Snowpeak Express
A single track across the continent, from Damson Dale over the high ground and down to Fox Heath. Two cars work the line. Open at the sides, and stopping 30 seconds wherever a platform board hangs · long enough to get on without hurrying. Between the boards nothing stops at all: you step aboard as it passes, take a seat, ride as far as you like, and step off where it suits you.
This page shows where the cars are right now. Each car reports its own position, so what you read here is what is happening on the rails.
Where the cars are right now
The continent from above. The line is the surveyed route, the dots are the cars, live.
Drawn from the 5,964 surveyed points, on the grid's own map tiles. A stop appears wherever a passenger board hangs · take the board down and the stop goes with it.
The car reads the route itself and reports its position every six seconds. When the reports stop, this page goes quiet with it. Nothing here is painted on.
When does it pass your place?
A fixed line, a known pace, and cars that say where they are. So this is arithmetic, not a promise: pick the region you are standing in.
One full run takes about 31 minutes including the stops. With two cars on the line, something passes any given point roughly every 16 minutes.
The climb
From Damson Dale at 30 m up over the high ground at Silver Dale and down again to Fox Heath. The dots are the cars.
30 seconds, no door, no ticket.
A car waits 30 seconds wherever a platform board hangs, and 45 seconds at Damson Dale and at Fox Heath before setting off the other way. Everywhere else it does not stop at all · and it does not need to, because the sides are open.
The track crosses 54 regions between the dale and the sea. It is never far, and the map above says where the car is this minute.
At a platform board it waits 30 seconds, which is plenty. Anywhere else it moves at a brisk walk and the sides are open: stand by the rails, step aboard, sit down. Riding is free.
When your place drifts past, walk out the open side. Miss one and another comes · roughly every 16 minutes at any point on the line.