Open train times websites?

[Richard5608]

This may have been asked before
Apart from realtime trains are there any other websites around like it

 

[straller]

This may have been asked before
Apart from realtime trains are there any other websites around like it

If you want timetables with headcodes, there's trains.im. Check it out.

 

[John @ home]

are there any other websites around like it

http://raildar.co.uk/
http://www.opentraintimes.com/

 

[wbbminerals]

Why do Network Rail 'anonymise' headcodes/FOCs but then insist on putting the company name in every rail location?

 

[The Planner]

The location (TIPLOC) code is for planning purposes and to also help in track access billing. It is so we know where the train is going! The FOC name is only likely to ever appear at the destination or origin but it does seem to make a mockery of hiding the headcode in a lot of cases.

 

[Freightmaster]

Why do Network Rail 'anonymise' headcodes/FOCs but then insist on putting the company name in every rail location?

Not "every" location by any means - only some key places served by
more than one FOC, such as Drax power station or Felixstowe South.

Most major yards, such as Carlisle Kingmoor, Crewe Basford Halll,
Bescot, Eastleigh, Doncaster Decoy, Tyne/Tees, etc, do not
have FOC specific location names, nor do freight terminals only
(or mainly) served by DB, such as Lindsey Oil refinery, Mountsorrel
quarry, the steelworks at Scunthorpe, Llanwern, Trostre,
stone terminals in the London area - the list goes on!

Because of this, the anonymization achieved by the current method
is deemed to be "good enough" to satisfy the FOCs that their trains
cannot be easily identified from the open data feeds.


MARK