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Old July 21st 20, 08:58 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default No black LEDs?

On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 20:11:15 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 20/07/2020 08:48, wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 01:09:02 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
I recently spotted Geoff Marshall's unboxing of this live animated LED Tube


map, which shows all LU train movements in real time. Trains on 12 lines
are represented with 333 appropriately coloured station LEDs, but how do
you represent Northern Line trains? Yup, in white.

Just the thing for a Tube nerd with £249 to spare! An ideal present for


someone who grew up in London but now lives in exile.

https://www.traintrackr.co.uk/product/tfl2

Looks to me like it only shows trains in stations, not all trains on the

line.

I'd be interested in knowing where it gets its info from. Is it a public
API anyone can connect to or is it paid subscription included in the price
of the board that will eventually run out.


https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/?


Is that for real? Many trains seem to be running cross country, running in
close formation, suddenly reversing half-way along a route, and generally
running too fast.


I doubt the API updates nearly that quickly so I suspect there's a lot of
extrapolation going on.