API for Irish Rail live service status

thirteentwenty · 14-07-2013 09:56PM #1

Hi,

was wondering if anyone could help me with finding out if this is even possible. Someone did this with the London tube. A real time map of trains:

skyfall version: http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/skyfall/

'pretty' version: http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

Irish rail have a sort of real time map setup here:

http://www.irishrail.ie/index.jsp?p=119&n=157

anyone know where the API is located, if it's available at all? thanks.

Kenz · 14-07-2013 10:44PM

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but after very little playing with Chrome (Press F12), Irish Rail does seem to freely provide this URL: http://api.irishrail.ie/realtime/

I'd suggest though that you are posting this request message in the wrong section, try under Development instead.

thirteentwenty · 14-07-2013 11:07PM

well, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the link.

However, then I read this:

Our central signalling system is subject to ongoing work to support this real-time facility. However real-time information has weaker coverage in certain areas, these include:

Hazelhatch - Heuston Line
Athlone - Westport/Ballina Line
Cork Station
Cork - Cobh/Midleton Line
Mallow - Tralee Line
Ballybrophy - Limerick Line
Limerick - Ennis Line
Athy - Waterford Line
Limerick Junction - Waterford Line
Greystones - Rosslare Line
Drogheda - Belfast Line
Drumcondra - Sligo Line

In these cases your query will return the scheduled time only.

... Could end up being a pointless project.

Fred Swanson · 21-07-2013 08:58PM

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API for Irish Rail live service status

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