# National Rail LDBWS to Twitter

https://blog.cynexia.com/national-rail-ldbws-to-twitter

Author: [Rob Aleck](https://blog.cynexia.com/pages/about) · https://github.com/mnbf9rca · https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaleck/ · https://family-foqos.app/

Published: 2016-10-23
Categories: How-to


I've been playing around with my Nextion and a Particle Photon for a while. The idea is to pull data from a variety of services and have it available on a display by the front door - things like the weather, the outside temperature (from my Netatmo), and the next 3 trains to Seven Sisters from our station. Living, as we do, at the end of the Enfield Town branch line, it can be a bit hit and miss as to whether or not you make the train, or if it's even running.  
  
Anyway, I got the first part of this working. I regularly poll the National Rail SOAP API, parsing the content in to a simple minified JSON format using a Power App. Took me a while.  
  
Then I discovered that someone has written a [JSON proxy for the LDBWS](<https://huxley.unop.uk/>). I'll try that next.