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1 year
We are aware of users impersonating us on this platform. They have been reported but have not yet been removed - please be careful when trying to communicate with us. This account is our only user on Twitter/X.
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@RealtimeTrains
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1 year
We're 11 years old today! Time for cake.
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4 years
We're pleased to announce that @LNER have joined Know Your Train today! 👋 From today, we'll show info for all of their services such as how long each train is, the type of train and what facilities are available on board. Oh, and cool pictures too 😉
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3 years
Blue tick! ☑️
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It's a great pleasure to welcome @greateranglia to our Know Your Train service today. We're working with them on the information we have even more for their services, so watch this space!
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We've reached an agreement with @GBRailfreight to release data about the locomotives allocated to their services on Realtime Trains. More details in the blog post 👇
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We've launched Know Your Train today. For selected @ScotRail train services, you can see an image of what your train will look like and the facilities available onboard. We'll be rolling it out to more of their fleet soon!
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It's cake day! We're 10 years old today. Oh, and @chilternrailway , @GC_Rail and @Hull_Trains gave us a present too and have joined Know Your Train today 😉
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Welcome to @AvantiWestCoast who become the next operator to participate in our Know Your Train service! It's available on their train services from today covering their entire fleet. p.s. we think 390119 looks amazing 😉
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Hi @LumoTravel , welcome to Know Your Train! 👋 Lumo are now the 16th mainline operator to join our unique information service!
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GWR are the eleventh operator to participate in Know Your Train today!
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4 years
We're excited to announce that @northernassist are next operator to join Know Your Train! Find out what type of train you'll be catching and what facilities are on board. Know Your Train is now available on over 20% of all services nationwide.
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9 years old today! Not quite sure how. Here's to another...
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Know Your Train now covers more than half of all train services across Great Britain today as it expands with the addition of our twelfth train operator, @EastMidRailway !
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Don't tell them 🤫, but @CrossCountryUK are the next operator to join Know Your Train. 😉 CrossCountry now tells you top secret information about what train you'll expect to get, what is available onboard and how long the train is. #DontTellCrossCountry
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We're pleased to announce that @CalSleeper are the next operator to release their allocations on Realtime Trains. Their services will appear from tonight.
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4 years
Know Your Train helps you know what type of train will be on your journey, how many coaches & on-board facilities. It's now available on over a quarter of the network - over 31,500 services covering 1.55m miles every week! Check it out on our site now ➡️
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From all of us at RTT Towers, we wish you all a Merry Christmas. 🎅 Don't forget to keep an eye out for 1X01 running a bit later tonight, we hear they are busy preparing to depart North Pole ... 👀
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Before Santa makes their merry way around the network, we'd like to thank all of our users for continuing to use RTT through yet another challenging year. We hope that you have the best Christmas that you can. 🎅 To all those working over Christmas and New Year, thank you. 🙂
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We're pleased to announce, after three years of development, the new version of our website is now available. As always, it's available at , for more information check out the blog:
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It’s cake day! We are 8 years old today. 🥳
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We're very pleased to be welcoming @SwanRailway to Realtime Trains today! A journey for us of over 7 years, they're the first heritage line to integrate into our service. We're also providing live information on their stations through departure boards!
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4 years
Our thoughts are with those involved in the incident near Stonehaven today.
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2 years
Looks like a certain person is getting ready to go... keep an eye on it tonight 🎅
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1 year
We were delighted to help @SwanRailway with their first 2023 day running to Wareham today with our bespoke information systems upgraded to add @SW_Help connections. They are running Tues-Thurs & Sat to Wareham til 10 September. Great for visiting the Isle of Purbeck by rail.
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🎅 The train has returned to North Pole for another year. Merry Christmas everyone. We know it's different this year, but we hope it is the best you can make it. And, from us at RTT towers, thank you to all workers who continue to work to keep the country safe, well & moving. 👏
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A bumper update to Realtime Trains today! We've improved Know Your Train: it now supports reversals, train join/splits, @ScotRail 's Inter7City HSTs, @LNER 's special liveries and Highland @CalSleeper services All that and more! Find out more on our blog.
