Chinese Train Control System level 3 (CTCS-3) train control on-board equipment plays a crucial role in ensuring train safety and improving operational efficiency. On-board interface equipment enables interaction between the on-board Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, and ground equipment, drivers and trains. However, faults in on-board interface equipment account for a relatively high proportion of on-board equipment faults. In order to identify fault causes and ensure safety, a fault diagnosis method for on-board interface equipment based on temporal knowledge graph completion was proposed. In the method, travel logs and fault statistical data were integrated by introducing the temporal series, which extracted fault phenomena, performed entity alignment, and constructed a temporal knowledge graph. On the basis of the above, a fault diagnosis network based on knowledge graph completion was constructed; Temporal-Translating Embedding (T-TransE) vectorization, and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) network as well as Self-Attention (SA) mechanism were integrated for temporal feature extraction. Finally, the T-TransE vectorization model was pretrained using on-board interface equipment fault data from a railway administration in recent years, and the temporal introduction method with the best effect was selected. In order to validate superiority of the proposed method and effectiveness of the data integration method, the diagnostic network without data integration or temporal relationship introduction, as well as other common fault diagnostic networks, were tested using the on-board fault data. Experimental results show that with the same corpus, the temporal knowledge graph completion-based fault diagnosis model achieves the highest accuracy of 96.69% compared to other fault diagnosis frameworks.