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Author: Tom AndersonTom Anderson Date: Oct 2, 2006 14:16
[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/
But very interesting nonetheless. We were talking about this ages ago; i
even started writing a program to calculate isochrones, but these chaps
have beaten me to it (again).
tom
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Author: Dave ArquatiDave Arquati Date: Oct 5, 2006 11:54
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/
>
> But very interesting nonetheless. We were talking about this ages ago; i
> even started writing a program to calculate isochrones, but these chaps
> have beaten me to it (again).
You can get one developed by the DfT if you have several grand to spare...
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Date: Oct 5, 2006 15:51
In uk.railway Tom Anderson wrote:
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Author: Brian WatsonBrian Watson Date: Oct 5, 2006 22:43
> In uk.railway Tom Anderson wrote:
Very nice. Thank you for that.
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Author: PhilDPhilD Date: Oct 6, 2006 00:22
Theo Markettos wrote:
Ugh, what a mess at Paddington. Nice idea, though.
PhilD
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Author: Sam WilsonSam Wilson Date: Oct 6, 2006 02:50
> In uk.railway Tom Anderson wrote:
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...
Sam
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Author: Sam WilsonSam Wilson Date: Oct 6, 2006 02:53
> In uk.railway Tom Anderson wrote:
Aha - belay that - I've spotted how it works now. Rather limited set of
stations, though.
Sam
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Date: Oct 8, 2006 04:19
In uk.railway 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. 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 an interesting way of visualising engineering works. At a
glance I can see today:
No trains west of Truro
No trains north of Ely
Euston only has a DC lines service
Brighton-London trains diverted via Horsham/bus to Haywards Heath
(and amusingly the map is getting Berwick, E. Sussex and Berwick-upon-Tweed
confused)
...which is quite neat.
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Author: Matthew SomervilleMatthew Somerville Date: Oct 8, 2006 08:04
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.
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