timetables on my phone
 

right here goes

i thought it would be cool to have the timetables on my phone. there are several options for doing this

1. view the pdfs - for this you need a fancy schmancy Palm Treo or something, I'm sure someone is doing this

2. view HTML files. My phone has a HTML viewer that works quite well. So if i can put the relevant timetables in a html format somehow that would work
2.1. i took the pdfs and converted them to HTML (using gmail) didn't work
2.2. I used the timetable search on irishrail.ie
2.2.1. I copied and pasted the results into word and excel - no go
2.2.2. saved the page directly and sent it to my phone - kind of worked but very messy cos of all the extra crap on the page
2.3. I can just go and write the HTML and enter the times manually. If i had done this at the start instead of wasting my time with the other methods it would be done by now!!!

3. write them in as a draft SMS - this is the fall back but is not cool or techy enough

4. take a pic of the relevant time table and view it in my phone
4.1 take a screen shot of the timetable and put it on my phone

anyone else doing this or have a better idea?
is there perchance a mobile.irishrail.ie site i am unaware of?

Nope not one of the 15 domain names CIE own

Someone does do a palm readable version

To be really useful the timetable would have to be real time

right i got a bit obsessed with this and put together the following
it basically has only the trains that go to galway and cuts out as much extra space (white space and mayo trains) as possible



i also made 4 smaller ones, one each for 'galway dublin weekdays' etc

it's a bit labour intensive but not that bad when you get a rythm going *ahem* ;)

the point is that it means i have the relevant timetable on my phone now so that's good

What exactly are you looking for Donal?
is it a copy of the printed timetable to/from Dublin to some fixed station (i.e. Galway or Athenry)? or the timetable for all/most of the stops on the route or something else?

I think you mean to have something on your phone to replicate a paper copy of the timetable and wont wear out like paper and you'll always have your phone in your pocket..

Something like this? or am I way wide of the mark?

well i just wanted a way of putting relevant timetables on my phone.

ideally a real time one but that depends on IE so i was looking at the available options for putting static ones on myself

ideally there would be a way i could load them onto my phone that would not require me to go online each time. I have plenty of memory and a nice colour screen but it's not a Palm or anything

so i guess this thread is about the most efficient way to do that. and from my experimenting i found that taking a screenshot of the relevant one is one way. This also allows me to format the image and get rid of the irrelevant bits that clog up most of IE's timetables.

i was hoping that someone would come along with a better way :)