# Saylor Innovations Belgium Rail Liveboard

> Saylor Innovations Belgium Rail Liveboard is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-16).

Returns live NMBS/SNCB station departure board including destination, platform, delay in seconds, and cancellation status for any Belgian rail station.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/rail/belgium/liveboard?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-belgium-rail-liveboard-5191ad1b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_wfhhmbj4zeaxl3K7FsoiF

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability saylor-innovations-belgium-rail-liveboard-5191ad1b
```

Example prompt: What trains are departing from Antwerp-Central right now — show me the destinations, platforms, and any delays or cancellations?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need live, real-time Belgian (NMBS/SNCB) rail departure data including delays, platform assignments, and cancellations for a specific station. It is purpose-built for Belgian rail via iRail and is more focused and cost-effective than general transit aggregators for this geography. Prefer it over generic public transit APIs when the user is specifically asking about Belgian train stations.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or misspelled station name returns an error or empty result
- iRail upstream outage causes no data to be returned
- Station name ambiguity (e.g. abbreviated names) may resolve to wrong station
- Real-time data may have a short lag if iRail feed is delayed
- Network timeout if upstream rail API is slow

## How this service works

Belgian rail departures - live NMBS/SNCB station board with destination, platform, delay and cancellations from iRail

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the station name and ID, the timestamp of the check (UTC), the number of departures returned, the data source (iRail), and an array of upcoming departures each containing departure time, destination, platform, delay in seconds, a boolean for cancellation status, vehicle details, occupancy info, and a flag for platform changes.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH",
      "DELETE",
      "HEAD"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "station"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "station": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Station name, e.g. Brussels-Central, Antwerp-Central, Ghent-Sint-Pieters"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "station",
      "departures"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "note": {
       "description": "Caveat or context for reading the result"
      },
      "count": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Number of items returned"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
       ],
       "description": "Data source the values come from"
      },
      "station": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Observation station"
      },
      "checked_at": {
       "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
       ],
       "description": "Time the check was run (UTC)"
      },
      "departures": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "time": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Time"
         },
         "vehicle": {
          "description": "Vehicle details"
         },
         "canceled": {
          "type": "boolean"
         },
         "platform": {
          "type": [
           "string",
           "null"
          ],
          "description": "Platform name"
         },
         "occupancy": {},
         "destination": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Destination"
         },
         "delay_seconds": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Delay, in seconds"
         },
         "platform_changed": {
          "description": "Platform changed"
         }
        }
       },
       "description": "Upcoming departures"
  
… (truncated)
```

## More

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- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from saylorinnovations.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/saylorinnovations.com/llms.txt)