Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

https://www.map.signalbox.io

64•scrlk•1h ago

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robin_reala•46m ago

This only seems to be standard overground trains. If you add in metro networks like the London tube, or light rail / trams like in Manchester, then you’d get at least hundreds more.

jordand•39m ago

The map includes metros across the Tyne and Wear Metro in NE England, and while its not perfect, it's by far the most useful train live tracking I've ever seen. There's quite a few places in the UK with different rail systems that don't fit together (and have apps of varying quality/usefulness)

AJRF•42m ago

> Signalbox's technology identifies the train a device is on by matching a snapshot of smartphone data to a train’s trajectory data. The technology uses advanced algorithms works even with severely degraded data. We are able to pinpoint a smartphone to any type of train without background location tracking or hardware.

Hmm, that's...interesting?

vaillancourtmax•33m ago

Seems similar to Transit's approach: https://blog.transitapp.com/go-underground/

ed_elliott_asc•31m ago

I wonder what app has allow location on all the time and is feeding them their data

bcraven•23m ago

"Acquired by Trainline in 2023, Signalbox works with organisations across the rail ecosystem to improve customer information and operational awareness."

https://www.signalbox.io/news/southeastern-launches-track-my...

AJRF•15m ago

Few questions, wonder if anyone knows the answers:

1. So it's Trainline on a persons phone that is tracking this info and using it to enrich this service? I use Trainline and didn't know it was doing that, but I do have location permissions on because I was told that powered the search picker when I started using the app.

2. What did they use _before_ Trainline? Or was Trainline selling user location data to them?

Liquid_Fire•11m ago

I think you're misunderstanding what they are saying. They don't use background location data, but they do use your current location data. Try the "Find My Train" demo on their site - it asks for location permission.

Or their API - it also expects device location data:

> At a minimum, requests to the detect endpoint _must_ contain a device's location measurement. Additional fields can be included where available to improve the accuracy of the returned results as outlined below.

https://docs.signalbox.io/docs#/operations/Detect_detect

philipwhiuk•40m ago

Topping out at 10 minutes delay for the most severe marker colour is an interesting choice.

xnorswap•32m ago

It would be better if they were aligned to the delay repay thresholds.

mschuster91•3m ago

Certainly would not work out in Germany LOL

maelito•34m ago

Checkout the French equivalent : https://carto.tchoo.net. Looks more complete.

Past similar HN submission got no attention, whereas the UK's top page. Interesting !

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45249351

KlutzySofa•21m ago

The title matters a lot. Without "real-time" this submission has likely gotten the same lack of attention.

inglor_cz•31m ago

I remember my colleague from MFF UK, Robert Babilon, producing his first real-time map of Czech trains in 2004.

The page, called Babitron, still exists and still keeps that delightful 2004 look. I visited it a few days ago. Unfortunately today there is a message "We are moving Babitron to a different server", so the link isn't working.

https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~babilon/zpmapa2

HaphazardGuess•30m ago

very cool. Unrelated but anytime im looking at a map be it city roads, rails subway, etc i wish there was a way to filter the layers based on construction date.

I would like to be able to see when each road/section was built. I assume with GoogleEarth and other databases it should be possible to run some kind changelog comparison and do this at scale for at least the last 20 years or so.

CivilR•25m ago

Here is the map made by the Swedish transport authority: https://www.trafikverket.se/trafikinformation/tagkarta/

andredlng•23m ago

I would love to see this for Germany :D

fuzzy2•4m ago

https://travic.app/

Basically all of Europe, with varying levels of detail.

niknight•8m ago

this reminds me of the London specific equivalent posted awhile back: https://londonunderground.live (previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43651390). Also the Boston equivalent https://tmap.live.

haunter•4m ago

Hungary https://vonatinfo.mav.hu/

_joel•4m ago

Used this many times during the longer commutes across country, works well.

a_c•4m ago

Off-topic, I don't get why people still use a www subdomain, especially so in this case, www.map. Conway's Law in action?

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