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by mwagstaff 237 days ago
Very nice! I've also used the Rail Data Marketplace (terrible name) to build an app that uses the live departure board data (https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/traintrack-uk/id6504205950), and it's great the data is freely available.

Whilst HN is on the case, does anyone know of an API (inside Rail Data Marketplace or elsewhere) that acts as a journey planner for UK national rail, i.e. you can input source + destination stations and it will output journey options?
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ashfn 237 days ago
It looks like TFL's journey planner API has the ability to do some of these national rail trips, only tested a few though
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mwagstaff 237 days ago
Unfortunately, I believe it's limited to TfL stations only (e.g. Overground) rather than National Rail.

Oh, and I should have mentioned that I'm also aware of this, but it's not free so automatically outside of my app development budget. :/

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/developers/online-journey-pla...

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ashfn 237 days ago
I tried a route from a London tube station to Newcastle train station and it found one on the frontend for the tool so I think it may support national rail
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