Faceabot Rail Belgium (SNCB/NMBS) MCP Server

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Faceabot Rail Belgium (SNCB/NMBS) is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Belgian trains for AI agents: live journeys, departures, delays, disruptions. Free, no key.

Uptime history 5 days of history

5 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

378 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Faceabot Rail Belgium (SNCB/NMBS) every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add rail-belgium --transport http https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/be-rail

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/be-rail

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.rail-belgium]
url = "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/be-rail"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rail-belgium": {
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/be-rail"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "rail-belgium": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/be-rail"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

station

be_find_station

Finds the exact Belgian station names matching a word (any language). Use when: a station name is ambiguous or misspelled. Example: {"query":"Bruxelles"}

be_station_departures

Next train departures from one Belgian station: time, destination, platform, live delay, cancellations. Use when: someone is at (or going to) a station and wants the next trains. Example: {"station":"Namur"}

train

be_train_connections

Train journeys between two Belgian stations (SNCB/NMBS): departure and arrival times, live delays, platforms, transfers, cancellations. Use when: someone needs to travel by train in Belgium (e.g. Brussels to Liège). Example: {"from":"Bruxelles-Central","to":"Liège-Guillemins"}

be_train_details

All stops of one Belgian train today with live delays and platforms. Use when: you know the train number (e.g. IC 2117, S1 1956) and want where it is or when it reaches a stop. Example: {"train":"IC 2117"}

rail

be_rail_disturbances

Current works and disruptions announced on the SNCB/NMBS network. Use when: before advising a train trip in Belgium, to warn about strikes, works or incidents. Example: {}

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/be-rail	streamable-http	answering	440 ms	0 min ago

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Faceabot Rail Belgium (SNCB/NMBS) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Faceabot Rail Belgium (SNCB/NMBS) do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: be_find_station, be_rail_disturbances, be_station_departures, be_train_connections, be_train_details. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is Faceabot Rail Belgium (SNCB/NMBS) mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around station and train. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is Faceabot Rail Belgium (SNCB/NMBS) working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 378 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Faceabot Rail Belgium (SNCB/NMBS)?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Faceabot Rail Belgium (SNCB/NMBS) need an API key?

No. Faceabot Rail Belgium (SNCB/NMBS) completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Faceabot Rail Belgium (SNCB/NMBS)?

It answers our handshake in 378 ms on average, which is faster than 39% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.