Live train maps

[Carl]

Recently stumbled across this live map of trains in Hungary:
http://elvira.mav-start.hu/terkep/

It's quite something!


The closest the UK has, I think, is this:
http://traintimes.org.uk/map/

However, I've heard that National Rail will shortly be releasing the data required to make maps more like the Hungarian map.


Do other countries have equivalent maps?

[Combuijs]

In the Netherlands even the national railway does not know where their trains are at any moment of the day! 

[AP]

There's this for the London underground.
http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

Of course, for the UK it would be intersting if they showed both where the trains are, and where they are supposed to be...

[Vladki]

Live map for Czechia: http://www.cd.cz/mapa/
Live map for Slovakia: http://poloha.vlaky.net/

[Carl]

Fantastic! Interesting that the Slovak page has a minimap displaying some (mostly international) Czech services.

[rsdworker]

that's very intersting - simtrans could have simllar idea - timetabling so if trains are late - they show up on map that saying red train - late or green - on time

[alexbaettig]

In Switzerland there is this page: http://www.swisstrains.ch/
Unfortunately it has no longer the current timetable data...

[Emil Sawicki]

Map of Poland with almost all passenger trains: http://mapapkp.appspot.com/. By default, map is zoomed to my city. Some boxes, that describes trains, contains delay time.

All Regio trains (without Regios of some small operators): http://mapapociagow.pl/ .

[omikron]

The first of Emil's maps works also in Germany....

At least as far as Thuringia.

omikron

[omikron]

I am amazed, Emil. Your map actually works in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland too :-) Has Poland become the centre of Europe, where all train operations are monitored?

omikron

[prissi]

I am not sure if this uses information from cellphones? It works also for Berlin, even though the trains are several meters off the track ...

[omikron]

I suspect that its trains run in a straight line from station to station, thus not GPS at all... Maybe Emil can help us with the Polish description?

omikron

[prissi]

München S-Bahn has live informations ... as they use hafas, all deutsche Bahn should be covered; but aparently they just offer no interface to it.

http://s-bahn-muenchen.hafas.de/bin/help.exe/dn?tpl=livefahrplan

[AP]

It works also for Berlin, even though the trains are several meters off the track ...

It works for the UK as well (or at least, Birmingham/W Midlands as far south as Banbury, Manchester, but not London oddly). Also works for the Cotswold line, where two trains just crossed and a Bus is apparently heading for Chipping Norton from Kingham, and indeed everything west of Reading seems to work too.

The markers are a few miles off the nearest track, though, so it needs a bit of intuition to read. I get the impression it can't be all operators/services though (or else the Severn Beach line is completely devoid of trains...)

[Emil Sawicki]

Maybe Emil can help us with the Polish description?

Yes, I can translate some text for you.

[Junna]

In the Netherlands even the national railway does not know where their trains are at any moment of the day! 

http://kubus.mailspool.nl/spoorkaart/

This one also shows the supposed routes very neatly, and real-time delays.

[Combuijs]

Nice one, very nice!

I would like to know how this is working, because I don't think Dutch Railways is the source of the information. Maybe based on mobile phone information?

Thank you for the link. I will monitor the next few weeks how accurate it is!