58, 'David Wheatley' via A gathering place for the Open Rail Data community <openrail...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Personally, I wouldn't touch the non-XML versions with a barge pole though purely to reduce the amount of things that could go wrong.

The non-XML versions are a bit of theatre IMHO - with the XML version, you can (and I keep going on about this) generate a set of classes in your language of choice using XSDs, meaning that upgrading between versions will be less of a pain than if you tried to do everything by hand.

Peter