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Another train tracker site 12 May 2012 10:36 #1

Peter Bennet NOW ONLINE Administrator Posts: 2525 Thank you received: 334	Just been directed to this site but have not made any compare and contrast with earlier examples. Whether better or worse of even a reincarnation of one of them I don't know. Peter
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Re: Another train tacker site 12 May 2012 10:55 #2

Stephen Fulcher OFFLINE Local Operations Manager Posts: 628 Thank you received: 113	Peter, the link does not work. Thanks -Fixed - Peter
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Re: Another train tacker site 12 May 2012 12:46 #3

Stanyon OFFLINE Trainee signaller Posts: 50 Thank you received: 4	this site has now also stopped showing freight/charters an explanation here: blog.opentraintimes.com/
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Re: Another train tacker site 12 May 2012 13:54 #4

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This is actually a rather mad situation!

Did anyone from NR or the FOCs actually complain about the freight times being on there?

The informations is obviously fairly easy to obtain as these two individuals have the capability to do it, so they cannot have that much of a problem with it. I actually work for the railway and I found these sites to be useful to plan when I would try and do a particular job on the track in a particular place, without having to harrass Signallers all the time as to where trains were.

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Re: Another train tracker site 12 May 2012 14:30 #5

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Peter Bennet wrote:

Just been directed to this site but have not made any compare and contrast with earlier examples. Whether better or worse of even a reincarnation of one of them I don't know.

Peter

On this one you're able to show the whole day at a particular location on one page as an overview (rather than having to keep clicking later) and also able to filter the results by TOC

Sort of on the same topic does anyone know if there is anywhere online to search timetables from previous year's WTT?

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Re: Another train tracker site 12 May 2012 20:52 #6

Nutter OFFLINE Tea Boy/Girl Posts: 8	Wow. I never knew websites like these existed to thank you. Are the red trains the ones that are cancelled? Is there a key for those learning or anything? Many thanks Mark
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Re: Another train tracker site 13 May 2012 09:32 #7

Steamer NOW ONLINE Local Operations Manager Posts: 544 Thank you received: 155	The red trains appear to be ones running to a VAR schedule instead of a WTT schedule. VAR schedules are temporary, but I don't know the exact definition.
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Re: Another train tracker site 13 May 2012 12:04 #8

hotwellian OFFLINE Trainee signaller Posts: 58 Thank you received: 1	www.goingloco.org/forum/knowledge/kb_show.php?id=25 says: VAR = a WTT working running to a slightly different schedule I don't know if this is correct
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Re: Another train tracker site 13 May 2012 14:25 #9

Mooson OFFLINE Tea Boy/Girl Posts: 2	That is correct. As when slightly amended due to engineering work or other reasons, but is still the same train.
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Re: Another train tracker site 14 May 2012 18:24 #10

GoodbyeMrFish OFFLINE Signaller Posts: 133 Thank you received: 20	STP's in the schedule are the tmporary ones, It stands for Short term planning. All of these pretty much run when they are added to timetables charters go down as an stp schedule, Test trains do too.
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