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Hello,
Wondering if anyone can give me some pointers!
I'm working to gather a database of historical train movements for look ups. I was initially pointed towards Darwin (the daily FTP dump), but as I've looked into that, it appears that dump only has future scheduling information, not records of what actually happened.
I then looked at the pPortData.log (and it's 5 minute archives) and was able to find regular 'schedule' updates on a specific journey which included the 'rdelay' parameter. Is the rdelay on the last schedule update equivalent to the actual delay the train had getting to a particular station?
I then found some information in this group which seemed to imply that actually Darwin was only about predicting information and that Network Rail's TRUST system was the place for information about what has actually happened. The documentation from that appears to suggest that I would need to use a combination of the SCHEDULE CIF data and the Train Movement updates to piece together the information I need. However the data files (schedule particularly) are vast and I've not yet found anything that appears to give me the information I'm looking for.
Does anyone have any pointers for where I can get or how I can piece together the actual delay information so that I can keep a historical record of it?
Many thanks,
Andrew