National Rail (UK)

by Jon Reades

The National Rail Widget will help you keep track of arrivals and departures (in real time) to/from any station covered by the www.nationalrail.co.uk Web site.

The Widget will automatically refresh itself every 10 minutes, but you can force a refresh by clicking on the text "Refresh Trains". This refresh cannot exceed once every two minutes by request of the RTTI web site admins.

To find your station, click on "Lookup Station" and use the drop-downs to navigate to the right More
Current Version: 2.2

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  1. Harry Whitfield.
    March 14, 2005 · version 2.0 Harry Whitfield.
    Looks like National Rail has changed things again. Manchester Piccadilly doesn't show any arrivals or departures and station selection has stopped working.

  2. jreades
    February 16, 2005 · version 1.6 jreades
    Looks like National Rail has made a small change to the formatting of the station departure/arrivals page. Since the widget is basically a screen-scraper, this has caused the patterns that match departure blocks to fail.

    Remember: you can always use the "View Page" link at the bottom of the widget to jump straight to the arrivals/departure page while you're waiting for my mix. It's a glorified bookmark, I suppose. ;)

    I've put together a patch but need to test it, since More

  3. Paul
    February 15, 2005 · version 1.6 Paul
    Departures has stopped for me too - but otherwise got to be the best Widget

  4. PhastPhrog
    February 13, 2005 · version 1.6 PhastPhrog
    Excellent widget!
    Or was rather... :-) Now I'm finding that the 'Departures' tab gives me an empty list . 'Arrivals' still works tho'. Any ideas ? This seems to have broken in the past 5 days or so.

  5. jreades
    January 10, 2005 · version 1.6 jreades
    In my to-do list cont'd cont'd :) :

    3. A PC version -- until I can go back to using Konfab's own URL method I won't be releasing a PC version since few people will have Perl and curl installed on a PC. If I can make the runCommandInBg() work then I will see if that route results in a PC-friendly widget.

    4. If I get the PC version working then I'll probably have to look at further restrictions on how often the widget updates the train times. The probable solution will b More

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