Most popular stations and journeys

The telltrains forums are now online, and we’ve recently added the most popular stations

As you would expect London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Reading and Brighton

make the top 10. Some of the surprises are Stevenage and Portsmouth, I wouldn’t have expected these guys to beat Clapham Junction.

Commuter friendly train website

Every commuter in Britain should have their own mycommute page on telltrains. Something like http://www.telltrains.com/vikram/work or http://www.telltrains.com/vikram/home which should work on a mobile phone on this page the commuter can define all the ways they can get to work or home.

Information about which route is best to take now, which station they should head as they walkout of the office.

Filter trains

No its not a new train company. I’ve added a new feature to the results page so that trains can be filtered in or out.

For example if you want to travel from London to Manchester you’ll probably find two types of journeys. The direct  train from Euston to Manchester or one where the journey is broken at Strafford. The new filters allow you to either only show direct trains or trains with 1 or fewer changes or train on a particular route or trains within a certain timeframe.

Enjoy.

Bookmarkable journeys

If you make the same train journey often. It can be a pain to type in the same 30-40 characters to find out train times.

So the results page is now bookmarkable. Just bookmark the results for a journey and you can visit it anytime to see

trains for that trip. In addition to this if you don’t want to wait for the homepage to load then you can just say

http://www.telltrains.com/timetable/from/to

Put the name of the stations in place of from and to.

Maps for stations

Though the station names suggestion list has a location for each of the stations.

For example: if you type newp

you get this list

• Newport (Gwent, Wales)
• Newport (Essex, South East England)

I really like the idea of looking at a map to get the feel for where the place is.

So for the stations where I have a lat/long available I’ve added a map link, if you click on it, it’ll show you the map of the place.

Suggesting station names

Over the past couple of days I’ve been working on the station names list. Everyone loves google suggest, so I decided that it would be a cool thing to have the same thing for stations. So instead of typing a name and then searching and then picking out the “proper” name from a list, you can just type in the name and pick the station you want to travel from.