 A Google map mashup displays live tube train movements on London's underground ...
It's like having your own train set! Except that we're talking about slightly more workaday tube trains beetling through tunnels, rather than Pullman coaches gliding through the Sussex countryside.
But it's all overlaid on Google's ubiquitous maps, with yellow pins shuffling along a network that realistically resembles the 1908 by the Underground Electric Railways Company map rather than Harry Beck's stylised version we know today.
Using live departure data is fetched from the Transport for London's API, we see tube lines, train numbers and expected arrival times at the next stop by clicking on the pins.
The whole thing was put together, amazingly, in a few hours by coder Matthew Somerville.
Fascinating, if you're the equivalent of the underground Fat Controller. Find the live tube map at http://traintimes.org.uk:81/map/tube/.
More useful is Matthew's Accessible UK Train Timetables and a "vaguely live" map of national mainline trains, all at http://traintimes.org.uk/.
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