Sam Wilson wrote in
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In article ,
Theo Markettos wrote:

In uk.railway Tom Anderson wrote:
[crossposted to uk.r - apologies if you've had this already; should
really go to a cam. group too, but i don't know those]

Sadly not time travel maps:

http://www.mysociety.org/2006/travel-time-maps/

From the same people - live train position maps:
http://www.traintimes.org.uk/map/

Interesting. As at Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:37:17 +0100 there are no
trains running north of Mansfield and no railways north of Edinburgh.
Oh, and there's a considerable lack of through routes out of London -
in fact the only railway out of London goes
Reading-Didcot-Swindon-Stroud-Gloucester...

Another peculiarity of http://www.traintimes.org.uk/map/ is that direct
trains and stopping trains are shown on different lines on the map. I think
the black and grey lines are straight lines which join the stations at which
the train calls. Taking the Reading-Oxford area, there's one set of lines
which joins each of the intermediate stations, and stopping trains are shown
as progressing along that route. But then there's another straight line
which joins Reading and Oxford directly, bypassing the curved route of the
real railway line, and non-stop Reading-Oxford trains progress along that.
Rather counter-intuitive.

It's a very clever idea, although it needs a bit of refinement:

- it needs many more stations adding to the database and the drop-down list
- it needs all trains on a given railway line to be shown on the same line
on the map, irrespective of whether they stop at intemediate stations: then
you can see when trains are about to pass each other
- it needs the ability to show all trains on all railway lines in the area,
as a user-selectable alternative to presenting only those which are serving
the selected station