LIVE TRAIN STATUS
Platform
The board you squint at from across the concourse, legible in your hand — and still there when the signal is not.
A GOAT SCALE CONCEPT Erode Jn · 9:02
9:02
12689 Velan Express
Coimbatore Jn → Chennai CentralSUN 20 SEP
RUNNINGBetween Tiruppur and Erode Jn
Tiruppur · 33 km back84 km/h17 km to Erode Jn
Held at signal 8:41–8:45 near Uttukuli. Still 22 late.
THENarrival · platform
Live · updated 9:02 from 1,184 phones on board
LiveBoardCoachesAlarms
What running-status apps have learned to do
The app said on time. The train had not left the yard.
“On time”, printed while the train stood outside the yard for nine minutes.
A status guessed from the timetable, with no time stamp and no source.
The platform number, three taps down under More details.
The one fact you need before you climb the bridge is the hardest to reach.
A hotel banner exactly where the delay should be.
The screen is sold before it is designed.
A blank screen in the cutting past Jolarpettai.
It stops working in the places where trains actually run late.
A placeholder app, drawn for this slide only. The habits belong to the category, not to any one product.
Platform's whole argument: show what we know, when we last knew it and where it came from — and keep working when the signal does not.
9:02
12689 Velan Express
Coimbatore Jn → Chennai CentralSUN 20 SEP
RUNNINGBetween Tiruppur and Erode Jn
Tiruppur · 33 km back84 km/h17 km to Erode Jn
Held at signal 8:41–8:45 near Uttukuli. Still 22 late.
THENarrival · platform
Live · updated 9:02 from 1,184 phones on board
LiveBoardCoachesAlarms
Live status
Where it is, why it is late, and which platform.
Twenty-two minutes, and the line that explains them, above everything else.
Between Tiruppur and Erode Jn at 84 km/h, with the kilometres left and the signal stop that did not add to the delay.
Platform 3, confirmed at 9:01 — sized like the thing you actually walk towards.
+22MINUTES
Held from Coimbatore Jn to Chennai Central — the same number against every stop that is left, not quietly dropped at the next one.
Station board
The concourse board, in one thumb.
Seven departures, written the way the station writes them — and the late ones keep their booked time as well as the new one.
PLATFORM3
The platform is a blue enamel plate, at the size you look for on a concourse. It is the one loud object in the app.
Announcements arrive as text, so you can read the one you missed.
9:02
Erode JnED
DeparturesArrivals re-checked every 60s
ANNOUNCEMENTS, AS TEXT
9:0112689 Velan Express will arrive on platform 3.
8:5422643 Ponni Express is running 40 minutes late.
Saved for offline. Platform numbers come from the station display and are re-checked every 60 seconds.
LiveBoardCoachesAlarms
Coach position
Stand where S7 will stop, not where the crowd is.
PLATFORM3
ERODE JN · PLATFORM 3 · 540 M12689 Velan Express · 19 coaches
Chennai end · engine leading bridge exitCoimbatore end
9:04
Coach position3
12689 Velan Express · Erode Jn · platform 3
S7 stops 60 m ahead of the foot-over-bridge.
Walk left from the stairs Exit 170 m · 2 min
CHENNAI END19 coaches · engine leading
SLR, GEN, GEN, S1–S3 ahead
S4Sleeper
S5Sleeper
S6Sleeper
S7Your coach · berth 34 pillar 12
S8Sleeper
S9Sleeper
Foot-over-bridge60 M
S10Sleeper
B1, B2, A1, pantry, GEN, SLR behind
Main exit170 M
Confirmed by 214 travellers this month. Rake order can change — check the coach board on the door before you board.
LiveBoardCoachesAlarms
Sixty metres ahead of the bridge, a hundred and seventy from the exit — about two minutes with a bag.
The same platform stood upright in the app: the tactile edge on the left, your coach filled blue.
Confirmed by 214 travellers this month — and the app says so instead of pretending to be certain.
Alarms and offline
It wakes you in the cutting, where there is no signal.
9:05
Alarms
NO SIGNAL SINCE 9:03 Retry
Last synced 9:02, between Tiruppur and Erode Jn, 22 minutes late. Alarms below run on the timetable and your phone clock.
YOUR ALARMS3 set for this trip
Salem Jn
20 minutes before arrivalrings9:57
Expected 10:17 · platform 1 · 60 km away
Jolarpettai Jn
On arrivalrings11:42
Expected 11:42 · platform 4
Chennai Central
10 minutes before arrivalrings14:27
Expected 14:37 · platform 9 · your stop
WITHOUT SIGNAL
Alarms and ring times
Full timetable
Coach position
Platform numbers
Live speed
Other trains
If you need certainty, ask at the enquiry counter on platform 1.
LiveBoardCoachesAlarms
Sunday 20 September
9:57
Platformnow
Salem Jn in 20 minutes
Arriving 10:17 on platform 1. Coach S7 stops near the foot-over-bridge. Set while you had no signal.
Next: Jolarpettai Jn on arrival, 11:42
Set at 9:05 with no bars. It rings at 9:57 on the phone clock, twenty minutes before Salem Jn's expected 10:17.
The screen says what still works without signal, and what does not. If you need certainty, it sends you to the enquiry counter.
The element
One row, five facts, no advertising.
Barlow Condensed at 25px on a 56px row: readable at arm's length, and at 2× it is still the same component.
Booked timekept, never overwrittenNumber and namethe way it is announcedPlatforman enamel plate, not a footnoteDelay and new timeamber only when it is true
PlatformA GOAT SCALE CONCEPT
PlatformLIVE TRAIN STATUS
You already know which platform.
PLATFORM3
12689 Velan Express · Erode Jn · 9:19
Coach S7 stops 60 m ahead of the foot-over-bridge.
A GOAT SCALE CONCEPT
Platform12689 VELAN EXPRESS · SUN 20 SEP
22
MINUTES LATE
BECAUSEit left Coimbatore Jn at 7:32, twenty-two minutes behind its rake.SOErode Jn is 9:14, platform 3 — not the 8:52 on the ticket.ANDChennai Central is 14:37, unless it makes the time up.
The same twenty-two minutes, carried to every stop that is left.
7:327:108:167:549:148:5210:179:5511:4211:2012:4012:1813:2713:0514:3714:15CoimbatoreCBE · +22TiruppurTUP · +22ErodeED · +22SalemSA · +22JolarpettaiJTJ · +22KatpadiKPD · +22ArakkonamAJJ · +22ChennaiMAS · +22
Every delay in Platform carries a reason and a new time. This is the whole product.A GOAT SCALE CONCEPT
PlatformLive train status · design system
PALETTE
Board#0B100FPlatform blue#0F3FB5Signal#1FB865Amber#F5A31BEnamel#F1F4F3Ink#131A18
TYPE
9:14 +22
Barlow Condensed 700 — board and times
Erode Jn, platform 3
Barlow 500–700 — interface copy
ED · 12689 · 84 KM/H
Roboto Mono 500 — codes and heads
COMPONENTS
PLATFORM36+22 MINON TIME
Live · updated 9:02 Offline · last sync 9:02
ICONS · 24 GRID
ROLLING STOCK, DRAWN NOT PHOTOGRAPHED
One locomotive front and one coach side, recoloured for every state the app needs.
Platform shows what it knows, when it last knew it, and where it came from.
Designed by Goat ScalePLATFORM · 2026