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SWR Guard's Mobile - Any tips for apps/websites?

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Lewis5949

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The SWR guards mobile. It will of course have emails, which is SWR's main way of alerting staff to problems. And then there's the National Rail and own SWR apps, neither of which are particularly good though.

However, as a guard, what other websites or apps would you recommend that would be useful to a guard? Opentraintimes is one and I'm sure a Google will bring some up, but sometimes there are hidden gems that don't pop up, so wondered if anyone had any thoughts? Thanks!
 
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Tyrell is good but you have to get a login and password from your employer. It's basically all the alerts that swr send to everyone on email but all in one place. R

realtimes.national rail is also very good but again you have to get the login details from your employer. Shows how long a train is delayed, cancelled trains, trains skipping stops etc

This is what I used what I was platform at swr.
 

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Traksy is pretty good. It's a lot like opentraintimes, but seems to have larger areas, so less clicking and messing about.

Realtimetrains is another one that's helpful sometimes.
 

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Tyrell is a must have for ALL employees. Info Control messages aside the NR feed is good to see in a more staff friendly way what is actually going on with an incident and what the RCM is dealing with.
 

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SWR has Arrakis which I find extremely useful. It gives you all the real time info you need for all the trains on your schedule that day plus a lot more
 

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Tyrell is good but you have to get a login and password from your employer. It's basically all the alerts that swr send to everyone on email but all in one place. R

realtimes.national rail is also very good but again you have to get the login details from your employer. Shows how long a train is delayed, cancelled trains, trains skipping stops etc

This is what I used what I was platform at swr.

Thanks! TyrellCheck sounds great but it seems to only be a website rather than an app. Does it work well as a website or is there an app available under a different name? And where would I get that login from? HR, IT, or my line manager?

What's the realtimes one you mentioned? I looked this up but couldn't seem to find anything on Google, unless it's one of the 'internal' pages like internal.nationalrail.co.uk (which can only be accessed from a whitelisted device/IP)? Sounds great though.

On Googling the second one I came across more goodies like http://iris2.rail.co.uk/tiger/ - which also has some good info and shall be in my bookmarks, thanks!

Traksy is pretty good. It's a lot like opentraintimes, but seems to have larger areas, so less clicking and messing about.

Realtimetrains is another one that's helpful sometimes.

Fantastic, thanks! Love how you can search by Head Code, which I haven't seen available or noticed on other websites.

Tyrell is a must have for ALL employees. Info Control messages aside the NR feed is good to see in a more staff friendly way what is actually going on with an incident and what the RCM is dealing with.

Sounds great considering my guard trainer, when he looked for information, would be scrolling through emails wildly for information!

SWR has Arrakis which I find extremely useful. It gives you all the real time info you need for all the trains on your schedule that day plus a lot more

Arrakis sounds good, looks like another app I would need to request a login for? Can't see it in the public app stores but the website shows an app too? Thanks!
 

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Don't know if you have it there but 'Tiger' is useful.
Let's you see the PIS screens/Departure boards at stations that your TOC serves.
Great for onward connection information, and gauging your eta into a station, especially when delayed.

Also, you can get the Rule book and Sectional Appendices on mobile too.
 

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Don't know if you have it there but 'Tiger' is useful.
Let's you see the PIS screens/Departure boards at stations that your TOC serves.
Great for onward connection information, and gauging your eta into a station, especially when delayed.

Also, you can get the Rule book and Sectional Appendices on mobile too.

Yep, just discovered it from googling one of the earlier answers and already find it great. Unfortunately it only has Waterloo and Salisbury, but as I am based at Waterloo, it's certainly better than nothing! :P
 
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