Traksy Website

[takno]

All sorted now. It was a bad connection to the feed - the team of tech industry professionals Network Rail contract to effectively manage the open data feed did some improvements last week, which may be a good thing longer term, but could conceivably not agree with my code. Certainly whatever happened we were still connected but only getting a single update every 30 seconds or so, which is just enough to prevent the alerting system from telling us there's a problem, but completely useless for making the site work.

Hopefully I should get the chance to have a look at it this weekend and see if there's anything I can do to make it identify issues and reconnect more reliably.

Probably worth adding that there was another significant outage this week when Digital Ocean, who provide the Traksy servers, fell apart completely for a number of hours. This kind of issue is much rarer, and in fact I think that may be the first time they've had issues for more than about 10 minutes in the entire time the site has been running.

 

[Welshguy1048]

All sorted now. It was a bad connection to the feed - the team of tech industry professionals Network Rail contract to effectively manage the open data feed did some improvements last week, which may be a good thing longer term, but could conceivably not agree with my code. Certainly whatever happened we were still connected but only getting a single update every 30 seconds or so, which is just enough to prevent the alerting system from telling us there's a problem, but completely useless for making the site work.

Hopefully I should get the chance to have a look at it this weekend and see if there's anything I can do to make it identify issues and reconnect more reliably.

Probably worth adding that there was another significant outage this week when Digital Ocean, who provide the Traksy servers, fell apart completely for a number of hours. This kind of issue is much rarer, and in fact I think that may be the first time they've had issues for more than about 10 minutes in the entire time the site has been running.

Thank you for replying.

You have a great website.

I use it regularly.

Dave

 

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Thanks @takno

 

[yorksrob]

All sorted now. It was a bad connection to the feed - the team of tech industry professionals Network Rail contract to effectively manage the open data feed did some improvements last week, which may be a good thing longer term, but could conceivably not agree with my code. Certainly whatever happened we were still connected but only getting a single update every 30 seconds or so, which is just enough to prevent the alerting system from telling us there's a problem, but completely useless for making the site work.

Hopefully I should get the chance to have a look at it this weekend and see if there's anything I can do to make it identify issues and reconnect more reliably.

Probably worth adding that there was another significant outage this week when Digital Ocean, who provide the Traksy servers, fell apart completely for a number of hours. This kind of issue is much rarer, and in fact I think that may be the first time they've had issues for more than about 10 minutes in the entire time the site has been running.

Thank you !

Glad it's back. An excellent website that I find useful a lot of the time.

 

[Basil Jet]

Glad it's back. An excellent website that I find useful a lot of the time.

Seconded!

Incidentally, the link from the Crouch Hill screen to the Harringay ECML screen isn't working, and the main page gives "[email protected]" as an email address which seems to be incorrect.

 

[takno]

Seconded!

Incidentally, the link from the Crouch Hill screen to the Harringay ECML screen isn't working, and the main page gives "[email protected]" as an email address which seems to be incorrect.

[email protected] is correct. Are you having issues sending email to it?

It would be useful to have an email report of things like broken links - it's pretty easy to rip through a dozen of them when I get a free hour, but only if I have them in one place...

 

[Western 52]

You can see some amusing things on Traksy now and again, such as these recent examples from East Usk Junction! These berths have also shown TREE and WEED recently as well.

 

[rick pike]

You can see some amusing things on Traksy now and again, such as these recent examples from East Usk Junction! These berths have also shown TREE and WEED recently as well.

FLUD and WATR in different blocks are two that spring to mind from earlier this year in the Yorkshire area during some line closures due to been under water.

 

[Incogcyclist79]

FLUD and WATR in different blocks are two that spring to mind from earlier this year in the Yorkshire area during some line closures due to been under water.

I noticed these two from Bathampton Junction. All I can say is that the signaller must be a fan of these two bands!

 

[Western 52]

I noticed these two from Bathampton Junction. All I can say is that the signaller must be a fan of these two bands!

East Usk again! Maybe shouldn't comment on todays offering!

 

[mlb54]

Looks like there is an issue with the Peterborough area on Traksy/OTT since York ROC took over. The trains on the maps are from last Tuesday. I have posted a message to both but no response yet.

 

[Stampy]

Looks like there is an issue with the Peterborough area on Traksy/OTT since York ROC took over. The trains on the maps are from last Tuesday. I have posted a message to both but no response yet.

I've noticed this too...

However the ones on Signalmaps seem to be working OK...

 

[TheBigD]

Been like it since Tuesday morning. Was fine on the Monday after the move from P'boro control to York control, and stopped working around 1030 on the Tuesday.

 

[Freightmaster]

I've noticed this too...

However the ones on Signalmaps seem to be working OK...

...and Freightmaster/Railcam!

I think it's simply down to time constraints - it took me almost six hours last Monday
to fully update and test the Freightmaster 'Realtime Map' for Peterborough, but I can
afford to do that because Freightmaster is my full time job.





MARK

 

[takno]

I wasn't aware it had gone ahead tbh, although it looks like I did get your messages on Tuesday I was back from a couple of weeks away and rushing around like nobody's business last week. I'll try to get to them in the next couple of days, assuming it's just a recontrol rather than anything more dramatic.

