Great Western Coffee Shop

The disruption map at the top of this page provides a quick look at where there are problems with GWR trains right across the South West and South Wales - a graphic form of Journey Check, and there's a link to Journey Check just below it.

Initially as an experiment ... I have added

Step 1 - click on the disruption map and you get a larger map showing all the network stations in th area

Step 2 - click on an individual station and you get a report from that station

Step 3 - select an individual trains to see how it's doing.

All from industry feeds / taking the best available for any particular station.

Let me know if this is any use and ideas.  I did have a possible idea of zooming the map that comes up at stage one, centering it based on where you click on the initial map, and adding in full station names.  Time constratints mean that would be an exercise for some time in the future though.

This looks useful.  I already get this by opening different web sites in turn so it is nice to see it on one place.

Can you add to the enhancement list the ability to save a specific station in browser favourites.  ie if I want to check Yattton I could open a favourite and not drill down from the main map.

I do love the way a whole set of web sites are appearing using the public train information feeds.

Can anything be done about the station codes being piled up in areas with many stations. It makes it almost impossible to bring up the information for a particular station when using touch screen devices.

Would this work for you?

It would.  :)

I read that in your OP and it went in one synapse and out another, before I replied. Apologies.

Many thanks for adding that enhanced feature to the Coffee Shop forum, grahame.  ;)

We obviously hope, however, that the initial map doesn't look quite as bad as this too often:

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/tle_s0.jpg)

 ::)

This is an excellent development, Graham thank you.  I just tried it out for curiosity and find that that the last* train from Yatton this evening is cancelled and the reason given is 'Planning Error'.  Without making the obvious jibe that this invites, I wonder if anyone can enlighten me as to what reasons might lie behind such an 'error'.

*Edit to correct: not the last train, just the last one to be shown when I first looked.

Historically, that's been where there hasn't been a drive rostered, or the driver rostered has been sent to the wrong place at the wrong time.  Could also apply to conductor or train.   What's behind it is an awful lot of complex planning, sometimes at very short notice indeed, which we very rarely hear about and usually works remarkably well.

No need, I have looked at the generated URL and it appears to link to the Tiger data feed which I have saved.

Not quite that straightforward - it uses Tiger where it's available and another source where it isn't.  I understand that more stations may become available via Tiger in the next year or so, and if so I'll update the data file.

Just a note, its not using Tiger for eg. Goring & Streatley (GOR), but that is available on TIGER:

http://iris2.rail.co.uk/tiger/renderstaffsoad.asp?file=30508E.xml

I suspect that's because it's one of those posh places with an "&" in its name.   Now switched to Tiger, & I need to look at Windsor & Eton, & a few others.