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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Turns out that Past Me has already gone to the effort of setting up the groundwork for connecting Sweden up to my website 👀

Screenshot of a folder called "data", containing another folder called "temp" and then 4 JSON text files. These are named fi.json, gb.json, nl.json, and sv.json - the last of which is highlighted.

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 01/10/2026

That website seems rather difficult to use given the 5 thousand popup adverts all over the place 🫣 Looks like data.trafikverket.se and www.trafiklab.se are the places to go for the data - will look into adding Swedish data support for my CIS/PIS simulator website 😆

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 01/10/2026

What a beauty! This thread has also reminded me I enjoyed using the SJ app on my last visit there, and I should really look into how much of their lovely realtime data is open 👀

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Just replace "departures" in any of the meine oebb URL with "formation", and add the parameter static=true

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Yes, although the ÖBB ones are relatively easy to find if you know where to look 😆

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 27/09/2026

The "live" one is at cis.arturs.co.uk but only has GB service and doesn't include this ÖBB screen. A work-in-progress version is available at evo--cis-pis-simulator.netlify.app, but that'll is liable to break easily, and will move over to the main URL in a few weeks when it's ready

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Ever seen a train cab mockup consisting /only/ of the side doors on all 4 sides? Now you have 😆

Photo of a square train cab mock-up on a small wheeled platform. All 4 sides of the square have a small wall with a different design of door, and some have a window too.

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Now to mix in some GB data...

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Is my app just being slow or has Bluesky compressed that to hell and back making it entirely illegible 🤨🤨

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Someone (me) has been having a bit too much fun with railway open data again... 🇫🇮🇦🇹

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 14/08/2026

I very much did not need to hear 50+ loud blaring alarms in my train carriage after we have already had multiple emergency brake applications earlier in the journey...

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JenOnTheMove 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jenonthemove.com · 14/08/2026

There are now going to be many many people turning off emergency alerts if it gets used like this It actively harms the system if it's misused.

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 03/08/2026

Make sure to sit in every seat and place something down on every table in your 3 personal carriages, to really get your money's worth 😆

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 02/08/2026

Been so long since I've watched it that I genuinely don't remember what season I got up to - there are also so many different spin-off series now that I am terrified at the thought of trying to catch up to speed 😅

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 24/07/2026

Wondering if anyone could help with some reference photos of SBB departure boards? I am in particular looking for how to represent services that: - Terminate short of, extend beyond, or divert away from their destination - Have additional/cancelled stops (I have this in French, but not in EN/DE/IT)

Partial screenshot of an official SBB departure board, showing an 07:05 IR90 service to Brig, with additional yellow text underneath that says "Arrêt à Leuk", translating to "Stops at Leuk".

Partial screenshot of another official SBB departure board, showing an 05:04 IR95 service to Brig, with additional yellow text underneath that says "Ne s'arrête pas à Leuk", translating to "Not stopping at Leuk".

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 20/07/2026

You'll generally need to play around with how many rows of trains you want shown on the CIS screens to make them fit the aspect ratio, but as long as your screen isn't absurdly wide/tall then it should work alright. The PIS for the German ICE however does not suit vertical screens at all

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 20/07/2026

#EMF2026 has sadly come to an end, so my departure board is all packed up and ready to break my back on my way home 🫠 A reminder though that these are available online at cis.arturs.co.uk, but it's all a fun little side-project so it's not at all polished 😅

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 19/07/2026

I love me some line numbers, but I must admit it is tricky for me to reverse-engineer them onto a timetable not built around them - but not for a lack of trying! 😅 (Not quite sure what's happened to the Heathrow Express label here - will investigate when I'm done with lunch)

Partial screenshot of cis.arturs.co.uk showing an SBB-style departure board at London Paddington. The different Elizabeth line routes are labelled S10/S11/S12 depending on their route, and Heathrow Express has a bright red italic "HEX" label, although the acronym is repeated twice for some reason.
Some of the station names are also translated into German-ish

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 19/07/2026

Liked and reposted by an SBB employee... Terrifying 😅😂😂

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 19/07/2026

I should clarify that I have slightly modified the departure board for the benefit of non-railway nerds at EMF, which I'll roll back afterwards. Mostly the fact that it's showing company logos instead of train categories like S/R/RE/IR/IC (which are themselves still a work in progress)

Partial screenshot of cis.arturs.co.uk showing an SBB-style departure board for Leeds, showing various trains. On the left they have Swiss-style train categories labelled, such as R for local trains, IR for inter-regional trains, and IC for inter-city trains. Some of the destinations have also been given some German-style names, such as York Hauptbahnhof

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 19/07/2026

Hello! Yes probably at some point - I don't have a list that I'm working through, but rather just whatever I feel like/have the best reference photos for. I do however already have a PIS simulator for the ICEs! (Slightly oddly cropped due to me being on my mobile - sorry) cis.arturs.co.uk

Screenshot of cis.arturs.co.uk showing the DB ICE simulator, with information for East Midlands Railway service 1F16, and part of its calling pattern.

Screenshot of cis.arturs.co.uk showing the DB ICE simulator, with a map of the train between its origin at London St Pancras and its first stop at Market Harborough

Screenshot of cis.arturs.co.uk showing the DB ICE simulator, with the next stop of Market Harborough for this service, with an advert for EMF underneath it

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 19/07/2026

🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 bsky.app/profile/artu...

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 19/07/2026

Another day at #EMF2026, another departure board design - this time from Switzerland's own SBB. Unfortunately the calling patterns from Ledbury are either only 1 station (Hereford), or too many to list on my computer monitor, so only Colwall makes the cut for screen size

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 18/07/2026

Today we are... *spins wheel* ...French! 🇫🇷🥖

Photo of the departure board monitor on display inside the welcome tent at Electromagnetic Field festival. It is modelled after SNCF's departure boards with blue background lines of alternating darkness, and the word "depárts" written vertically on the right-hand side.

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 17/07/2026

Might switch it to a different country's design tomorrow 🤔

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 17/07/2026

My little contribution to #EMF2026 - a lil departure board in the welcome tent, showing Ledbury train departures in the style of Nederlandse Spoorwegen

Photo of a computer monitor up on a stand inside a white tent. On the monitor is a departure board in the style of Dutch NS. Next 5 trains from Ledbury are shown in rows of alternating white and light blue backgrounds. At the bottom is a bright yellow section with a "Trains at Ledbury" title, and a warning about train running between Reading/Didcot Parkway and Oxford being delayed by up to 20 minutes or revised.

Selfie of me wearing transparent glasses and a white Uniqlo TfL-branded T-shirt, stood in front of the departure board

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 28/06/2026

I dislike the feature being called "close friends" stories - I treat them as slightly more private stories. What I really wish is for Instagram to copy Snapchat's ability to have any number of different private story groups with different names & audiences

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 17/06/2026

Who needs generative AI when you can poorly slap 2 photos together using Instagram's story editor

Deliveroo promotional image showing a phone with a screenshot of the Deliveroo app, showing the progress of a delivery order. Next to the estimated arrival time is a small photo of Cher on a bicycle

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Signal of the Day 🚦🚥🚂 @signaloftheday.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Wuppertaler Schwebebahn's Japanese sister railway, the Shōnan-Monorail (Submitted by Arturs Dobrecovs) #SignalOfTheDay

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 10/06/2026

Meanwhile my fatass getting annoyed at not being able to find the Nando's pin...

Screenshot of an email from Google Maps, saying that my updated location has had 10,000 total views, about the Greenford Nando's that I corrected on the 13th of March. A map shows 2 pins on the Greenford West Way shopping centre, with 1 where the pin was originally (the middle of the car park) and where I moved it to (the actual Nando's). A subtitle at the bottom says "Your update is helping in a big way"

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 07/06/2026

It isn't so simple when you have to explain to the general public why /some/ trains aren't stopping at /Liverpool Street/ because /Moorgate/ has closed... But everything else is still stopping at Liverpool Street which is open as normal 😆

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 07/06/2026

If only it were as simple as that 🫠😫

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 07/06/2026

You were in Moorgate the whole time 😝

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 20/05/2026

While in the area, had a few rides on the Enoden Electric Railway too - particularly love the bit that runs along the Sagami Bay coast

Photo of an Enoden 1000-series train approaching the terminal station Fujisawa on the elevated single-track line that bends and curves around other buildings. The roof of the station building forms an arch over the track and casts a shadow on the platform, so the train and the buildings and trees around it really pop.

Photo of an Enoden 300-series train pulling out of Enoshima station heading towards Fujisawa, entering a level crossing over a road.

Photo of an Enoden line 1000-series train running on the line parallel to a road and the Sagami Bay, with pretty big waves crashing towards the beach shore, out of view behind the elevated road.

Photo of 2 Enoden line trains side by side in a passing loop, as most of the line is single-track. On the left is a 2000-series train travelling away from the camera with red tail-lights at the back, and on the right is a 20-series train stood still waiting for the signal to enter the single-track line, with a single big headlight illuminated at the front.
The line runs right next to a pedestrian pavement with only a small knee-height fence, although it starts to curve away from the path and behind some trees further from the camera.

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 20/05/2026

Look at these two adorable cuties 🇯🇵🚟🇩🇪

Close-up photo of the side of one of the Shōnan Monorail carriages in a platform. Stickered onto the side is an illustration of both a Shōnan Monorail car and a Wuppertal Schwebebahn car, anthropomorphised and shown to be smiling and holding hands.

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 20/05/2026

Had a little jolly on Wuppertal Schwebebahn's sister danglebahn today - the Shōnan Monorail!

Photo of Shōnan Monorail unit 5602 pulling into the terminal station Shōnan-Enoshima. The train is suspended above a background of green trees and shrubbery, with some of the platform visible at the bottom, which consists of a passenger platform on either side of a lowered gap where the train hovers. To either side is a dispatch mirror, and on one side the departing signal, currently showing a red aspect.
The train itself is silver, with black trim around the tall windows, and some pinkish-red highlights under and above the windows.

Selfie of me stood in front of the same train pulling into the same station, but now with the first carriage in the platform. I'm wearing a light grey t-shirt with dark green shoulders and a dark red collar, some sunglasses, and a vague attempt at a smile.

Photo of the same train earlier in the day, pulling into one of the intermediate stations. The track is suspended high above a road.
Crucially here you can see that the main part of the line (to the left, where the train is coming from) is single-track, splitting up into a passing loop at most stations to allow trains to travel in both directions. In this photo the front carriage of the train is passing through a switch crossing in the track above, going into the platform further away from the camera to the right, while the crossing is blocked for the platform closer to the camera.

Photo of train 5608 approaching another intermediate station on the Shōnan Monorail. This station is single-track with no crossings on either side, so trains in both directions use the same platform. This train is almost identical but has orange highlights instead of pinkish-red ones. On approach to the station, the train is passing above a residential road on a big sweeping curve, with everything expect the front carriage blocked from view by some large support columns.

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 11/05/2026

Trams older than my parents 😆

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 10/05/2026

The rest of the readers just show a generic rejection error if you try to use contactless, rather than directing you to the front, so I went through 3 different bank cards (both physical and on Google Play) before another passenger helpfully saw my distress and guided me to use the correct reader

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 10/05/2026

Oh I had fun (not) learning that, although all the readers at every entrance of a Tallinn tram have the contactless symbol printed on them, only 1 reader at the very front door actually accepts contactless 🫠

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Arturs Dobrecovs @arturs.co.uk · 07/05/2026

Obvs had to chase down both of the Super Mario Shinkansen trains while staying in Kyushu 🍄🐢⭐🚄

Photo of JR Kyushu's class N700S Shinkansen wrapped in a colourful Super Mario livery, in a platform at Takeo-Onsen preparing to take me to Nagasaki. The livery is mostly red with a thick blue stripe across the bottom, with lots of large Mario stickers of him in different poses.

Selfie of me in front of the same red Super Mario Shinkansen train, with some half-height platform edge doors between me and the train.

Photo of JR Kyushu's 800 series Shinkansen, also decorated with lots of Super Mario characters and items, but this time just stickers on a plain white background.

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