Places To Explore: Salisbury

Take a weekend trip to Salisbury. The home of the Magna Carta and Stonehenge! An ideal location for friends, families or tourists, Salisbury is host to some of the most interesting parts of a British history. Things To See Stonehenge Created in the Neolithic period, Stonehenge was designated a World Heritage Site in 1986. The site has the most architecturally sophisticated and only surviving lintel led stone circle on the world. It contains more than 350 burial mounds and several major prehistoric monuments. The stone circle at Stonehenge is surrounded in mystery. Nobody knows the true purpose of the building, »

Fasteroute for Android Update

This week we released the first substantial update for Fasteroute for Android since our initial launch (version 0.0.18). Most of the changes were behind the scenes, fixing some bugs which had caused problems for a few users in the first version, as well as making departure boards load a little bit faster (particularly noticeable when you are on the move with a poor internet connection). There are three very visible changes though: First, by popular demand, we added a special icon for the Javelin Train, which you can see in the picture below. Second, based on another common »

The Fasteroute Blog

Welcome to the Fasteroute blog. The Fasteroute team will be posting here on a variety of topics, ranging from travelling by train, the workings of the railway system, train based trivia, and technical topics surrounding our apps. We hope you enjoy reading what we have to say. For now, that's it, but soon we'll be back with our first real post. »