Realtime Trains
Available inEnglish
Area servedGreat Britain
Founder(s)Tom Cairns
URLwww.realtimetrains.co.uk
AdvertisingYes
CommercialYes
RegistrationNo
LaunchedOctober 2012 (2012-10)
Current statusActive

Realtime Trains is a website that tracks trains on the British railway network.

History

Realtime Trains was launched in October 2012 by Tom Cairns, a student at the University of Southampton.[1][2]

In March 2020, Abellio ScotRail became the first operator to share additional rolling stock information with Realtime Trains.[3] The additional information was dubbed Know Your Train, and includes a visual overview of the type of rolling stock and number of carriages used by each service.[4] Operators which now offer this information include Northern Trains and TransPennine Express.[5] In May 2021, Realtime Trains stated that 45% of the distance travelled by trains on the British railway network was covered by Know Your Train.[6]

Another service called Track Your Train was added in September 2020, offering advanced notice of platform alterations and potential delays to a service. Initially, Track Your Train is only available on selected services starting at London Liverpool Street.[7]

Following a grant from the Culture Recovery Fund, in 2021 Realtime Trains installed live departure boards for Swanage Railway heritage services at Corfe Castle and Swanage stations.[8]

Data sources

The data presented on Realtime Trains is created using a variety of sources and human input.[9] In 2017, Realtime Trains installed GPS tracking devices in trains to allow services to be tracked during a diesel gala on the Swanage Railway.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Lea, Martin (11 May 2017). "Realtime Trains website installed GPS units in carriages being hauled during Swanage Railway's diesel gala". Dorset Echo. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  2. ↑ Heaton, John (June 2014). "Real Time Trains". The Railway Magazine. Mortons Media Group. p. 16. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Sapién, Josephine Cordero (10 March 2020). "ScotRail First TOC to Publish Real Time Train Data". Railway News. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  4. ↑ Cairns, Tom (11 March 2020). "Introducing Know Your Train". Realtime Trains. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  5. ↑ "New app to help Northern passengers find out 'realtime' train information". Rochdale Online. 5 November 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  6. ↑ Holden, Michael (29 May 2021). "TransPennine Express joins Real Time Trains Know Your Train Scheme". Rail Advent. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  7. ↑ Cairns, Tom (14 September 2020). "Introducing Track Your Train". Realtime Trains. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  8. ↑ Lea, Martin (25 May 2021). "Swanage Railway's new innovative £223k system". Dorset Echo. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  9. ↑ Steadman, Ian (21 July 2014). "Public transport bodies: producing lots of data, not necessarily making the most of it". New Statesman. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.