Mobile version
28th December 2008
m.traintimes.org.uk is now live. A very slimmed down version of the site, giving you quicker access to your usual bookmarked journeys on your mobile.
12th October 2008
I’ve added a few more stations to my vaguely live map of trains.
I've added bookmarkable timetable URLs for quick lookups. For example, http://traintimes.org.uk /manchester /edinburgh will give you the next trains from Manchester to Edinburgh. Adding a time, like http://traintimes.org.uk /cardiff /birmingham /8:00, gives you the timetable starting from there.
A full return journey is of the form http://traintimes.org.uk /london /leeds /10:00 /next-tuesday /16:00 /next-wednesday.
The time is departure time by default; add an “a” at the end for arrival time, or use “first” or “last” for first or last trains. For example, http://traintimes.org.uk /london /glasgow /first /tomorrow or http://traintimes.org.uk /sheffield /liverpool /11:00a.
You can put “/fares” at the end of any bookmarkable URL to go directly to the fares page for that journey. This will be slower than the non-fares lookup. For example http://traintimes.org.uk/cardiff/bristol/fares.
“/changes=N” at the end of a bookmarkable URL will restrict the results to N changes maximum, e.g. http://traintimes.org.uk /birmingham /manchester /changes=0.
Live trains map (requires JavaScript)
Ian Scott has made a Firefox bookmarklet.
— Matthew