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Chris French

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Apr 22, 2026, 4:19:53 PM (4 days ago) Apr 22
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Hello and firstly thank you to all who help keep the rail data wiki and this group running it's been a great help on my project so far.

I'm attempting to track train locations so what I have is a stomp connection to the Darwin feed subscribed to the all signal area feed.

Iv got berth movements mapping to smart then to tiploc's but im not seeing any td movements on my local line Stamford oakham melton. Any reason I can't find any movements in this area?

It also seems smart doesnt have any obvious entries for this area either. Am I missing something or is smart a work in progress?

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Peter Hicks

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Apr 22, 2026, 4:22:28 PM (4 days ago) Apr 22
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Hi Chris

On Wednesday, 22 April 2026 at 21:19, Chris French <cr_f...@hotmail.com> wrote:

I'm attempting to track train locations so what I have is a stomp connection to the Darwin feed subscribed to the all signal area feed.

Iv got berth movements mapping to smart then to tiploc's but im not seeing any td movements on my local line Stamford oakham melton. Any reason I can't find any movements in this area?

It also seems smart doesnt have any obvious entries for this area either. Am I missing something or is smart a work in progress?

You won't find any TD berth messages for that part of the country, as there aren't any TDs there connected to SMART.  That's why the berth steps dataset doesn't have a berth operation in it for those locations - it's all manual TRUST reporting (and GPS where TRUST reports aren't mandatory).


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Chris French

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Apr 22, 2026, 4:47:58 PM (4 days ago) Apr 22
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Ah rite thank you. Is there a list of areas like this? Is there anyway of getting those manual reports to track the train?

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Peter Hicks

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Apr 22, 2026, 4:50:12 PM (4 days ago) Apr 22
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On Wednesday, 22 April 2026 at 21:47, Chris French <cr_f...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Ah rite thank you. Is there a list of areas like this? Is there anyway of getting those manual reports to track the train?

Absolutely - you'll want the TRUST (Train Movement) feed, which will report the movement of the train at the STANOX associated with the timing point(s) in the train's schedule.  You may or may not get GPS-sourced reports at all locations however, it very much depends if the train is fitted with GPS equipment, its allocation is correct in GEMINI and if the backhaul from the train to the GPS Gateway is working.


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Chris French

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Apr 22, 2026, 4:52:13 PM (4 days ago) Apr 22
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Cool thank you il take a look.

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