Looks like I have access to the S-class mappings as well, so hopefully should be able to get signal aspects and routes on there, although that will likely take a bit longer

 

[Goldfish62]

It's the same with Feltham. Also on opentraintimes.

 

[takno]

It's the same with Feltham. Also on opentraintimes.

Has Feltham fully transferred over now? I can probably get that done as well, although I'll need to copy that across two maps, and in a couple of places it's involved pretty extensive changes, which is more of a challenge.

 

[Goldfish62]

Has Feltham fully transferred over now? I can probably get that done as well, although I'll need to copy that across two maps, and in a couple of places it's involved pretty extensive changes, which is more of a challenge.

Yes indeed. Happened overnight 1/2 Sept.

Agreed, quite a lot of changes!

 

[Freightmaster]

I wasn't aware it had gone ahead tbh, although it looks like I did get your messages on Tuesday I was back from a couple of weeks away and rushing around like nobody's business last week. I'll try to get to them in the next couple of days, assuming it's just a recontrol rather than anything more dramatic.

Just a straight recontrol of all the signals from Sandy to Stoke summit - no changes to the track layout
or additional/resited/renumbered signals whatsoever.




MARK

 

[takno]

Just a straight recontrol of all the signals from Sandy to Stoke summit - no changes to the track layout
or additional/resited/renumbered signals whatsoever.

Hmm. Might even be able to get away with doing a search and replace in a text editor

 

[louis97]

Just a straight recontrol of all the signals from Sandy to Stoke summit - no changes to the track layout
or additional/resited/renumbered signals whatsoever.




MARK

A couple of berth numbers changed in the Peterborough area towards March and there was a minor change at the fringe with Doncaster at Stoke Junction on the down.

 

[SouthStand]

Slightly off-topic, but why does Open Train Times only show journey information for some head codes and not all? And even the ones it does show are often wrong.

 

[takno]

Peterborough should now all be done. It was extremely quick with the tips on how little had changed. Will still need to do the routes and aspects, but since they weren't in place for the old box at all they should be able to safely wait for another week.

I've also taken a look at Feltham with the hour I've saved. I've crammed all the signals in on one of the maps (search for Feltham), although the map needs re-spacing and some stations are in the wrong place. I'll take another look at that in the coming days but hopefully it's useful for now

 

[mlb54]

Peterborough should now all be done. It was extremely quick with the tips on how little had changed. Will still need to do the routes and aspects, but since they weren't in place for the old box at all they should be able to safely wait for another week.

I've also taken a look at Feltham with the hour I've saved. I've crammed all the signals in on one of the maps (search for Feltham), although the map needs re-spacing and some stations are in the wrong place. I'll take another look at that in the coming days but hopefully it's useful for now

Thanks very much for Peterborough - use it every day for work.

 

[OxtedL]

Peterborough should now all be done. It was extremely quick with the tips on how little had changed. Will still need to do the routes and aspects, but since they weren't in place for the old box at all they should be able to safely wait for another week.

Kings Cross to Doncaster inclusive are currently not showing for me on Traksy.

Big fan of the site as always.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Kings Cross to Doncaster inclusive are currently not showing for me on Traksy.

Big fan of the site as always.

Working fine for me.

 

[takno]

Kings Cross to Doncaster inclusive are currently not showing for me on Traksy.

Big fan of the site as always.

Sorry. Slightly complex - the maps were there and beautifully up to date, built using my new deployment system and everything. Unfortunately the new deploy system is still technically in test mode, so it isn't set to add the maps into the index, which means they couldn't be found.

I've redeployed them using the old system for now, which means the maps are visible and have the new signal codes, but some reason that escapes me they aren't mapping the headcodes. I'll look at getting the new system running again later, not least because if I accidentally deploy all the maps as they stand Leeds will completely disappear.

 

[SouthStand]

Slightly off-topic, but why does Open Train Times only show journey information for some head codes and not all? And even the ones it does show are often wrong.

Peterborough should now all be done. It was extremely quick with the tips on how little had changed. Will still need to do the routes and aspects, but since they weren't in place for the old box at all they should be able to safely wait for another week.

I've also taken a look at Feltham with the hour I've saved. I've crammed all the signals in on one of the maps (search for Feltham), although the map needs re-spacing and some stations are in the wrong place. I'll take another look at that in the coming days but hopefully it's useful for now

Seems to be the same with traksy - 2K10 currently sat in Spalding station is apparently the 09:17 Halifax to Hull service??

 

[takno]

Routes and signal aspects are now set on the recontrolled sections from Sandy to Stoke Tunnel. The mappings of all the up routes appear to be backwards, so there could be a couple of lingering mistakes on those, and none of the shunt routes are mapped, but otherwise should be functional.

 

[pokemonsuper9]

I noticed there's no link at Ordsall Lane Junction on the Salford Map [picture attached] (https://traksy.uk/live/M+48+SLFDORD+-17) towards Eccles despite a map existing (https://traksy.uk/live/M+22+TRFDPK+20)
If it's easy, could this be added?