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Thanks [.n]! It's just a shame that nobody is using trains at the moment ;)

Hello folks, thought I'd dredge up this thread again to let you know that my iPhone version of Commuter Train Check is now available on the Apple App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/commuter-train-check/id1538789056). Let me know what you think, including any issues you encounter. Note that...

I'll be releasing "Commuter Train Check" on the iPhone once iOS 14 is launched in the next few weeks (it will only work on iOS 14 onwards, unfortunately). It has the exact same functionality and look/feel as the Android version. I've finished the build, though it needs a some testing on real...

Hello! Yes, currently in development! It will have identical functionality to the Android version. I'm aiming to have it out there in the next two or three months, all going well. Here is the link to the app on Google Play. The screenshots give a good idea of the functionality. The unique...

Hi 800002, thanks for the kind feedback, glad you like the app! Re: the train lengths, my app will show them as soon as it gets them. My app talks to my own server, which is constantly fed updates (several thousand a minute at peak times) from National Rail's "Darwin Push Port" service. So if...

Thinking about this now, I'd probably add the "journey planner" into a separate screen to the left of the main screen, so you can easily side-swipe to it (or access it from an icon or menu option). I'd also add an "Open in Journey Planner" entry to the journey button as a convenience. With that...

Hi BRX, apologies for my very late response - just noticed your message now! Glad that you find it nice to use - I genuinely think it is less fussy and more "smooth" to use than the other apps out there - I am a daily user myself. Before covid-19 struck I was building up a small but gradually...

Cheers for the feedback and support, @Mathew S, positive indeed! I am also a daily user (eating my own dog food I think they call it), and prefer it to the other more glitchy, fussy apps out there on the market. I totally get your edge-case though, and I did ponder over it as one of my real-life...

Hello folks, just to announce the V1.9 has been deployed and should reach your devices in the next few hours or so. The big enhancement in this version is support for multi-leg journeys (@BRX hopefully you can give this a try out, and feed back please!). You can specify up to 3 legs in each...

Cheers, @Mathew S :-)

Just to add that V1.4 is now out there, and should reach devices in the next few hours. The most significant addition, @Mathew S , is the ability to specify up to 3 source and up to 3 destination stations. I'll be very interested to hear how you find it in the real world! I'm hoping it's obvious...

Ah, right, got ya. I've made a note of it, and will have a play to see how it feels with that behaviour.

Hi BRX, re: the back button, are you saying that it quits the app when in the "Detail" screen? I have programmed it specifically to slide back to the Home screen if you are on the detail screen, so I'm confused as to the behaviour you're experiencing. Do you know which version of Android you are...

Just a quick post to say that V1.3 is out there now, which now includes the ability to show "earlier trains" for any given journey (well, trains in motion or those that have reached their destination within the last half hour). In addition, any train in the Detail screen will stay there until...

No problem, @Mathew S ! Actually, the alternative source/destination stations is probably not that much of an edge-case. On my commute, I can actually walk to two different stations next to each other on the same line, and the trains don't always stop at both (especially in rush hour). There...

@BRX I've just deployed version 1.2 (will take a while to reach devices), which has various refinements mentioned above - content no longer disappears on refresh, auto-refresh when the app is brought back to the foreground (this is a very nice feature actually!), estimated arrival time at...

I think the two scenarios are different? In post no. 40, were you not referring to split journeys (and setting up different variations of split journeys so you can compare the results)? Matthew S is not referring to split journeys, but rather alternative start and end stations (no splits, simple...

@Mathew S Thanks for the positive feedback! Can I clarify your use-case? Are you saying that you would want to be able to specify multiple "From" and multiple "To" stations, and then the app would simply list all the services that match any combination? So in your case it would list any of the...

Hi BRX, on the topic of Clapham Junction, this is now fixed. Clapham is one of those stations where, internally there are multiple different "stations" under one banner... and no obvious systematic way in the data to connect them (at least in the data I can find from the various sources)...

Thanks BRX, I think we are on the same page with this, and point taken about the destination arrival time being of importance when a multi-leg journey is significant. I shall see what I can do. I'll do an update this week with the various points addressed except for the multi-leg thing, which I...