Follow London Trains in 3D
Details
- External ID
- 48786455
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Follow London Trains in 3D
- Website domain
- nexttrain.london
- Launched
- July 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 156
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9498207885304659
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
deck.gl based visualiser of the TFL Api + National Rails to be able to track (with minimal drift) a train along the way in London and to the nearest airports. If you pick one from any platform in https://nexttrain.london basically you can share your train journey along the rails. Build to test Cloudflare workers and their infra along with deck.gl performance that is incredible in my opinion.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive maps and geospatial visualizations
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- 3d london train tracker
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a 3D visualization dashboard using deck.gl that maps real-time train positions from public TfL and National Rail APIs along GeoJSON rail geometries.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Cesium, Google Maps Tiles API, DB (German railways)
Concerns raised: Map tile alignment incorrect - doesn't match reality, Jarring/disorienting transitions between train selections, Z-buffer rendering issues with train cars occluding map, Tracks not grounded to map, sliding around, Trains simultaneously underneath and occluding the map visually
Feature requests: Smoother eased transitions between train selections, Realistic 3D buildings using Cesium or similar, Handle underground/overground rendering at appropriate locations (e.g., District Line near Hammersmith), Satellite view option, Scale bar on map
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 28 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 29 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 226 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.