Chiltern Railways Trains

[Weezer]

At http://cloud.tfl.gov.uk/TrackerNet/predictiondetailed/M/RKY for example, northbound Chiltern line trains show the destination of the train, e.g. Aylesbury or Aylesbury Vale Parkway. Yet, for some reason southbound trains show ‘Chiltern Trains’ as the destination.

Given that the northbound destination is derived from the DARWIN feed I believe, why can’t southbound trains return ‘London Marylebone’ or the timetabled destination of the train from the DARWIN feed in the ‘Destination’ tag as well?

[briantist]

@Weezer

Yes, indeed…

Inconsistant TfL and NRE data at Amersham, Chalfont & Latimer, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth and Harrow on the Hill

There are several places in and around London where Transport for London services and National Rail trains share rails and platforms. However, the way these work in inconstant. Firstly, the London Overground which has a “core section” of TfL stations and rails (Whitechapel to New Cross and New Cross Gate). All of these train services are 100% mapped into NRE Darwin so API users can get full details of these trains. This means they have pre-day timetables, and then per-second running data. S…

The worst thing is that they show the same useless information on the indicators at the station too.

[briantist]

@Weezer

Aylesbury

It interesting that if you look Darwin AND TrackerNet you get the whole picture, such as here …

So it’s not THAT hard to match up the services to get the whole picture.