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Originally Posted by bramleyman
According to the latest issue of Railway Magazine, there is also now one here, but I am yet to read all of it. The link is: realtimetrains.co.uk
Hope this of help.
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I've been looking at that site. It seems to do pretty much what Live Departure Boards does, with a few extra gimmicks.
Personally speaking I find the name "Real Time Trains" is a little deceptive. To me that suggests that you can see
exactly where the train is. Given that the railway's own system, P2, only displays trains' locations to within about a mile (dependent on track circuit & signal spacing), you're not going to get particularly accurate info. And and far as I know P2 is not made available to 'outside parties'. So the best information that these websites can tell us is that a train is between two stations - hardly 'Real Time Information'.
We've kind of missed a trick here as the most modern stock (e.g. Bombardier Electrostar)
does use GPS to control onboard displays & auto-announcers, but we don't yet have a system like aircraft do - namely Flight Trackers (e.g. Flightradar24) where the their own GPS info is sent outwards as telemetry for any member of the public to see.
One day, maybe. GSM-R is certainly capable of handling it.
HTH