# The Railway: Agent-Direct Score C (61.5%)

Site: https://www.therailwaybirmingham.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/therailwaybirmingham.co.uk
Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
The Railway is partly visible to agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of The Railway. It finds no menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds no link to book or order online.

## Direct links
- Phone: +44 1216 437 167

## What to fix first
- **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+15 points) Agents find no link to follow on the site. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so an agent can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site.

```
# The Railway

> bar or pub in Lower Severn Street B1 1PU Birmingham, Birmingham cafes and bars. Phone +44 1216 437 167.

## About

- Website: https://www.therailwaybirmingham.co.uk/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- **Structured data present (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (C then)
- Fixed: nothing
- New: nothing

## Where it stands
90 of 190 in Birmingham cafes and bars. Top 47% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 95% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 84% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 84% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 53% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 5% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Bonehead (C, 32 m, https://directindex.org/r/boneheaduk.com); The London and North Western (B, 102 m, https://directindex.org/r/jdwetherspoon.com); The Victoria (C, 142 m, https://directindex.org/r/thevictoriabirmingham.co.uk); Kitty Cafe (C, 156 m, https://directindex.org/r/kittycafe.co.uk); Roxy Ball Room (A, 212 m, https://directindex.org/r/roxyleisure.co.uk); Fox & Chance Cocktail Bar (C, 213 m, https://directindex.org/r/foxandchance.co.uk); Tim Hortons (D, 219 m, https://directindex.org/r/timhortons.co.uk); Medicine (A, 246 m, https://directindex.org/r/medicinebakery.co.uk); T4 Tea For U (F, 247 m, https://directindex.org/r/t4.com.tw); The Sun on the Hill (C, 277 m, https://directindex.org/r/thesunonthehill.co.uk).

## What assistants answer
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/therailwaybirmingham.co.uk/agent-view

## Businesses like The Railway in Birmingham cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars | 190 | 49% | 22% | 61.5% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars: Vagabond Wines (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/vagabondwines.co.uk); Centenary Coffee & Co (A 91.3%, https://directindex.org/r/centenarylounge.com); Be at One (A 90%, https://directindex.org/r/beatone.co.uk); Dirty Martini (A 90%, https://directindex.org/r/dirtymartini.co.uk); Nortons (A 90%, https://directindex.org/r/nortonsdigbeth.com).

With the two fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; No menu or price list found) the score would be about 95.4%: 2nd of 190 in Birmingham cafes and bars, up from 90th.

## The direct record
What agents get for The Railway, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/therailwaybirmingham.co.uk
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +44 1216 437 167

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): not measured
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): not measured
- MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no
- Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): not measured

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 15 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/therailwaybirmingham.co.uk
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md)
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md)
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/therailwaybirmingham.co.uk/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/therailwaybirmingham.co.uk/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=therailwaybirmingham.co.uk&force=1