In Britain you can even see if the dispatcher has turned the signal green for your train: https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/crewe https://www.opent

In Britain you can even see if the dispatcher has turned the signal green for your train: https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/crewe https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/crewe Unfortunately, this is very much the exception. In general railway operators are extremely hostile to sharing any of the (usually very accurate) internal data they have about train movements, and perfer to stick with simple "Your train will arrive in x minutes" predictions. This sometimes gets a bit absurd: In Germany the unions are officially against any open data sharing, for some reason(I think it's to do with making it easier for passengers to get cheaper tickets). In Britain the freight train companies argue that information about their trains should stay secret because there is no public interest in it, and it is a competitive disadvantage if their competitors know where trains they run go.