The National Rail Widget will help you keep track of arrivals and departures (in real time) to/from any station covered by the www.nationalrail.co.uk Web site.

The Widget will automatically refresh itself every 10 minutes, but you can force a refresh by clicking on the text "Refresh Trains". This refresh cannot exceed once every two minutes by request of the RTTI web site admins.

To find your station, click on "Lookup Station" and use the drop-downs to navigate to the right… station.

The list of stations is retrieved directly from the Web site and some stations have odd locations as a result. Paddington is under "L" for "London Paddington".

You can also use the "Recent Stations" drop-down to switch quickly between up to five favourites.

Since many people appear to use this Widget much more than I do, if you come across problems then please let me know by shooting an email to widgets - at/@ - reades - dot - com. That will ensure that they get fixed rather more quickly than if you count on me to spot it. More