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Posted by scrlk 9 hours ago

Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network(www.map.signalbox.io)
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robin_reala 8 hours ago|
This only seems to be standard overground trains. If you add in metro networks like the London tube, or light rail / trams like in Manchester, then you’d get at least hundreds more.
jordand 8 hours ago|
The map includes metros across the Tyne and Wear Metro in NE England, and while its not perfect, it's by far the most useful train live tracking I've ever seen. There's quite a few places in the UK with different rail systems that don't fit together (and have apps of varying quality/usefulness)
jeroenhd 7 hours ago||
Dutch (and Dutch-bound) rail network overview: https://treinposities.nl/ And the equivalent for buses: https://busposities.nl/ Not all of them have GPS trackers, so some positions are guessed.

There's functionality for this in the official Dutch Railways app, but it looks like they didn't bother putting that onto their website. There is a common source of open data for most of these details, but I don't find the docs to be very complete.

JeremyBarbosa 6 hours ago|
Wow! https://treinposities.nl/ even shows historical positions since 2019. Feels like something you'd only see in a cheesy murder mystery.
CivilR 8 hours ago||
Here is the map made by the Swedish transport authority: https://www.trafikverket.se/trafikinformation/tagkarta/
donohoe 5 hours ago||
Very nice! I’m making one for NYC subway. It’s still in-progress and animations need a lot more work. Next steps was to adjust the size and overlay it on a proper map.

https://donohoe.dev/subway/map/

chathaway123 5 hours ago|
This is great - thank you! There is no background map (Firefox) but its still very clear and fun.

PS. If you are taking a feature request, I immediately double-clicked on my line to try to focus only on that (i.e. hide all the other lines). So that might be useful for others.

ctphipps 7 hours ago||
Tokyo equivalent with animated trains, weather, flights and more: https://minitokyo3d.com/
doginasuit 5 hours ago|
This one is incredible with its smooth animations and the ability to ride along with a train.
davidpapermill 4 hours ago||
Are the trains located where the urban areas are, or are the urban areas built around the train network?

It's chicken and egg question, but in Manchester and London it's very clear that mass transit led to urban development, rather than the other way around.

It's very surprising that cities like Leeds have no mass transit at all, and sizeable cities like Liverpool and Birmingham don't have much.

parkersweb 7 hours ago||
Bit puzzled by some of the station data. This train:

https://www.map.signalbox.io/?train=202607066710114&location...

is a train from Cambridge to Kings Cross - and in the side panel it shows it as calling at the new Cambridge South station. But Cambridge South isn't shown on the map. That's kinda understandable (because it opened a week ago), but Cambridge North (which opened in 2017) also isn't shown on the map. Neither are offered in any of the auto-complete dropdowns?

I'm wondering if the station data a static dataset which hasn't been updated in a long time?

greengreengrass 6 hours ago||
It's probably a static feed, and they've probably had to do some lifting to define the layout and map that to the raw data they get from Network Rail, and they've probably not updated it for newly opened stations. There is a station near me that's been open for many years that isn't shown there either.

There are many different alphabet-soup coding systems used across Network Rail, retailing systems, and the wider railway industry to identify locations on the network. Station names will often be different in different databases; look at any station with an apostrophe in and you'll find it inconsistently named in different places.

lewispollard 4 hours ago||
Yeah it only seems to show small station near me, and not the main city stations, not sure why but it's very incomplete, and not related to age. For example Sheffield station isn't on the map, and that opened in 1870.
rupellohn 5 hours ago||
It's fun to watch it side-by-side with https://www.youtube.com/@RailcamUKLive
dleeftink 2 hours ago||
There are two very lonely trains departing from Stranraer and Kyle of Lochalsh
sschueller 7 hours ago|
Shameless self-promotion: I make a departure board for the Swiss public transportation network: https://www.stationdisplay.com/
xeetzer 5 hours ago||
A bit of feedback on the Try it out section:

- So for some stations (most?) it shows that all trains go to the selected station, nowhere else.

- Also the search show only one station at a time instead of the multiple that could match the search. And even if we typed the whole station name, it might match another station, which mean the station is not selectable at all.

panick21_ 7 hours ago||
I suggest you adjust your search results based on population. If I search for 'Luzern' it suggests 'Eschenbach'.
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