The end of December is always a busy time on the railways. We’ve been hard at work updating our maps for all the Christmas works, as well as adding some new features. Here’s a summary:

• At London Euston, the HS2 Works Sidings are now shown
• The Bristol Parkway map boasts complete route coverage
• Route indications are now shown on the signals controlled by Morpeth
• The Cardiff Central map now includes the Vale of Glamorgan route with complete route coverage, as well as some route coverage around Cardiff Central
• London Paddington now has route coverage from Ladbroke Grove to London Paddington
• The Bedford to Syston map has the new four-track railway through Sharnbrook, plus route coverage of Sharnbrook Junction
• Motherwell PSB has now been decommissioned, and our map shows the recontrolled area with complete route and signal coverage

This is no easy task – over the past month we’ve added nearly 3,200 new map elements, including signals, routes and berths, all by hand.

There are some additional fixes we’ll be making in the New Year, but now it’s time to shut down the computer and go celebrate the New Year.

Happy New Year!

Another load of updates have gone live on the site. They’re almost all bugfixes or addition of green ‘route set’ lights, but we have some new maps!

• The Carstairs map covers just north of Carlisle to Motherwell, and will have a further update over Christmas when the area is recontrolled and Motherwell PSB closes
• The Glasgow North West map covers Carntyne and Duke Street to Hyndland, via Anniesland and via Yoker to Dalmuir, the Alexandria and Milngavie branches and the terminus at Helensburgh Central
• The Bristol Parkway map has been partially redrawn to show more detail of Stoke Gifford IEP depot, and now has route indications in the Bristol Parkway area
• The Sutton map covers Sutton and extends our coverage of South London further
• The Guildford map has been extended to cover the line through Dorking to Redhill

The problems we’ve been having with our data feeds seem to have resolved themselves. These were a combination of issues on our side compounded by major issues with the Open Data platform, making it difficult to get alerting happening under the right circumstances.

In the coming weeks, we will be looking for testers for our new site. This will have the same look and feel as the current site, but be faster and easier to navigate. Don’t volunteer just yet – we’ve not yet built our public staging infrastructure.