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[trainmania100]

I'm not sure I've ever seen an off booked route update in the feed. It's possible they've dropped out of use now that there are multiple other reporting systems in place.

The next report stanox / timestamp is in the 0003 messages I think, and if it's empty it suggests the train is off route. At least that's how I think it is. According to the open data wiki there's also a offroute_ind in the reports

Wouldn't look too good in a timetable like this but I guess it depends how you do it

0900 Gatwick airport booked
0904 Three bridges booked
???? Crawley off route 0907
???? Faygate off route 0910
0906 balcombe tunnel junction booked

 

[Class15]

Yes, Railcam does off route stuff. It’s very useful, and it would be good to see other websites deploy the same approach. See this.

Image shows Railcam data of a diverted service, showing ‘off route’ at a location it was not booked to pass and no reports at locations it was diverted away from.

 

[takno]

The next report stanox / timestamp is in the 0003 messages I think, and if it's empty it suggests the train is off route. At least that's how I think it is. According to the open data wiki there's also a offroute_ind in the reports

Wouldn't look too good in a timetable like this but I guess it depends how you do it

0900 Gatwick airport booked
0904 Three bridges booked
???? Crawley off route 0907
???? Faygate off route 0910
0906 balcombe tunnel junction booked

The ability is there to represent them, I'm just suggesting that I've never seen it populated. To be fair I do need to rewrite Traksy's consumer at some point - it throws away quite a lot of data which would potentially be quite useful, and it wouldn't 100% surprise me if one of those things was off-route messages.

 

[Tom]

As I think I’ve indicated before in this thread, we have plans on how to handle off route messages. We are now a lot less busy than we have been for a while, so have more capacity for this. We are planning a major update to RTT in about 6-8 weeks which will start the ground work for this to be released.