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Posted by scrlk 13 hours ago

Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network(www.map.signalbox.io)
366 points | 136 commentspage 6
steamsloth 11 hours ago|
Perhaps I’m going mad based off the praise heaped in other responses, but - something seems wildly off with the locations?

I just witnessed a London Liverpool street service plough through the M25 motorway - about 40 miles south of it's typical route and 5 miles south of the nearest actual railway. Dozens of the trains seem to be traversing through the English channel/La Manche towards the north sea.

In fact the number of trains actually tracking a rail line (and this is outside of the cities where the tube/metro might obscure this) seems in the minority. Most seem to be going straight through the middle of farmers fields on some obscure course unrelated to theirs.

Cider9986 10 hours ago||
The surveillance is... quite disturbing.

edit: /s

appreciatorBus 10 hours ago||
How is it surveillance for an organization that operates a fleet of trains, to know where the trains are?

Even if there were no such thing as GPS, simply the act of running a fleet of trains or trucks or buses on a schedule, means that anyone could do a bit of math and roughly calculate the position of every vehicle based solely on the schedule.

greengreengrass 9 hours ago|||
This information is derived from open signalling data, which the signalling system _has_ to track to operate trains safely and identify their locations.

The reality is the illusion of pinpoint accuracy is a figment of this site's imagination; this site is using some creative license to guess the precise location of trains.

giarc 10 hours ago||
How? Knowing the location of trains is pretty important.
flanked-evergl 12 hours ago|
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_joel 11 hours ago||
Cop? what? Also there's British Transport Police.
ErroneousBosh 12 hours ago|||
This map is for the UK, not the US. We don't have ICE here.
pjc50 10 hours ago|||
No, that's Deutsche Bahn.

(probably an inappropriate place for a joke, but at least it's about trains)

nephihaha 11 hours ago||||
Most of the UK. Northern Ireland's network is not included.
jjgreen 11 hours ago||
Quite right, "UK" is an abbreviation for "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
nephihaha 6 hours ago||
I could also mention Manx Railways, which are historic heritage lines, but there are at least three railway lines there that are mostly used by tourists and some commuters.

The Isle of Man has a curious relationship with the UK. As a Manxman once said to me, the government there is British when it feels like it and not British when it feels like it.

flanked-evergl 8 hours ago||||
Cop body slams a white man and then arrests him after he was assaulted by black people: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uk-man-was-assaulted-by-atta...

Of course the black people were let go. After all, they did nothing wrong, they just assaulted a white guy.

iso1631 11 hours ago|||
It's a reference to the murder of Henry Nowak, a sad example of knife crime which exists in the uk, and of individual police officers who failed to render basic first aid.

The family not only lost their son, but then had to see his name used to further the global hatred of the farage types

crimsoneer 11 hours ago|||
I suspect it's linked to this which is the latest example being used.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uk-man-was-assaulted-by-atta...

flanked-evergl 9 hours ago||
Sorry if reality is right wing propaganda.
iso1631 6 hours ago||
in 24/25 there were 524 murders, of which 70% of the victims were white.

81% of the UK is white

70% of murder victims were male.

So reality is that white people are less likely to be murdered than non-white people, and women are less likely to be murdered than men.

flanked-evergl 9 hours ago||||
Sorry if reality is right wing proaganda.

Henry Nowak was killed because he was white.

Vikram Digwa and his brothers followed him because he was white.

They stabbed him because he was white.

They called the police on him after stabbing him because he was white.

They said he was being racist because he was white, and the police believed them because he was white.

The police arrested him because he was white, and the police didn't believe him after he'd been stabbed because he was white.

The police let him drown in his own blood because he was white.

ErroneousBosh 10 hours ago|||
What's that got to do with "arresting people for the crime of being white"?

That's a pretty common racist dogwhistle, propagated by groups like Farage's Russian owner.

iso1631 9 hours ago||
Henry Nowak was white, he was stabbed by a criminal, but then arrested because they believed the murderer
crimsoneer 12 hours ago||
This feels like a weird takeway to take from this!

Out of curiousity, where are you from? I find it interesting where only people who get so exercised about the UK get their info from...

_joel 11 hours ago||
OP shares dailymail.co.uk links. I think they're probably not located in the UK, but a bot account.