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For the rail enthusiasts out there, you can now search for supported locomotives and multiple units in the quick search bar. All operators providing allocations are supported, listed here: Enjoy. 😉
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We're pleased to announce the launch of Track Your Train. It's our way of providing more information about where a train is and how well it is making progress. Available now on selected routes from London Liverpool Street. Find out more at
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For all the railway enthusiasts out there, we are now showing the train allocations for @LNER 's Azuma fleet on the site.
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We've added another member of the @ScotRail fleet to Know Your Train today! We've added the class 334 fleet, which operate on the Glasgow suburban routes and via Bathgate to Edinburgh. We now cover four of the ten different types of train that ScotRail operate.
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Scotland ✅ We're probably late to the party announcing @TPEassist joining our Know Your Train, but they join our service today meaning all regular passenger train services in Scotland are now covered!
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@RealtimeTrains
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We've had a bit of a rough 18 hours with lots of problems. Network, software, redundancies failing...you name it, we've had it! Thanks for bearing with us during this. All good now & we'll fill in the missing data later today. For now... we all need a cup of tea at RTT Towers.
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We are enjoying the @LNER #HSTFarewell today. It’s running for the next four days to Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, Leeds and London. A lot of effort has obviously gone in and it looks fantastic! 😍 Today it is running as #HSTFarewell #LetsGoRoundAgain
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There's an @AvantiWestCoast Pendolino trying to beat the London to Glasgow speed record today, currently held by the APT which did it in 3:52:40. You can keep up to date with progress on it at and join the 2,000 others following it right now!
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Travelling on the West Highland Line between Glasgow and Oban? @ScotRail now run their new Highland Explorer carriages on some services. You can find what services they're running on RTT - look out for the special livery on our site!
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It's apparently that time of year again...! 🎅 #KnowYourSleigh #KnowYourTrain
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5 years
🤫 Latest in from train planning... reportedly a special service to and from North Pole on Tuesday night going everywhere!
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Exactly one year ago, we caused quite a lot of noise with @ScotRail ... launching Know Your Train! There's now 7 train operators taking part, covering over a third of the network. We're planning to grow it yet further, so watch this space... 👀
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📰 Really pleased to link up with @RealtimeTrains who can now show the type and length of trains on our services. It’s building on the work we’ve been doing on the ScotRail app to show train length plus live & historical loading data.
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🛑 There are no passenger train services today around the network, apart from a limited shuttle service at Heathrow Airport. ⚡️ Trains may still be moving around the network and electrified lines remain live, so stay off the tracks.
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To all the train crew and crews working on the infrastructure during the Christmas period, thank you for working on our railway to help improve it for all for years to come. 🎅
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Following the government advice earlier today we won't be releasing any more functionality targeted at just railway enthusiasts for foreseeable future as it may encourage non-essential travel. We'll keep working away and have stuff ready for when advice improves. Thanks all! 👋
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🛑 There are no passenger train services today around the network, apart from a limited shuttle service at Heathrow Airport. ⚡ Trains may still be moving around the network and electrified lines remain live, so stay off the tracks.
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Tonight, we wave goodbye to @VirginTrains who have operated the West Coast Main Line for 22 years and previously what is now CrossCountry for 10. Tomorrow, @AvantiWestCoast start operations - and they have a lot to live up to. We'll change the operator name overnight on services
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It's coming up to that time of year again... 🎅
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Has something happened? Our mentions seem to be quite busy today... 😇
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4 years
In a new innovation for this year, Santa partnering with us for #KnowYourSleigh 🎅. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Power Car leads the formation this year. All the latest information on our site at
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🎵 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... 🎵 🎅
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🎅 The train has now returned to North Pole for another year. We're having a rest from social media over Christmas, if you need support please email us. Merry Christmas everyone, and see you next year!
