Live Real Time Trains Website

Rail Times Live Map

First click on the map tab button top right.

Next screen that opens is the map menu screen. Here you can either type in your chosen location as shown here in the location box. Or choose from the list below the location box a section area of each railway route(s).

Here we’ll select the London & East region.

Having selected the region area you now have a choice of what section of the route you want to look at. Here we select the area from the south to the north of York.

The map for the chosen select now appears. The map can be moved or scrolled both left & right ways as shown with the orange arrows. Here we are at the southern end of this map section. A simplified diagram of the track work, with signals showing at clear or at danger. Also, the trains are shown in the black boxes as a code (letters & numbers) in either yellow or white. As the trains progress along the route, you’ll see the train code move along to the next black box thus were able to track its journey.

So scrolling the map to the right we come across York station. The platform is the area marked in green complete with platform numbers. Here you can see a number of trains in & around the station area.

Let us take a look at one of the trains shown on the map. The ones are shown in yellow you won’t be able to open though there is another way to do that. The trains are shown in white you can open by simply clicking on the white train code number, as marked in the orange box right.

This what you’ll see when you click & open up the white train code number.

• The route & service the train is on.
• The train operator.
• Type of Train.
• Stations & locations the train calls at/passes along its route.
• Timings for each section of the route.
• If it’s running to time or running late.
• How time it’s early or late by.
• What path it’s booked to run on ie: fast line, slow line etc.
• Train technical information.

So if your following say a special charter train, you’ll be able to track its progress & give you time to get set up to film or photograph it.

So starting from the home page of the website, start to type in the station or location you require. After typing in three letters a box appears with a selection of locations to choose from. We’re going with Doncaster for this example.

 So as you can see anything that starts with DON starts to appear in the menu box.

 Here we select Doncaster station from the list in the box. Click on it & it highlights grey & then proceeds to bring up the live page for Doncaster station.

You now see the live page for Doncaster station within the time & date you’ve selected. If you haven’t selected a time or date, it’ll go to the current time & day as default. The page lists all workings from passenger, freight, charters, empty stock moves & other workings. It also shows the working timetable as well as the actual timetableble, other things such as cancelled workings too which is handy, so no waiting line side wondering if a particular train is going to turn up or not!

For those of you who have an interest in freight workings, these are also shown in detail too. Though ones marked with a padlock won’t show technical details of that particular train, just timings & route.

Let us take a look at one such freight working highlighted on the right.

So clicking on the highlighted working now opens up the page for that train working. Here we see it’s a service operated by GBRF form Middleton Towers to Barnby Dunn & the glass factory. You’ll notice we’ve highlighted the technical details tab. Click on this gives more information about the train in question.

 Here it gives more details about the type of train, weight & so on.