Faceabot Rail Ireland (Irish Rail, DART) MCP Server

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Faceabot Rail Ireland (Irish Rail, DART) is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Irish trains and DART: live direct trains in the next 90 minutes, departures. 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

433 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 Ireland (Irish Rail, DART) 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-ireland --transport http https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/ie-rail

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

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

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rail-ireland": {
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/ie-rail"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

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

Available tools 3

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

station

ie_find_station

Finds Irish Rail stations (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland lines served by Irish Rail) matching a word, with their codes. Use when: a station name is ambiguous or misspelled. Example: {"query":"Dublin"}

ie_station_departures

Next train departures from one Irish station within the next 90 minutes: time, train, destination, live delay, last reported position. Includes DART and commuter trains. Use when: someone is at (or going to) a station in Ireland. Example: {"station":"Dublin Connolly"}

train

ie_train_connections

Direct trains leaving in the next 90 minutes between two stations in Ireland (Irish Rail Intercity, Commuter, DART, Enterprise to Belfast): departure and arrival times, live delay, where the train is now. Live data only: no later days, no transfers. Use when: someone wants to take a train in Ireland now or soon (e.g. Dublin to Cork). Example: {"from":"Dublin Heuston","to":"Cork"}

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/ie-rail	streamable-http	answering	105 ms	0 min ago

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Faceabot Rail Ireland (Irish Rail, DART) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Faceabot Rail Ireland (Irish Rail, DART) do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: ie_find_station, ie_station_departures, ie_train_connections. 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 →

Is Faceabot Rail Ireland (Irish Rail, DART) 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 433 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Faceabot Rail Ireland (Irish Rail, DART)?

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 Ireland (Irish Rail, DART) need an API key?

No. Faceabot Rail Ireland (Irish Rail, DART) completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Faceabot Rail Ireland (Irish Rail, DART)?

It answers our handshake in 433 ms on average, which is faster than 32% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.