Projects

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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.
Phil Wieland phil@philwieland.com GIT Openrail

Open Rail

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

Backend source

Darwin push port backed live departure boards
Andrew Montagne @andrew@montagne.uk timetables.lol

Source code

LDBWS-based departure boards (example URL is for Waterloo, base URL currently has CRS selector)
Evelyn Snow User:EvelynSnow Mercury (deployed)

Frontend source Backend source

Darwin push port backed live departure boards
Gaelan Steele User:GaelanSteele

gaelan+trains@canishe.com @Gaelan@cathode.church

Yadfe

Source

Yet another Darwin frontend: Huxley-backed live departure boards
David Wheatley User:DavidWheatley

david@railannouncements.co.uk

Rail announcements: live trains

Rail Dot Matrix

Open source Huxley2 (LDBWS) 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.

Alan Morrison geofurlong@outlook.com GeoFurlong Explore Britain's mainline railways via interactive mapping of routes and junction areas. View tabulated route information, including nearest place name along routes and what3words integration.