UK Railboard

A free Rail Data Marketplace key is needed for National Rail stations. TfL works without one.

Getting started

1. Install the app.
2. On the clock's web page, open the Apps tab and press ⚙ next to UKRailboard.
3. Under Station 1, set Type and Station (see below), then save.

That's enough to get going. Everything else is optional.

TfL stations

Set Type to TfL and type the station's name into Station, e.g. High Barnet. No account is needed.

If the name fits more than one station, the app picks the nearest one. To choose a specific one, add a word: Bank Underground or Bank DLR.

National Rail stations

National Rail needs a free key:

1. Sign up at the Rail Data Marketplace.
2. Subscribe to the Live Departure Board product.
3. Copy your key into National Rail key in the app's settings, under Keys.

Then set Type to National Rail and enter the station's 3-letter code into Station, e.g. KGX for London King's Cross. To find your station's code, look it up in the National Rail list of stations.

Using it

Reading the screen

 ⊖  Northern Edgware P2     ← where the next train you can catch is going
 8 12 15 19m     ALL        ← minutes until each train leaves
 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬                 ← time left before you need to leave

• Top line: the destination of the first train you can still catch, and its platform. TfL trains start with the line name in the line's colour.
• The minutes:
  • Bright amber: the first train you can catch.
  • Dim amber: the trains after it.
  • Grey: leaving too soon to make it, based on your walking time.
  • Orange: running late.
  • Red X: cancelled.
• Corner tag (e.g. ALL, NB): the direction you're looking at.
• Bottom bar: shrinks over the last 10 minutes before you need to leave.
• Coloured dot next to the icon: there's a problem on the line.
• National Rail boards also show replacement buses and ferries, as Bus … and Ferry ….

Directions

Hold the knob to step through the directions. All comes first, then one view per direction, and the name shows briefly as you switch.

By default the app works out the directions from the trains running:

• at a station with several lines (e.g. King's Cross), one view per line;
• otherwise one view per platform direction (TfL, e.g. Northbound) or per destination (National Rail).

To choose your own, type station names into Directions, separated by commas. Each one becomes a view of the trains that go to or through it.

Leave chime

The clock chimes when a train you can catch is a set number of minutes away, so you know when to head out. Set it up under Chime and Leaving:

Other settings

If something's wrong

Not covered: Northern Ireland, and trams or metros outside London (Metrolink, Tyne and Wear Metro, Glasgow Subway, Edinburgh Trams).