TrainTracker™ Text: 8 49 50
TrainTracker™ Text is our easy to use journey planner, available directly to your mobile phone by text message.
How much does it cost?
Messages sent to 8 49 50 cost the standard network rate. Our reply to you will cost 25p including VAT, and will be charged to you by your operator. You are only charged for replies containing departure/arrival information. You will not be charged for error or usage messages.
How does it work?
TrainTracker™ Text uses the same information that is available on our web-based Journey Planner and our telephone TrainTracker™ service. Simply text your journey details to 8 49 50.To get up-to-the-minute information for trains running in the next 21 or past 3 hours, including delay and cancellation information where available. Why not give it a try on our simulator.
How does it work?
Using the service is easy - just text a few simple requests to 8 49 50 and within seconds you'll have a response. You can receive information about a specific journey, or about departures or arrivals at a specific station.
Below are a couple of examples of what you could text:
Live Departure and Arrival Information:
In this example, we'll ask for information at Oxford (OXF) and London Kings Cross (KGX) stations. You can use the stations code if it's easier.
| Oxford | Next few departures from Oxford at the time of your text message (including only showing departures which call at a specific station) |
| OXF to Banbury | |
| dep OXF 1900 | Departures from Oxford at around 1900. |
| depart Oxford 1900 | |
| arrive London Kings Cross | Arrivals at London Kings Cross (including only showing arrivals from a specific station) |
| arr KGX 1900 | |
| arr KGX from Doncaster | |
| arr KGX from York 2.30pm |
Try combining the different parts of these example with your own stations, to make the results more specific.
Journey Planning, with real time information:
Working with the same principles as shown above, simply enter the origin and destination names or stations codes to get the journey information. In this example, we'll ask for information at London Euston (EUS) and Manchester Piccadilly stations.
| Manchester to Euston | The next few departures at the time of the sending the text message |
| EUS to MAN 1300 | For journey options between the two stations, using times to make results more specific. |
| arr eus from man 2100 | |
| dep Manchester to London 2100 |
Give it a try!!
Try our text message simulator free before you try it on your mobile phone
