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Hi all, Comparison tool updated and now includes a location filter option for station queries making it easy to compare the service pattern for a specific journey... https://live-departures.info/rail/timetable-comparison/

Concerns around face recognition technology may be a factor here. The capabilities are insane, you can be picked out in a crowd photo of 100s or even 1000s. That despite those worried quite likely carrying around a phone with high resolution location services enabled!

A gateline should be able to validate a ticket using the same Journey Planner API that issued it.

They should hook it up to Darwin so the eyeballs turning red is synchronised with delays across the departure boards it is facing.

Reading briefly self declared itself a city something like 20 years or so ago. Bus destination displays definitely showed "City Centre" and I'm pretty sure many road signs were changed as well. Went on for about 3 or 4 months and then all of a sudden it all disappeared overnight..!

A box that size could be mostly batteries, the actual electronics involved are probably tiny and very low power consumption possibly even reporting over the air periodically if not storing the data for later physical collection. Period of capture could be time based so no need to run overnight...

I've seen similar go up around here in the last couple of years and then removed a few weeks later. I'm wondering if it is for vehicle counting (radar?) - a modern day equivalent of those rubber tubes stuck to the road to do traffic surveys...?

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I feel like the day I left the UK railway industry was the last day a line of code was ever written internally!

And it seems to be doing very good business. They should rename it The Full and Standing! I never realised how big that unit was until being opened up. Approx 30p price premium across the board on food and drinks compared to their other Birmingham city centre pubs and the food menu is very...

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Comparison tool now more or less complete (no data for IL for the comparison basis at this time) https://live-departures.info/rail/timetable-comparison/

Train In Position LOCation

And here is the view of Birmingham New Street and the now retired PSB from Alpha Tower...

Related to the above, Elizabeth Line services from Paddington low level are completely dominating the departure board in websites and apps using the open data feeds, often making up 8 or even 9 out of the next 10 departures (several methods of the Darwin web services are limited to 10 results)...

EE south of Crewe around Basford Hall

Comparison tool now loaded with the December data published so far (weekly updated RDG feed) https://live-departures.info/rail/timetable-comparison/

Certainly have a good look into HTML5 / JavaScript for this, there's a Drag and Drop API all ready to go... https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_draganddrop.asp

Me. Intended: Stafford to Reading > Beer Festival > Reading to Stafford Actual: Stafford to Reading > Beer Festival > Reading to Manchester Piccadilly

This is a few issues out of date apologies, I'll run a full update overnight tonight...