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HK MTR Time

An installable web app that shows real-time Hong Kong MTR and Light Rail arrival times on an always-on, glanceable display — pick your stations once and leave it running like a departure board for the commute, the elderly at home, or a shopfront.

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Overview

hkmtrtime.com pulls live Next Train data for the MTR heavy-rail network and Light Rail and renders it as a large, glanceable arrival board. It is built to stay open all day on a spare phone or screen — a sister app to HK Bus Time for rail commuters.

The brief

Make MTR arrival times effortless: no searching every time, no clutter. Choose your stations once, then see the next trains — by line, direction, platform and destination — at a glance on a display that never sleeps, and can be installed to the home screen like a native app.

What we built

  • Real-time Next Train — live MTR arrival times from Hong Kong open data (data.gov.hk).
  • Line, platform & destination — per-line up/down trains with platform and destination, colour-coded by line.
  • Light Rail integration — Light Rail routes and stops alongside heavy rail on one board.
  • Always-on, installable PWA — glanceable board that stays awake; add to home screen, opens full-screen like an app.
  • Front-end only — fast and low-cost, served straight from the edge.

Highlights

  • Glanceable, always-on — a rail departure board at home.
  • Installs like a native app, no app store needed.
  • Built on official open data — MTR heavy rail plus Light Rail.

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