Projects
Existing projects
There are a number of people working on projects using rail data. Please add yourself to this list if you are too!
| Who | Contact | Project | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Hicks | peter.hicks@opentraintimes.com | OpenTrainTimes | First user of Network Rail data. Timetables and real-time signalling maps |
| Tom Cairns | tom@swlines.co.uk | Realtime Trains | Historical, real-time and future train schedules using TRUST and TD data |
| Rob West | feedback@raildar.co.uk | Raildar | Searchable historic train performance, statistics, departure boards and real-time location plotting |
| Placr | info@placr.co.uk | TransportAPI | Aggregation and analytics service for UK public transport |
| RailCam | unknown | Railcam.uk | Trackside cameras, live signalling diagrams and live rail data. |
| Realtime UK train map | connorhd@gmail.com | Realtime UK train map | A quick project to visualise some of the open data available about the UK train network. |
| Al Pearson | apps@jawz.co.uk | TrainMapper | Realtime live GB train map apps (iOS, Android coming soon!) showing locations of all trains on the network today.
Shows the planned route of any train, as well as timings if the train is already running/terminated. Also shows summary of all movements for a given station/TIPLOC. |
| Phil Wieland | phil@philwieland.com | GIT Openrail | Open source software to download and process timetable, movement and TD streams.
Real time train data, and signalling diagrams. |
| James Singleton | j.p.singleton+huxley@gmail.com | Huxley | A CORS enabled cross-platform .NET JSON proxy for the Live Departure Boards public and staff SOAP APIs |
| Pilning Station Group | Contact form | Pilning Live | Using Open Data as a driver to publicise a least-used station and to make a serious case for service improvements using analytics of collected data. Some Pilning-specific analytics available online. |
| Peter Mount | @peter@area51.social | Departure boards | Darwin push port backed live departure boards |
| Andrew Montagne | @andrew@montagne.uk | timetables.lol | LDBWS-based departure boards (example URL is for Waterloo, base URL currently has CRS selector) |
| Evelyn Snow | User:EvelynSnow | Mercury (deployed) | Darwin push port backed live departure boards |
| Gaelan Steele | User:GaelanSteele
gaelan+trains@canishe.com @Gaelan@cathode.church |
Yadfe | Yet another Darwin frontend: Huxley-backed live departure boards |
| David Wheatley | User:DavidWheatley
david@railannouncements.co.uk |
Rail announcements: live trains | Open source RDM Live Departure Board based services.
Rail Announcements announces trains in real-time using FOI-released audio. Rail Dot Matrix complements this with a choice of real-time simulated departure boards. |
| Tim Crowter | tim@trainboard.uk | Trainboard.uk | Simple, fast, live departure boards. Bonus: dark and light mode. |
| Woody Willis |
User:WoodyWillis woody@trainly.co.uk |
Trainly | Mobile app combining data from Darwin Push Port and Network Rail feeds |