Transit
Live departures on your new tab — London Underground, NYC Subway, and UK National Rail. Search a station, and your next trains are already there when you open a tab.
A live departure board, grouped by direction. Each row is the line in its own colour, where the train's headed, and the countdown — with the trains after it shown as "then 16, 42" so one glance tells you the whole near future. No app to open, no key to set up.
Westbound
- P Heathrow T5 PiccadillyDue then 8, 15
- P Rayners Lane Piccadilly4 min then 11
Southbound
- V Brixton Victoria2 min then 5, 11
- N Morden Northern3 min then 8
Three networks, one board
The widget speaks three transport systems, and each looks like its own signage — because the line colours are the real ones.
- London (TfL). All twenty TfL-run rail lines: the eleven Underground lines, the DLR, the Elizabeth line, trams, and the six named Overground lines (Windrush, Lioness, Mildmay, Suffragette, Weaver, Liberty). Every line wears its official colour.
- NYC Subway. Every subway line, straight from the MTA's realtime feed, with the familiar circular route bullets. Filter to Uptown or Downtown, or watch both.
- UK National Rail. Any mainline station — search by name, and the board shows each operator in its brand colour with live, delay-aware times.
Built like a real departure board
Trains group by direction, so Northbound and Southbound read as separate lists instead of one jumbled queue. Within each, trains to the same place collapse into a single row: the soonest time leads, and the next couple follow as then 16, 42. Destinations line up on a clean left edge, the countdowns on a clean right edge — the whole thing scans in a second.
No setup, no key
Every source the widget uses is open — TfL's public API, the MTA's realtime feed, and a keyless National Rail proxy. There's nothing to register for and no API key to paste. Add the widget, search your station, done.
Add it to your dashboard
Press E to enter edit mode, A to add, pick Transit. It drops in at three-wide, three-tall — enough for both directions on a busy station. Open its settings to choose the network and search for your stop.
Settings
| Setting | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Network Pick the transport system. London covers the Underground plus the DLR, Overground, Elizabeth line and trams; NYC is the subway; National Rail is the UK mainline network. | TfL · NYC · National Rail | London (TfL) |
| Station Type a station name and pick from the results. TfL and National Rail search live; the ~470 NYC subway stations are bundled, so that search is instant and works offline. | search | Oxford Circus |
| Line NYC groups its realtime feeds by colour (A C E, B D F M, and so on). Pick the group that serves your station. | NYC only | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |
| Direction Filter the NYC board to just Northbound or Southbound trains, or show both. TfL and National Rail already carry a platform/direction per train. | NYC only | Both |
Small things you might miss
- The countdown keeps ticking between refreshes. Data refreshes every thirty seconds, but the times count down locally in between, so a "3 min" quietly becomes "2 min" without waiting on the network.
- Names are trimmed to the point. "Stratford Underground Station" shows as "Stratford" — the boilerplate that repeats on every row is stripped so destinations read like place names.
- National Rail understands delays. If a 14:30 is now expected at 14:34, the countdown uses the real expected time, not the timetable — and cancelled services drop off the board.
Heads up
- National Rail, not TfL, for mainline stations. Stations like Catford Bridge are National Rail only — switch the network to National Rail to find them. TfL search covers the Tube, DLR, Overground, Elizabeth line and trams.
- It's a departure board, not a journey planner. It shows the next trains from one station; it won't route you across changes. For that, reach for your usual maps app.
- Live data can hiccup. If a transport feed is briefly down, the widget says so and retries — the other networks keep working independently.