ktylwoke train jumpscare
(there is only one of these afaik. it goes past my flat and i would really like to get a notification when it is nearby so i can cheat at a drinking game. how can i do this please someone get in touch)
Martin Gleadow@ktyl you want I believe details on 378205
I was hoping https://theprogresstrain.co.uk/trainbow-tracker/ would have details of how to find it, but no such luck
Unfortunately I don't think unit allocations are a matter of public record, so you'll have to find an enthusiast or someone with inside knowledge to tell you what diagrams it is working on a given day.
@mgleadow thanks Martin! unfortunately that's the answer I expected, so maybe the answer is an app that makes it super easy to report a time location, and try to automatically match it up to a service then send notifications that way. but that sounds hard. thanks for the link though, I didn't know about a lot of those other trainbows! (or, fwiw, even heard the term "trainbow", which i love)
@ktyl schedules are public record, so if someone wanted to (or maybe they already have) it's conceivable that given a time and location (and hopefully other info too like destination) a sighting could be matched to a service and over time it's likely diagram patterns could be spotted (e.g. 10:00 Gospel Oak to Barking always becomes 12:00 Barking to Gospel Oak. Times and patterns made up for illustration)
@mgleadow this sounds like a brilliant project idea that will definitely not consume a weekend i should spend studying.
@ktyl you want to start with the Network Rail Open Data feeds and parsing schedule information
https://wiki.openraildata.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
That'll give you planned services. Next step will be to listen to movement data for London Overground so you can see actual performance and tie that to reports