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Our friends at @GBRailfreight are running a 4 day railtour to raise money for @ProstateUK from tomorrow. As in 2018, we're providing improved coverage. You can find it at . If you follow the train & find it helpful, please consider donating to @ProstateUK
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Our partnership with @ScotRail for train allocations has meant we can launch a new feature - Know Your Train. It's all about giving you more information about the train operating your service. You can find out more about it on our blog 👇
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Santa 🎅 has left North Pole early to deliver all of the presents 🎁 ... and a small amount of coal 🙈
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Merry Christmas to all from the very small team here at Realtime Trains and we all hope that you have a peaceful and restful few days. 🎅
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Santa is now back at North Pole after visiting all the stations 🎅 To all of our users, have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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We now have @SwanRailway on our service - so we don’t need to engineer an excuse to put a steam train on your timelines anymore… Here’s 78018 from earlier today!
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⚠️ There is a limited train service in some areas of the network today. ⚡ Trains may still be moving around the network and electrified lines remain live, so stay off the tracks.
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This is cool! 👇
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🎅 ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house nothing was stirring, not even a mouse... We’re receiving the latest from North Pole about tonight’s special service, we are even expecting a train formation later!
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Our contribution is being put to good use for new step boards for the VEP. 👍
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We're proud to announce that @RealtimeTrains has decided to support the restoration of @bluebellrailway 's unique 4VEP EMU No.3417. @Richard_rail @chris_railway @cmajrail @Modern_Railways @HeritageRailMag @railexpress Follow the link below to learn more.
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And one last thing... ♥️ to all the #railwayfamily who are out there keeping everything running.
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🎅 Not long to go now until the North Pole International circular service ...
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Elsewhere on the network tomorrow, GWR operate their last 'classic' 2+4 HST with slam doors. Refurbished 'Castle' sets with sliding doors continue into 2020. Starts Bristol TM at 0526 to Penzance and thence to Bristol Parkway, Taunton, Parkway again and finishes back at TM 1850.
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2019 has seen the biggest change to our little website since we launched in 2012 - when @networkrail launched their open data platform. 😁 We're hoping to keep that going with something new every month next year. Some will be small, but we've got a lot planned... on to 2020! 🥳
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We've now added @ScotRail 's class 156, 318 and 320 fleets to Know Your Train. We've spent some time on the rest of the fleet too to improve their look and make them look closer to the real thing 😉
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At 09:43 today, we will be joining with the #railwayfamily in a minute’s silence to remember those who sadly passed away last week at Stonehaven.
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We are unable to read tweets or provide support at present due to our client being rather broken. Hopefully this will get fixed soon - but you never know with this place now!
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4 years
An update on Train Allocations on the blog today, including a new operator. More at It's been rather rail enthusiast heavy recently as we catch up with developments during lockdown, but our next update in a few weeks will be very much for everyone.
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We're aware of an issue that means most operators participating in Know Your Train have no data being displayed, we're currently investigating the cause with the supplier of the data feed. It's not something within our control but we are doing our best to look into it.
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The original livery HST that operated @LNER 's #HSTFarewell is off to Ely for storage tomorrow. It leaves Edinburgh's Craigentinny depot at 0441 and heads south, reaching Newcastle 0633, York 0806, Peterborough 0930 and Ely station 1009. Full timings at
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Christmas looks a bit different for many this year. We hope that, despite this, everyone has the best Christmas possible. To all of the workers today who continue to keep us safe, well and help keep the country moving, thank you.
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Santa safely back at North Pole International now, and visited all stations within PPM. Merry Christmas everyone, hope to see you all again next year!
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🎅 Looks like the tour of the network has been completed! Who saw it?!
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2 years
Due to continued changes with the Twitter API, we're no longer able to handle queries through our normal support systems. While we're still here for support, replies may take longer than normal as we adapt our processes.
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A new blog post today about our thoughts on passenger information during disruption and one of the major reasons why we sometimes get it wrong.
