Why it exists
On 18 January 2026, in Adamuz, a train derailed after a rail broke and about 15 seconds later it was hit by another train running on the adjacent track. There was no channel to warn the second train that a stopped train was ahead. radartrenes.com exists to close that window of seconds: if every train is visible in real time and an abnormal stop is broadcast instantly, the train behind can know in time.
What it is for
It has two goals. First, to give anyone, with no account and free of charge, a live map of the trains in service with their position, speed, heading, delay, source and data age, like the ones that already exist for aircraft. Second, to watch the network on that map with a safety engine that detects sudden stops, trains stopped on the line, dangerous convergences, overspeed and signal loss, and warns the trains involved first and then the whole network. radartrenes.com complements official railway signalling; it does not replace it and is not a certified safety system, and it says so on screen.
Already in production
radartrenes.com shows hundreds of real trains at once: Renfe Cercanías commuter trains from their open real-time data and the Finnish network from Fintraffic / Digitraffic. It crosses the timetable with the position to give each train’s delay, its next stop and a punctuality colour, and overlays OpenRailwayMap tracks, signals, maximum speeds and electrification. The safety engine watches those trains live and shows its alerts on the map and in their own panel. Passengers, crew and drivers can turn their phone into one more source with the “share my position” mode, and any other system can connect through the open TROP v1 protocol, documented in OpenAPI 3.1.
Free for everyone
Using radartrenes.com is free: no sign-up and no account, in the browser or installed on your phone as a web app. For operators, infrastructure managers and companies that want to build it into a commercial product or service there is a commercial licence: write to us from this page.