We are happy to announce that we recently updated the data feed for River Bus Live Arrivals. The data is now more accurate, as it uses departure rather than arrival times. We have also increased the time window from 30 to 60 minutes and added Naptan code for each destination.
As part of this change, some fields in the APIs listed below are no longer populated for river buses, although most of this information is now available in different fields or can be inferred.
The data in my app looks much more complete nowâŚRTI but I guess I need to rework on the DestinationsâŚ
Which was deleting three lines from my code, so looks great now, thanks for this itâs a great thing to have data for as I personally love a cheap river cruise (and I wonât let on a how good the Expressos are)
@JakubGasiorowski Yes⌠my client was very keen for the river buses to be included and so I did all the hard config work to make it work - and it drops back to the timetable if the live system goes away can show the River Bus âRainbow Boardâ if everything else fails!
I realised some positioning problems on the Riverbus, as for Millbank Pier i can see RB1 services to Westminster serving this stop, but that canât be right as Millbank is beyond westminster. till then i grabbed the Vehicle ID to see the which order this service was calling at which starts from Canary Wharf to Millbank and then London Bridge and so on. I see no arrivals at Tower Pier but i have included images regarding this. I would of imagine it would be the same thing towards Woolwich Pier.
@JakubGasiorowski,
I just realised that the arrival information for Tower Pier and Millbank Pier are incorrect and really the information showing at Millbank should actually be Tower Pier and what Tower pier is showing currently is what it should be for Millbank Pier.
Also looking at Embankment Pier. i see services going towards Greenwich and Woolwich serving Platform Outbound except RB1 services to Woolwich serving inbound platform. iâm not sure if this a terminus for RB1.
Here is a image
For instance, Looking at Tower Pier on vehicle ID 2668 will arrive at 15:17
then london bridge 2668 will arrive 14:55
and then lastly Milbank 2668 will arive 14:51
Any status on this?
iâve just noticed that the last Countdown feed data we had for Riverbus services was the 30th June 2022. Was this a planned withdrawal of this data from the Countdown feed and if so, was there any formal communication prior to it?
(Obviously none of our users used it as none have complained! )
We only included the River Bus data as it was in the Countdown feed. TBH I donât think our core user base could care less about it! (and the fact they picked up on an N38 being reported in the data as going to âTrafalgar Squareâ last night but in six months havenât raised one query about the lack of river bus data kinda proves it.)
From my personal observations (rather than actual data) the RB services are mainly used to visitors, rather than commuters. Itâs a great way of getting around if you want to go to the Southbank, London Eye and Greenwich Maritime areas, but itâs never quite the best way to the O2, Tower Bridge, Westminster and Battersea Power Station.
Oddly, the service that would make the most sense to have as a high-frequency one: Barking Riverside Pier to Thamesmead doesnât exist and the Barking Riverside Pier to Woolwich (Royal Arsenal) is not very frequent but is 9 minutes on a boat compared an hour+ by
Barking Riverside to Woodgrange Park Overground
Woodgrange Park to Manor Park walk (OSI)
Manor Park to Stratford Liz Line
Stratford DLR to Woolwich Arsenal DLR
or
Barking Riverside to Barking Overground
Barking to West Ham (c2c)
West Ham DLR to Woolwich Arsenal DLR
But the RB1 only runs this far out in peak and not at a very high frequency.