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24 alternatives to Follow London Trains in 3D
deck.gl based visualiser of the TFL Api + National Rails to be able to track (with minimal drift) a train along the way in London and to the nearest airports. If you pick one from any platform in https://nexttrain.london basically you can share your train journey along the rails. Build to test Cloudflare workers and their infra along with deck.gl performance that is incredible in my opinion.
Follow London Trains in 3D is a visualization tool that tracks trains in real-time across London's Transport for London and National Rail networks using live API data. Users can select a train from any platform and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Railway▲405Hacked together a service in Go https://github.com/xlab/cdn-s3-go that routes content request to any arbitrary S3-compatible bucket. Some infra providers are offering free egress, but buckets are only private (hello Railway), and not geo-distributed. An L4 balancer will cost a fortune (hello Cloudflare). cdn-s3-go solves this by looking up objects, generating a pre-signed URLs and redirecting the clients directly. Free egress, cheap public geo-distributed CDN!
2021 · railway.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!
2025 · jameshard.ing · its alternatives →
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Hey all! My train the other day was delayed and I got curious where they all were at any given time, so I built a map and figured I'd share it.
2023 · trains.fyi · its alternatives →
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TravelAnimator▲536Turn Google Maps URLs into stunning map animations.
Jan 2026 · travelanimator.com · its alternatives →
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This was something I built while trying to look for housing in Toronto that was decently transit-accessible to my office while still cheap. The backend is written in Rust. It parses public GTFS data from transit agencies and performs a simple heuristics-based BFS on the bus lines to calculate how long to reach all points in a city. The frontend uses React and Mapbox GL to render each individual road segment based on how long it takes to reach. This project was a great excuse to learn Rust, deployments, and mapping. The source code is here if you are interested:…
2023 · map.henryn.xyz · its alternatives →
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I've spent about a year building this game which is inspired by the BBC show "Race across the World". For those that don't know you have to race from point A to point B only using public transport and without flying. You have starting money but if you need to top up your funds you can work jobs. Any feedback is greatly recieved.
Feb 2026 · geo-racers.com · its alternatives →
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Tokyo Trains▲13Semi inspired by the 3d Shinjuku station that was posted again recently, I noticed it was missing a large portion of the "complex" where "complex" is defined loosly has how far you can walk without stepping outside. So I asked Claude to make a 3d map of all Tokyo Trains, no libraries, and let you zoom into stations, and the first version with both map and the Shinjuku complex was ready in about 3 hours. It spent another 7 or so in various nit picky things I asked for to get to the current version. I know these will only get better but I think the thing I find most interesting is no libraries…
Aug 2026 · greggman.github.io · its alternatives →
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2021 · magpie-maps.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! As a long term NYC resident, I have read countless articles on ideas tweaking subway services, but always found them hard to follow without visual aid. So over the long weekend I decided to build one. It has all the basic features: trains would spawn at their origin, stop at stations, and slow down if it gets too close to another. You can also design custom routes by piecing tracks together. Have fun, and let me know what you think!
2025 · buildmytransit.nyc · its alternatives →
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Animated live map of the Berlin city trains
2022 · xn--ubhnchen-1za.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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OneGlanse▲77Free open-source GEO tracker for LLM visibility
Apr 2026 · oneglanse.com · its alternatives →
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virail▲72Transport metasearch: trains, flights, buses, car sharing
2018 · virail.com · its alternatives →
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Trainly UK▲84A lightweight application for tracking Great British trains
2023 · trainly.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m a junior developer. I wanted to share a side project I’ve been working on. The national railway carrier (BDZ) has no public API. They have an official map but the UI is quite dated, often lags, and doesn't show the full route context. I wrote a short write-up about the process here: https://www.pavlinbg.com/posts/bg-train-tracker I know it's still rough around the edges (I'm still working on it), but I’d love to hear your feedback or suggestions!
Dec 2025 · bdzmap.com · its alternatives →
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Explore the Berlin subway system using Memgraph Lab, mapping subway stops as nodes and connections as edges in a graph database.
2023 · memgraph.com · its alternatives →
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Amtrak.js▲77The easiest way to track Amtrak Trains programmatically
2021 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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Train Ride 3D ▲65Dedicate to all railfans. Control the train and enjoy!
2016 · teengames.mobi · its alternatives →
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