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RIP old National Rail app

worldsteam

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The Tiger is of interest, useful gen. This is all on my laptop rather than phone app. I used Virgin Trains still - it survived as a sort of subset of Nat Rail, but presented the data much better than Nat Rail itself. I was going to post the URL, but the new Nat Rail now just ignores the 'virgintrains' bit of of the URL and presents the Nat Rail site.
 
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MrJeeves

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Sounds like I need to enable the release for whatever country your Google account is associated with. Happy to do so, just let me know which country!
Why not simply do them all?!
 

boiledbeans2

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I did download Railchecker (android version) a while back, which works very well. The only issue I have is that you have to swipe up and clear to exit the app, you can't simply press back to come out of it. I would have paid for the full version, but would prefer a one off payment option instead of monthly payments. [...]
I thought I had found the perfect app - Railchecker. The app allows me to avoid the Euston Scrum as it has a good platform predictor, based on the arrival platform of the incoming service.

Even if the incoming service hasn't arrived, the app shows, "this service is formed from the 2Y72 18:00 xx service", which allows me to click that 2Y72 service to track its location, or to manually track on OpenTrainTimes map.

But there had been 2 issues recently.

1) It failed to display this altered 2324 service on 21/8/26, which even RTT (and the SWR app) is displaying correctly:
On Railchecker, it was displaying as the 2300 service, delayed by 24mins. So if you checked Railchecker at 2320, the 2300 would have already disappeared from the screen. You would have to manually click "Earlier" to view it.

2) On 24/8/26, the last northbound LNWR service of the day, the 0139 was cancelled (the corresponding first morning southbound service was also cancelled):
The SWR app showed a 0155 Rail Replacement bus. But it didn't show on Railchecker.

So now I use a combination of both SWR and the Railchecker app. SWR for the core departure info, and the Railchecker app to avoid the Euston Scrum.
 

MrJeeves

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Even if the incoming service hasn't arrived, the app shows, "this service is formed from the 2Y72 18:00 xx service", which allows me to click that 2Y72 service to track its location
The TrainSplit Android app offers this too, provided you enable the option in Settings for more detailed train running information.
 

boiledbeans2

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The TrainSplit Android app offers this too, provided you enable the option in Settings for more detailed train running information.

Just tried the Trainsplit app.

Tested it on the again cancelled 0139 last northbound LNWR service of the day (1/9/26), and it was correctly showing the 0155 RRB. Railchecker still doesn't display the RRB.

Indeed it shows the incoming and next services as discussed in the above quote. The only comment I have is that it doesn't display headcodes, so I still have to refer to RTT for headcodes, before tracking the train on the OpenTrainTimes map. Don't know if this could be added in the detailed info. :D
 

MrJeeves

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The only comment I have is that it doesn't display headcodes, so I still have to refer to RTT for headcodes, before tracking the train on the OpenTrainTimes map. Don't know if this could be added in the detailed info. :D
I don't see why not! :)
 

Robski

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I thought I had found the perfect app - Railchecker. The app allows me to avoid the Euston Scrum as it has a good platform predictor, based on the arrival platform of the incoming service.

Even if the incoming service hasn't arrived, the app shows, "this service is formed from the 2Y72 18:00 xx service", which allows me to click that 2Y72 service to track its location, or to manually track on OpenTrainTimes map.

But there had been 2 issues recently.

1) It failed to display this altered 2324 service on 21/8/26, which even RTT (and the SWR app) is displaying correctly:
On Railchecker, it was displaying as the 2300 service, delayed by 24mins. So if you checked Railchecker at 2320, the 2300 would have already disappeared from the screen. You would have to manually click "Earlier" to view it.

2) On 24/8/26, the last northbound LNWR service of the day, the 0139 was cancelled (the corresponding first morning southbound service was also cancelled):
The SWR app showed a 0155 Rail Replacement bus. But it didn't show on Railchecker.

So now I use a combination of both SWR and the Railchecker app. SWR for the core departure info, and the Railchecker app to avoid the Euston Scrum.
Hi, I'm the person behind RailChecker. There has been an issue with my system for processing daily timetable files from Network Rail which has resulted in some incorrect information being shown (incidentally I tried to fix this on Thursday but it crashed the app on Friday :-/), unfortunately this bug was present for a while because the alert I had set up to prevent this issue didn't fire and I was abroad for the last two weeks. This issue is in the process of being rectified however data for that period is unrecoverable - it will be deleted to prevent people from being misled.

Unfortunately there is only one of me and I have a full time job so sometimes it takes a bit longer to fix something.
 

JAWZ

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Weird, TrainMapper’s timetable update failed the other day too - wonder if they‘ve changed something in the feed? I’m not so much hampered by a full time job, but I’m in a field in Devon without my laptop so I won’t be able to fix TrainMapper’s timetable upload until Thursday :lol:
 

ricoblade

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Maybe just me but this morning both the National Rail website and app are not showing any further services when you press the "View later trains" link on the Live Departures page. This is useless for checking whether servicesa are a) planned to run (hello XC) or b) have set off/are on time for long distance services before my stop.

RTT is showing all the services as per normal.
 

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