Alerts are now active on Whats My Train.



To get rail alerts send a message to hey@whatsmytrain.com using any of the following formats:

Alert [station-name]

Alerts [station-name]

Alert [origin name] to [destination name]

Alerts [origin name] to [destination name]



We are still ironing out how alerts display on the NJ Transit RSS feed, we fix any problems as we see them. If you have any problems please let us know.

We have updated the spell checking algorithm to accurately return best 3 matches.



Previously we would only suggest the best match and two other matches. While this was useful it wasn’t entirely helpful.



We have also setup the spell checker to check permutations of a station name

Example: “NYP”, “NY Penn Station”, etc.



Hopefully these improvements make Whats My Train more enjoyable to use!

Working on retrieving Alerts using NJ Transit Alert RSS.



Usage Examples:

Alerts NYP to Oradell – will return any active alerts on all lines used in this route

Alerts Oradell – will return any active alerts on this station’s line



We will have this active shortly. As it is now we are testing as alerts show up in the system, we do not know the concrete format of the alerts but have made our “best guess” as to how they will look.



NJ Transit’s RSS is poorly formatted, wish they had Line name as an XML tag but we can’t always get what we want 😛