A European timetable in your console
If you want a properly geeky departure board for your train connections — on your own terminal, or on a wallboard at an event — you can have one in two commands. This post is from 2013. fahrplan is a thin client over the public transport.opendata.ch API and has seen little development since; the API itself is unofficial and its response format has changed over the years. Note also that pip install into the system Python is refused on current distributions — use pipx or a virtual environment, as below.
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