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iPhone app · live rail

Train Departures

Every train in mainland Britain, live in your pocket.

  • Every mainland station
  • Live map
  • No account needed

The idea

The railway already broadcasts everything — departures, delays, platform changes, cancellations, across the whole network. Getting at it shouldn't take three apps and a refresh habit.

Train Departures is Turret's own product: the live railway, the way you'd want it at the end of a platform.

Highlights

  • Live departure boards

    Every calling point, platform, delay and cancellation, the moment it changes. Up to four favourite stations, swiped like a stack of boards.

  • A live map of every train

    The whole mainland network, moving in real time. Follow one service, or pull back and watch the rush hour.

  • Watches & alerts

    Long-press a train to watch it. Delays, platform changes and cancellations arrive on the Lock Screen.

  • Share a journey

    Send any live train as a link. It opens in a browser and follows the journey in real time. No app needed.

  • Journey planner

    From, to, when. Every service that gets you there, with changes and connection times made plain.

  • Weather-matched scenes

    Each train's card sits on artwork matching the live weather and time of day where that train actually is.

Outcome

Turret's own build, run as a live service. The iPhone app is on its way to the App Store; the site — and every journey shared from the app — is live in the browser today.

Try it

A live preview: the same site running, embedded here. Tap, scroll, poke around.

Train Departuresrunning for real, in a mobile viewport. This isn't a screenshot. It's the live site.

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