Live Train Arrivals/Departures

[TurboFintan]

I have used live arrivals and departures to check for trains on holidays in Europe and this was very helpful as it was similar to Realtime Trains and contained details of each service such as their calling points. However now I cannot remember where I found it from but I am fairly certain it was on this website: https://rail.cc/en

If I am correct, I hope they didn't remove that feature. And if so, are there other websites which have this or something similar?

 

[itfcfan]

I'd be interested to know if rail.cc (or any other website) provides such a service.

I've relied on DB before - their live departure boards are quite good for many countries (Belgium, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, etc - as well as Germany):
https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/bhftafel.exe/en

 

[JonathanP]

The Deutsche Bahn journey planner contains details of most train services in Europe and is my go-to site for most journey planning enquiries.

Most of the journey planners offered by the various national railway companies cover multiple countries too, particularly for local journeys it is better to use the local version as it may have more up to date or detailed information. Usually they are available in English too.

 

[TurboFintan]

I'd be interested to know if rail.cc (or any other website) provides such a service.

I've relied on DB before - their live departure boards are quite good for many countries (Belgium, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, etc - as well as Germany):
https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/bhftafel.exe/en

Yes that's the one, think rail.cc had that same one on their website. Many thanks!

The Deutsche Bahn journey planner contains details of most train services in Europe and is my go-to site for most journey planning enquiries.

Most of the journey planners offered by the various national railway companies cover multiple countries too, particularly for local journeys it is better to use the local version as it may have more up to date or detailed information. Usually they are available in English too.

Thanks, I think I have used this for buying tickets.

 

[Please Explain]

Pete (the site admin over there) has been doing a lot of work on the site lately and the upgrade is still under way. I'll ask him if he plans to get this useful function back up.

 

[TurboFintan]

Pete (the site admin over there) has been doing a lot of work on the site lately and the upgrade is still under way. I'll ask him if he plans to get this useful function back up.

That would be fantastic, thanks

 

[Adlington]

There is something similar for Poland:
https://infopasazer.intercity.pl/
but it's in Polish only.

 

[Please Explain]

Not logged on in ages but heard back from Pete and this is what he had to say:

"As short reply: yes, we are in the "middle" of the update of the rail.cc website. Or to be honest: there is no "middle"... there is never an end and we can always add new features.
For now, we have the schedule planer like you said based on hafas of Deutsche Bahn: https://plan.rail.cc
Or to find departure and arrival times of a certain station it is https://time.rail.cc
Both based on reiseauskunft.bahn.de
"

So the live arrivals/departures function is still there, the links to it have just temporarily disappeared during the upgrade.
Hope this helps!

 

[TurboFintan]

Not logged on in ages but heard back from Pete and this is what he had to say:

"As short reply: yes, we are in the "middle" of the update of the rail.cc website. Or to be honest: there is no "middle"... there is never an end and we can always add new features.
For now, we have the schedule planer like you said based on hafas of Deutsche Bahn: https://plan.rail.cc
Or to find departure and arrival times of a certain station it is https://time.rail.cc
Both based on reiseauskunft.bahn.de
"

So the live arrivals/departures function is still there, the links to it have just temporarily disappeared during the upgrade.
Hope this helps!

Thanks so much, please pass on my thanks to Pete as now it is how I remembered it. Very useful for me and likely for others as well!