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Old September 11th 05, 01:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default More Tube lines now have live ETA boards

Neil Williams wrote:
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A WAP and/or SMS version of the planner would also be nice, if one
doesn't already exist - though admittedly this would be useless on
tunnel sections.


Both TfL and National Rail have had WAP sites for some time, and both
offer a WAP version of their journey planner whilst you can also get
access to National Rail's Live Departure Boards (LDB) on their WAP
site. The Tube's ETA Boards are also available as WAP pages (see the
original post in this thread).

I've particularly found the National Rail LDBs and very useful whilst
out and about, and the TfL Journey Planner has come in handy too.

Full URL's are below. However some users may find it easier to get to
these services through their networks WAP portal (e.g. through Orange
World, 02 Active, t-zones or Vodafone Live). Depending on how you're
charged for accessing WAP sites, it may be cheaper to do it this way as
well (as I think some networks won't charge you for accessing pages
through their portal).

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TfL WAP site
http://wap.tfl.gov.uk/

TfL Tube ETA Boards WAP version
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/wap/eta/

National Rail WAP site
http://wap.nationalrail.co.uk/

There's also an URL for a PDA version of the TfL site, though as I
don't have a PDA I've never used it.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/pda/

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This webpage will give you an overview of TfL's services for mobile
users:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/mobile/

....and this page gives examples of the services offered (including an
SMS journey planner service):
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/mobile/mob...p?cnt=examples

This National Rail webpage gives an overview of their mobile services:
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/passen...o_on_the_move/