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🎅 Santa has left North Pole depot a few minutes early! Get ready everyone! 🎅 You can stay up to date at
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Today, @LNER #InterCity125 railtour operates its Highland Chieftain leg. It leaves Inverness 1214, Perth 1457, arr Edinburgh 1639. Picture from last night - send yours to us if you want it featured later! Timings are at #HSTFarewell #LetsGoRoundAgain
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We are up in the Scottish Highlands for the rest of this week getting timings so we can provide accurate arrival/departure times after the fact. Some parts of Highland Main Line now have modern signalling, which makes it possible to do this.
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🎅 We hear the final preparations are being made at North Pole for Santa's run with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Power Car around the country this evening. You can stay up to date at 🎅
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🎅 Looks like Santa has been to all the stations! Who managed to see the train? (Although you should all be asleep 😉) 🎅 Just need to wait for it to get back to North Pole now! You can keep up to date at
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Another chance to see the LNER original livery HST today in Scotland. It's operating a staff charter around the Fife Circle later today. Leaves Waverley at 1516, back at 1719. Full timings available at
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They missed the record by 21 seconds! 🙁 We've now updated the service page at with the more detailed timings that you'd normally expect ...
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Update on the badges! We have 175 available to buy - if there’s enough interest we will get more in. £5 per badge incl P&P. Available to buy on Monday.
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For supported @ScotRail services, we've made a minor improvement to our detailed location to show train lengths to provide more info and aid social distancing. Please continue to only travel if it is essential. Thank you. More info about the change is at
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Our shop will be offline from tonight until later this week while we perform some software upgrades. When it returns, we'll have a whole trove of new RTT & @RailMiles merch available for purchase. 👀
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⚠️ There is a limited train service in some areas of the network today. ⚡️ Trains may still be moving around the network and electrified lines remain live, so stay off the tracks.
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ℹ️ Apart from at Heathrow Airport, there are no passenger services on the full network today. ⚠️ Railway tracks are dangerous. Even if there are no passenger trains, freight trains will continue to operate and electrified tracks remain live. Do not trespass on any railway track.
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Something different today on the blog - the new timetable starts tomorrow so we are taking a look at it in numbers. Nearly 7 million miles a week covered by services in the new timetable! 😮
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🎵 Away on a ranger, no trains now they said The spotter laid down their hopes of a shed The greens of the signals lit brightly with glee A seven coach train arriving indeed 🎵
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Last minute platform change meaning you have to dash? 💨 Our new service, Track Your Train, solves that. We'll tell you the platform when it's set, not just as the train rolls in. Works at all stations along our supported routes from Liverpool Street!
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Today, Realtime Trains Towers are enjoying our last trip with Pullman service on a @GWRHelp HST.
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@Modern_Railways @CrossCountryUK oh, hi, guess what has just arrived in our inbox ready to present 😉
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We are aware of an issue with Know Your Train with some train operators today. It’s not within our control but we are led to believe some railway systems are facing issues today meaning we aren’t receiving the data. It should eventually resolve itself automatically.
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Done some investigation into this, and currently expect that they'll be available for £5 each including P&P. We'll make them available for sale before the end of the month. Keep an eye on Twitter or on Facebook for when they are made available.
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Tom Cairns
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So who would be interested in buying one of these badges? I currently have a limited run of them…
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It’s okay. We don’t need downtime for software updates.
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We said a few days ago that we are working on a lot of new things for 2020. We've been working over Christmas on a new processor... but what does that entail or mean to you? Find out in our latest blog post. 👇
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We've made an improvement to Know Your Train train diagrams on our detailed mode. After a number of requests, we've now made it possible to see train length and facilities info instead of just the unit identities. More details on the blog:
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While it's somewhat quieter (thanks for #stayinghome ), we're going to do extended maintenance on the site. This will result in "Approaching" and "Arriving" status disappearing for a few days and slowly rolling back out. At platform will remain. Everything else will remain as now
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🎉 Happy new year! 🎉
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