UK Trains
Disruption alerts for UK train services by Twitter
Inspired by this tweet from MP Tom Watson and enabled by the excellent BBC Backstage and their travel feeds, this service tweets disruption alerts for 25 UK train operators. The original data, collected and published by the BBC, is processed by Yahoo Pipes and tweeted via Twitterfeed. Tweetlater provides the automated welcome DM.
@uktrains - Alerts for services from all 25 companies below.
For alerts limited to the operators that interest you follow individual rail operator(s) from the list below:
I built this in the hope it would be useful to people like me who regularly commute by train and would like an easy way to be alerted to delays and disruption and to highlight that National Rail Enquiries - the people who ought to be making this information easilly available to you - prevent even non-commercial re-use in their T&Cs, prefering to charge you 25 pence per delayed train via SMS.
For any questions, suggestions, requests, complaints or kind words please contact me @bensmithuk.
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