Matching your journey to a train
Also: add a journey, logging, log a journey
You say where and when; Trainiac finds the real trains that did it, and you pick yours.
Example
You: Reading to London Paddington
On 4 October
Every train calling at both
Plus trips with one change
You pick the 08:42
One train, one day
Tied to that run
Its stops, times and route come with it
An example journey, not a real record.
When you add a journey, you tell Trainiac where you got on, where you got off, and the day. Trainiac then looks for every train that stopped at both stations that day, in the right order.
It also finds trips with one change: a first train to a station both trains call at, then an onward train leaving long enough after you’d arrive. If a direct train would have got you there just as soon, the trip with a change is left out.
Once you pick, your journey is tied to that exact train run: its train UID and the date it ran. That’s how Trainiac knows its real stops, times, route and delay, and who else was aboard.
In Trainiac
The Add tab: choose the stations and the day, then “Which train?”.