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European open data sources for real time train running?

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Suggestions please for any equivalent sites to Realtime Trains for;

Netherlands
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
Hungary
Czech Republic
France
 
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I am not sure there are many (even any?) equivalents on the European mainland - it's fairly easy to get passenger times through the relevant national rail websites, but that's all.
OeBB, SBB have Zugradar and CD an equivalent (the DBnetze Zugradar isn't free).
 

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Where open source information is available, in theory the makers of realtimetrains.co.uk could make versions for other countries.
 

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For Holland the "NL Train Navigator" App is very useful for times, it reflects engineering works and has the added benefit of showing formations in picture form with unit numbers in many cases. The MAV App for Hungary is similar and has loco and unit numbers after the train starts moving. The Belgian App is listed as "National" with their logo and is up to date with engineering works and real time reporting and also tends to show on the day alterations, such as extras to the coast on busy days.
 

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For the Netherlands, treinposities.nl is a rather good site. It shows realtime train movements on the Dutch passenger network, coming from a mixture of trackside sensors and GPS data sent by the trains.

However, it doesn't come close to RTT. There's no information about ECS workings, freight trains, or the state of the signalling system (like Traksy has, for example). That's because the data simply isn't publicly available.
 

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This looks nice, but in practice the map part of it isn't great. I live beside a reasonably busy line and when a train passes it's usually shown as being about 5 km further back on the route. The timetable part seems to come from the source that supplies station displays and is probably fairly accurate. But it only shows scheduled stop data so nowhere near as detailed as realtimetrains.
 

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I've had a look at this and can't see how to use it to find actual/recent times. Am I missing something obvious

I think it just describes how you can get to the data - what we need is a list of sites that actually use the data to provide something meaningful.
 

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Suggestions please for any equivalent sites to Realtime Trains for ...

Finland:

VR provides "Junat Kartalla" (trains on a map): https://junatkartalla.vr.fi/?lang=en-US but does not show freight nor the Helsinki are commuter trains, only the long distance passenger.

The Android app shows everything.

Then there's then real-time open data feed which the "Julia" site uses and this really does contain everything: https://juliadata.fi/map/view?mode=trains#9.12/60.3573/24.8665 including analysis of train speeds, which tracks used, the train configuration etc etc etc..and then some more!
 

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I’m surprised there hasn’t been mention of the Hungarian MÁV app which has a map showing train movements. Not only that, click on the icon on the map and it’ll tell you the loco/unit number (where it is fitted with the necessary transponder).

For instance, I can see that currently train 934 Budapest-Sopron is approaching Komarno at 118km/h and is hauled by 470501.
 
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