#railtips — Public Fediverse posts

Before, there already was, and still is, a kind of station display option - the Find a Train button in the top bar brings up a menu with two options - when you pick the slightly mistranslated "at the station", you get to pick departures/arrivals, put in a station name and… pick a time, defaults to current. This will give you a list of clickable trains, in timing order taking into account delays (which physical boards do not, they always show trains in timetable order). This list does not auto-refresh, and because it's set to start at a particular time, previous trains will not scroll off even if you do refresh manually - you'll have to use the top bar option again to change the time if you want that. Nonetheless, this is still the view I'd recommend actually using.
From here, in the top left corner, you should see a "station display" button - that will show you the new functionality - a (supposedly - all the biggest stations appear to be frozen since today morning XD) live-updating board you can stretch to full screen. The layout appears to be yet another evolution of what I remember to be the latest LCD board stuff: notably, delays are indicated next to the time, not in a notes field, as is still way too common here, and train names are shown under the train number. However, trains are not clickable in this view - to get more details about the route you have to use the previous one.

Other points to note:
- The "trains at the station" view shows both platform and track numbers, in separate columns. The "station board" view shows only the platform number, as do physical boards.
- The "trains at the station" view always uses local time, as any journey planner should. The "station board" view shows times using the timezone reported by your browser.
- When you've clicked a train in the "trains at the station" view, you may want to click the number/name again to see the full run, and not just the part from/until the station
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