"Mizter T" wrote in message
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On May 24, 12:33 pm, Paul Corfield wrote:
Hooray, hooray - Overground and DLR have been added to the Tube Real
Time map. If there is a delay or a closure then the line is
highlighted.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravel...e/default.html

Also works for weekend engineering works.

At last!

Disruption on the Overground routes did (and still does) appear on an
alternative real time map - if you click on the "Rail" tab of the
"Live travel news" pages then click on the "Show on Tube map" link you
get this (which is I think a legacy/hangover from a previous
incarnation of the TfL website, if memory serves me right):
http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/im/RD-T.html

Why London Overground (LO) info never appeared on the main real time
map when it did on this one is a bit of a mystery, especially given
that the greyed-out outline of the LO routes has appeared on that map
for, well, a few years now - how many people did this lull into
thinking that the LO network was fine when it wasn't?!

That said, I note that the legacy real time map I mentioned above is
currently only highlighting the lengthy closure of the NLL east of
Gospel Oak, whilst the main (new) version is currently showing the
suspension of the NLL west of Gospel Oak and of the WLL as far south
as Shepherd's Bush "due to a fire alert at Harlesden" - though that
info itself seems pretty suspect given that the LO JourneyCheck page
says services are "disrupted due to national grid power failure in the
Willesden area", which corresponds with other reports on uk.railway.
(Willesden Jn of course being located in Harlesden rather than
Willesden!)

Anyway enough criticism of times past - good stuff that this has
finally happened - though they might want to work on the accuracy of
the explanations. (Unless there is a fire?)

If anyone here uses Vista sidebar or Win7 desktop gadgets, there's a useful
little jobbie here...
http://www.thomthom.net/blog/2008/04...ebar-changelog
....that takes a feed from the page and displays a list of the lines with any
disrupted ones highlighted in orange, clicking on a highlighted line
produces a flyout with details of the disruption.
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Cheers, Steve.
Change jealous to sad to reply.