Martin Underwood wrote:
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.

Quite correct. It would of course be better if a direct train could move
along the line of the stopping service at least (or the actual track in a
perfect world ), but currently it doesn't, and I don't have time to add
it. It would require knowing the routes of the lines (e.g. if it comes
across a Reading-Oxford direct, it would need to know which route that
actually should go along).

- it needs many more stations adding to the database and the drop-down list

Fetching the data requires a few lookups on National Rail's website, and
every station added would need more.

- 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

I wouldn't know how to collect that information, I'm afraid.

Hope its failings don't annoy you too much, I only did it as a bit of fun -
I like it :-)
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