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    About Signalboarder

    Signalboarder is one departure board with two surfaces. One is this browser tab. The other is a physical board built around an ESP32-S3 and an AMOLED display, designed to sit on a shelf and show the same live trains in the same compact model.

    Both surfaces ask a small Signalboarder gateway for a station. The gateway requests live departure data from National Rail's Darwin service, translates the provider response into Signalboarder's bounded departure model and briefly caches that station so many open boards do not all spend an upstream request at once. The browser then renders the returned trains locally.

    Signalboarder has no accounts and stores no journeys, station history or personal data. The browser may remember your chosen station and view on that device using local storage; it is not sent to a Signalboarder database because there is no Signalboarder database.

    Live departure data is provided by National Rail Enquiries. The searchable station list is derived from work by Dav Wheat and Trainline EU under the Open Database Licence. Signalboarder itself is made by alcun.dev.

    Make it a board

    1. 01Choose a stationSearch any UK station by name or CRS code.
    2. 02Pick your viewNext three trains, or tap the clock for the concourse.
    3. 03Leave it runningGo full screen, or add Signalboarder to your home screen.

    Common questions

    Is Signalboarder free?
    Yes. The hosted departure board has no account, signup or paid tier.
    Does Signalboarder store my journeys?
    No. Signalboarder has no user database and stores no journey or station history. Your browser can remember a station locally on your own device.
    Where do the live departures come from?
    Signalboarder's gateway reads National Rail's Darwin live departure data and returns a small, consistent board model to the browser and physical board.
    Is there a physical Signalboarder board?
    Yes. Signalboarder also runs on a purpose-built ESP32-S3 board with an AMOLED display. The physical board and browser use the same departure model.