Projects
Community projects
There are several community-driven projects which are creating additional datasets or adding value to existing ones. Some of these may need help - if you're interested in helping out, please get in touch with the organiser.
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 | Project | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Hicks | peter.hicks@poggs.co.uk | 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 |
| Matthew Cockburn | matthew.cockburn@blueyonder.co.uk | Trains around Bristol | Real-time locations using TD data STANOX field |
| 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. |
| Real-time PPM | unknown | Real-time PPM | A real-time display of PPM data and Twitter messages |
| Nathan Johnson | nathan@gbrail.info | GB Rail GTFS | Train schedules in GTFS format, updated weekly. |
| 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. |
| Michael Pritchard | blueghostuk@gmail.com | Train Delayed | Allows you to view delays on (direct) train journeys (work in progress) |
| Train Notifier | Displays real-time train information, schedules and PPM (work in progress) | ||
| twitter account | Tweets when trains leave FWY station early (work in progress) - needs to be more accurate based on TD data | ||
| Steve Ardagh-Walter | sardaghwalter@gmail.com | Levelx.info | Road user alerts for level crossing closures. Early stage work in progress |
| RDF Group | Contact form | Railtracker | Real-time tracking of delays |
| Phil Wieland | phil@philwieland.com | GIT Openrail | Open source software to download and process timetable, movement and TD streams.
Real time signalling diagrams. |
| Marc Siegenthaler | marc@level-crossing.co.uk | Level-Crossing.co.uk | Real-time information about level crossings. |
| James Singleton | feedback@shutdownscanner.com | Huxley | A CORS enabled JSON proxy for the National Rail Live Departure Board SOAP API (Darwin) |
| Tom Spink | tspink@gmail.com | Scotrail Live | Real-time signalling information about the Scottish rail network. Unfortunately, this has been offline for a number of months as there's currently no capacity on the Network Rail Data Feeds server for my account to be made active. |