Fasteroute - Live Train Info

Appletree Technology Limited

About this app

Live train departures and arrivals on the National Rail network with train reliability.

- Search for a particular station or see nearby stations.
- Know which platform to go to and how long until your train departs.
- See at a glance if your train is on time, late or cancelled.
- Check how reliable a particular train is based upon past performance*.
- Filter trains by the stations they stop at.
- Save your favourite stations and filters.
- Follow trains in real-time, see stopping stations and the reasons for delays and cancellations.

Simple and easy to use. Displayed beautifully. Powered by National Rail Enquiries.

*Train reliability information displayed is based upon collected historical train performance, which may differ from what is experienced on your journey.

This app requests the following permissions:
i) Network Access: to connect to our servers to get the live train info.
ii) Location: for finding the closest stations to your current location.
iii) Photos/Media/Files: needed by Google Maps, which we use to show stations on a map.

Ratings and reviews

Excellent app. Plenty of features, without bloat; I particularly like that it indicates whether a train often departs late. The visual design does not adhere to Material guidelines, but is clean, fast, and easy to read, so I have no problem with it. I have not noticed any bugs or jankiness while using the app.

I travel between Reading and Paddington and there are varying speeds of train, stopping or direct services. What this app is missing is a way to filter by direct only or to show the arrival time in the list of the results. Without that it really limits it's ease of use as I have to open the search results individually to find out which ones are direct. There would be space in the UI if you reduced the padding between the platform and the time until departure.

One thing that could be better: Reverse the current list of favourites! The oldest ones (aka most used) should appear at the top and new ones should be added at the bottom. This issue is made worse by the fact that my old (aka frequently used) favourites are now off the bottom of the screen so I have to scroll for them - annoying! UX engineers make a fuss to the devs, this is not right! (And should be really easy to fix) Anyway, this is a great app, I highly recommend it.

What's new

Fasteroute can now be installed on external storage (SD Card) if your phone's internal storage is short of space.