About

This website, and any others like it, must never be used to make safety-critical decisions.
Do not use the indications on these sites to decide when it is safe go on or near the line, nor to dispatch or move trains.

The diagrams

The above image shows many of the features of the diagrams, most notably the white lines representing each track. Other features are detailed below.

Train Describer Berths

This image shows how Train Describer (TD) Berths are displayed on the diagrams. TD Berths are primarily used to display Train Reporting Numbers (headcodes).

When delay information is available, the delay of a train is shown in the background colour:

If delay information is not available, or the description doesn't represent a train, then the formatting is as follows:

* Due to the nature of TD berths just being 4 alpha-numeric characters, signallers can input any four letter code into them. This means that some trains may be mis-labelled, intentionally (e.g. to prevent station information boards showing platform info or to serve as a reminder) or a mistake (e.g. inputting a zero instead of an 'O' or similar), meaning the above formatting is only an estimate as to what the codes represent.

Signals

This image shows how signals are represented on the diagrams.

This is another set of signals, now with indications used for shunting and permissive working.


How It Works

This website uses the data feeds available from Network Rail. Primarily the Train Describer (TD), and Train Movement (TRUST) feeds.


For further information see the GitHub repositories for this site, note that these are not updated frequently.

People

This site was created and is maintained by Cameron Bird.


Legal

This website uses data from Network Rail under the Open Government Licence.