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Tracking a train?

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Is there anyway of following a train's diagram online for the day?

i.e. seeing where it started off, which routes it worked and where it stables for the night?
 
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Best thing I can think of is use Real Time Trains and pay close attention to platforms (actually used) and follow it's workings .isn't fool proof however as if multiple platform occupations occur might be difficult to track the right train .
 
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TBSchenker said:
Best thing I can think of is use Real Time Trains and pay close attention to platforms (actually used) and follow it's workings .isn't fool proof however as if multiple platform occupations occur might be difficult to track the right train .
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Platforms are not always shown as what has happened in practice especially if it is a change from the booked platform. As much as people, myself included, would like to see the workings there is nothing in the public domain. Many people seem to swear by Rail Time Trains but, as TBS said, it isn't fool proof and attempts to track can easily be thrown out.
 
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Things get complicated when trains begin to split and combine. Sometimes it's easy to follow what is happening, sometimes not. I know there is (or was) a DMU duty where a four-car set would arrive in one of the low-numbered platforms at Manchester Piccadilly and drop a two-car unit which would later be picked up by another two-car unit and taken to depot. That sort of thing can be impossible to follow on RTT, you just have to go out and witness it.
 
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With certain more unusual stuff, such as loco hauled services and HSTs there are usually diagrams that people have compiled and put online if you have search, more regular stuff, not really.
 
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higthomas said:
Pay someone to travel on it all day? :p
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One area that might be a problem, among others already mentioned, is if a unit does an empty stock run between two passenger workings. There are some Southeastern trains for example which early in the evening rush hour form an early train from a London terminal to X, run empty back to London in time to form a late rush hour service. It maybe possible though to chase such a working if another passenger service(s) can get you to its next working fast enough (either that or try and stowaway on it ;) ).
 
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