RealTimeTrains notification.

[ADHDTog]

Hi guys,

Is there anyway of getting notifications from RTT? I'd like to get notifications if a service is added to the schedule that fulfills certain criteria.

For example: freight service through Bidston, or West Coast Railways through Lea Green.

It doesn't have to be on RTT itself, but could be a service like IFTTT. I'm fed up of missing interesting/unusual services.
Cheers!

EDIT: thanks to the mod who moved this thread to the right section!

 

[Bill57p9]

RTT does offer an API which would allow you to write your own such service if you were that way inclined and have a web facing machine to do the processing.

 

[ADHDTog]

Thatnks for the heads up, alas that's beyond my technical expertise as a healthcare worker!

 

[fishwomp]

Thatnks for the heads up, alas that's beyond my technical expertise as a healthcare worker!

I wrote something to do this - I had no luck getting API access from RTT (did others have any joy?) so went straight to the Network Rail data API. I get a message every morning for TIPLOCs I care about with the "STP" workings for the day. It's been handy for a number of unexpected railtours, light engine workings and branch line trackwork.

If anyone with the 'technical expertise' is interested (AWS Lambda/Python) I'm happy to share - but I am also happy to figure out how to make this work for others more easily if there's interest.

 

[03_179]

Rail Record does have a email feature linked to it