It counts to your stop
The figure is the time until you get off, which on a tunnel service is nowhere near the train’s last station. Under it the leg is drawn, with the station coming up named.
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Pakenham
Signal fault at Caulfield
+20MIN
Sandringham
Buses replace trains Sunday
PLANNED WORKS
Frankston
Running to timetable
GOOD SERVICE
Watch it work
Your train on the lock screen. The way round when the line is down.
The Live Activity and Dynamic Island, the alert when you reach your station, the alarm before your stop, which trains stop at yours, and the whole network live. One minute.
The destination chip
Does this train stop at my station?
Set TO BLACKBURN and each train says whether it stops there. Trains that run through are dimmed.
TO BLACKBURN
Lilydale
BLACKBURN 08:53
08:41
Belgrave
Doesn’t stop at Blackburn
08:44
Blackburn
STOPS AT BLACKBURN
08:52
Follow a trip
How long until I get off?
Tap follow on one train and the lock screen counts to the stop you get off at, not the end of the line. GET OFF is when the train leaves the station before yours, not a ninety-second guess. Nothing starts it but you.
The countdown
PAKENHAM · TO SUNBURY
+4MIN LATE
IN
9:12
UNTIL STATE LIBRARY
CARNEGIE
NEXT CAULFIELD
STATE LIBRARY
CAU
9
Minutes in the ring. Next stop across the camera.
Then GET OFF
PAKENHAM · TO SUNBURY
+4MIN LATE
GET OFF
State Library
OFF
1
When it is time, the island says OFF.
GET OFF is an event
The card says GET OFF when the train leaves the station before yours, not because a clock ran down. ARRIVED stays a minute, then the island and the lock screen go together. The button becomes I’VE ARRIVED if the timetable says you should be there and nobody has confirmed it.
A locked phone still moves
A server rewrites the card as the train moves, on iPhone and as a shade notification on Android, without opening the app. When it cannot, the card says how old the reading is rather than holding a number still.
Lock screen and Dynamic Island on iPhone · The same trip in a notification on Android · Not in a browser
Station alarm
The phone rings when your stop is next.
Turn it on in Settings. It keeps ringing until you stop it, on this phone or a paired Apple Watch. It still rings overnight.
GET OFF NEXT
State Library is the next stop.
STOPFollow first
It needs a followed trip and a named get-off station. Without those there is nothing honest to ring for.
You have to turn it off
Stop on the phone or on a paired Apple Watch stops both. It is an alarm, not another banner you can swipe away and miss.
It still rings overnight
Line alerts wait until morning. This alarm does not. You turned it on so it would get through.
iOS 26 for the looping alarm on iPhone and Watch · Full-screen on Android · Older iPhone: one notification · Not in a browser
Alerts that know your commute
Alerts for your trip, not the whole line.
Tell the app your commute and you only hear about faults that touch it.
Late Again
Now
Pakenham line
Signal fault at Caulfield, delays of 20 min
Mute this window
Mute today
The trip, not the line
A rule is one trip. Carnegie to State Library, weekdays, 8 to 9:30. Set none and you hear about every line you watch.
Quiet means quiet
Nothing arrives 8pm to 6am, or 10am to 4pm on weekdays. Anything still running when a window ends reaches you then.
Mute from the notification
Hold the alert on iPhone, expand it on Android, then choose “Mute this window” or “Mute today”. The mute lifts itself.
When your line is down
Another way home.
When your line is suspended, Late Again finds the trains still running, the station to get off at, and the walk at the end. Home and work never leave your phone.
Cranbourne and Pakenham lines suspended
Off at East Malvern, 1.4 km on foot
Sunbury · Glen Waverley lines
17:12 → 18:08 (56 min) · 1 change
18 min walk to home, or get picked up
It knows where you live
Save home and work as a station and a walk you are happy with, and the app works out where to put you down.
In the notification itself
The alert that says your line is down also says what to try instead.
Buses only if you want them
Replacement buses are a setting, not an assumption. Leave them off and you stay on rails and on foot.
Trip planning
Carnegie to Lara changes at Footscray.
The planner covers city and country trains together. It picks the change that gets you there soonest.
A change time per station
Six minutes at Southern Cross, three across a platform at Caulfield. Settings can add two or five minutes more.
What the fare is
Past the myki boundary, the trip says the V/Line fare is bought separately.
Where the seat is booked
Albury, Bairnsdale, Swan Hill, Warrnambool and Shepparton are sold by the seat. A trip that uses one says so.
Five cities, seven networks
One question, five cities.
Each city keeps its own lines, stations and rules. Switching city takes one tap.
Melbourne
Metro Trains and V/Line. Alamein to Williamstown, plus Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Traralgon and Seymour.
Sydney
Sydney Trains T1 to T9, the M1 Metro, light rail, Newcastle and the intercity lines.
Brisbane
Queensland Rail, Airport to Sunshine Coast, and the Gold Coast G:link.
Adelaide
Adelaide Metro trains, Belair to Seaford, and the Glenelg tram.
Canberra
Light rail, Gungahlin Place to Alinga Street.
Live trains on the line
See where the trains are.
Open a line and its trains are drawn on it, seen from above.
Citybound above the rail, outbound below, one glyph per train
What it does
Told once, not every ninety seconds.
One alert when a disruption starts. No repeats while it lasts.
The bad row first
At 6:40am you want the one that has gone wrong, not a list of seventeen.
A closed phone still hears
On iPhone and Android a server watches your operator and sends the alert. On the web the page only notices while it is open.
When there is nothing to show
Transport Canberra posts no service alerts. Canberra reads as running to timetable, and the app says why.
The loading screen
Every network's own train, through its own city.
While a board loads you get a real train in its operator's paint. Settings tours all ten.
Waratah A-set
Over the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Queensland Rail NGR
Across the Merivale bridge, the Story Bridge behind it
Canberra Metro Urbos
Down Northbourne Avenue, Black Mountain beyond
High Capacity Metro Train
A level crossing, and the sky rail that replaced one
A-City 4000 class
Adelaide Oval, across the Torrens
The only colour on the screen
Every line keeps its own colour.
The app has no brand colour of its own. Everything else on screen is grey.
Alamein
Belgrave
Glen Waverley
Lilydale
Craigieburn
Sunbury
Upfield
Frankston
Werribee
Williamstown
Cranbourne
Pakenham
Sandringham
Mernda
Hurstbridge
Stony Point
Flemington Racecourse
Decide before you leave the house.
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