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I've noticed that quite a few carriages I see now have small grey and white rectangular RFID tags bolted to them at approximately platform level - does anyone know what they are used for, and whether they are being rolled out across the whole network (since many trains have them, but lots do...

Hi I'm working with a lot of railway people at the moment, and was hoping someone could clear up a bit of terminology for me! I know that some works on track require closures, whilst others can be conducted whilst trains are running. In the latter category it seems that sometimes "line...

Random question: For some R&D work we are doing, we are looking for a location with the following parameters: Gradual curve Lots of container / flat-bed traffic Clear view of the tracks available from outside NR land Our initial test site is here...

Out of interest, does anyone know whether there is an official position from NR on the use or imperial vs metric units? I have seen both used very widely in documents, but nothing that seems to mandate one or the other I was curious, since you wouldn't want to think (as a basic example) you...

Hello, I put together a noncomercial site a while back to display departure boards at http://livetrains.co.uk It was starting to look rather dated, so I have just finished updating it - functionality is still largely the same, but it should be easier to use and work better on mobile...

Travelling on EC from Edinburgh to London, and very bored, I noticed the real-time position map on the wifi launch page. The map itself was just a google mashup, but was also awful. I've put together a nicer map at: http://bbarker.co.uk/eastCoast/ Now this will not actually work unless you...

Hi, Sorry for the number of acronyms in the post title! I've been using the NRE live departure boards (LDB) API for a while now (liveTrains.co.uk) Understandably I guess, given the name of the API, it is very much based around station-centric data. So for example I can run a query on...