Led Departure Board
About
Led Departure Board is a webapp designed to re-create the platform signs you get at British and German train stations.
The data is collected live from multiple datasource's and displayed in different custom panels.
News
New UI Project
Brand new redesigned UI being introduced into the application. Starting with this home page
Serverless Design
The production website has been moved to a new serverless deployment. Please let me know if you have any issues
New Documentation Website
A new website has been built to provide documentation/user guides on leddepartureboard.com
How to Use
Learn how to use all the custom features on our document website.
Features
Accurate Recreation
All the boards are designed to accuratly recreate the boards you would find at stations. Including scrolling information displays and paging stop displays
Live Departure Times
All the boards constantly update with the latest data including delays to services or platform alterations. Sometimes the platform will be shown even before it would appear in the actual station
Open Source
Led Departure Board is an opensource project. This means everyone has access to the source code and can contribute towards the webapp. You can click this link to view the project
Data Sources
- Real Time TrainsUK Live Departure Data is provided by the Realtime Trains API. This api then talks to network rail to get the data back. This means we receive the most up to date data from network rail.
- National Rail
- The search functionality is powered by the national rail data feed (NRE). For more information visit, https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/100296.aspx
- Departure Data can also be fetched from national rail (Including train car length for certain services) by changing the data source in settings. This is fetched using the darwin api
- DeutscheBahn APISearch and Live Departures for Germany are provided by the DeutscheBahn API. Note they only supply data relating to there trains.
- TfL Open DataSearch and Live Departures for London buses are Powered by TfL Open Data. This also Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016' and Geomni UK Map data © and database rights [2019]
Project Info
This is an open source project so is free to used under the Apache-2.0 Liscense.
For more info or for the source code of the project then visit the github page
Contact Me
To contact me for more information feel free to send an email to info@leddepartureboard.com
Or start an issue/discussion on github