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Google’s partnered up with TheTrainLine.com to bundle mainline train information into Google Maps in the UK. If you’re carless, Google can now helpfully suggest getting the train instead of walking from Edinburgh to London.
2,500 mainline train stations care now listed along with some 8,000 bus stops and 250 tube stations around the capital – allowing you to mix and match your transport routes to get you to your destination.
The update is live for the desktop, but it’s absent without word of when it’ll hit on the mobile platform – you know, the one you really need it on while you’re out and about. Planned timetable disruptions will be listed, but up-to-date travel information is sadly lacking, so you’ll still have to lean on National Rail Enquiries to keep ahead of signal failures and the like. [TechRadar]
Update: Public transport information is now live on the mobile platform. Both iOS and Android are known to currently sport the new information:
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As you say Sam this needs to be on Mobile and especially the Google Maps App for Android ASAP.
Seeing as the apps are live connected to the web, surely this is just el-Goog flipping a switch to turn it on, just like they did with public transport? No app update needed.
It has definitely been frustrating using the public transport option without trains included – Can’t wait until this goes live!! (and then they add live disruption info)
Do they have service updates in any other countries currently? I know they do general traffic info, but do they do service updates for public transport, for example in the US?
Looks like it’s live now! London to Reading includes taking the train when selecting public transport directions on an iPad
Confirmed, working for me via Google Maps App on Android.
It doesn’t even follow the train tracks! Psssh!
Well hopefully the train driver isn’t using it for directions then