GBTT.uk - National Rail timetable website

[miklcct]

After the discussion earlier this year about making a bustimes.org clone for the railway, I have now made a site to achieve the goal mentioned there. As it's no longer speculative and I have to post promotional materials, I'm opening a new thread for my site.

The live site is located at https://gbtt.uk/ , which now has a map view to choose a station as well as the traditional input form. There are departure board and timetable views.

This site is intended to be an easier-to-use alternative to BR Times, the rail version of bustimes.org and a digital equivalent of PDF timetables.

A timetable view looks like the following:


A departure view looks like the following:


If a time is specified, or a link of connection time is followed, they will be labelled red / green for invalid / valid connections.

Clicking on the departure time will show a service detail page, which has the train schedule and also the map as well. Request stops are shown using a special symbol.



This website can handle trains with multiple portions correctly when showing timetables and filtering calling points.

I am looking for feedback of my website. Please reply for comments, or if it is a defect, open a bug report on Github as well.

 

[D6975]

I find that 05x59 for a request stop looks better than 05:59x as the latter causes a kink in the columns.

 

[The Planner]

Headcodes are shown as 4 digit numbers, they arent headcodes.

 

[miklcct]

Headcodes are shown as 4 digit numbers, they arent headcodes.

Headcodes are normally 2-digit or 4-digit numbers (for example, in South Western Railway, 2-digit numbers are the former Southern Region route code and the 4-digit numbers are used to form part of the RSID). The same information can be found on Realtime Trains as well.

 

[blackfive460]

Show permanent timetable instead of actual timetable

I'm far from clear what that means!

 

[Wychwood93]

Headcodes are normally 2-digit or 4-digit numbers (for example, in South Western Railway, 2-digit numbers are the former Southern Region route code and the 4-digit numbers are used to form part of the RSID). The same information can be found on Realtime Trains as well.

As #The Planner said - headcodes as seen within the industry are along the lines of 1B08 - i.e what the signallers etc. see/are aware of. The numbers you refer to do exist - have a look at Traksy or Open Train Times and the headcodes are as I mentioned. You have been told this before IIRC.

 

[SteveyBee131]

I'm not an expert, but I know that what a number of us call the "headcode" is not officially known by that title, certainly not these days anyway. The train description (1B65, 2L79 etc) what used to be on the front of many trains pre-1976, was known as the headcode back then. But in these modern times, headcode are very different, not all trains have them, and many can have the same one. From what I understand, the headcode these days is more likely to help planners get the right catering provision on the right train (amongst other things) than tell control the whereabouts of a specific train on a signalbox screen.

Now back to the subject of the thread, gbtt.uk , so far I like it, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops.