In the third in our series of posts about offsets, this one covers the missing link as to why we, and the industry, use offsets to report train movements.
One of the major differences between Realtime Trains and other sites is our work around offsets, the way in which realtime reporting happens at a vast majority of locations across the network. Aviemore was recently resignalled as part of the Highland Main Line upgrades, with a new Train Describer, and this is what we did to enable accurate live reporting.