TfL Platforms
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TfL Platforms

Live arrivals for the platform you stand on and the bus stop you wait at.

Tube, DLR, Elizabeth line and London buses, in the app, on your Home Screen and on your Lock Screen.

Full support for iPhone Duo and iPad

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A platform's board in TfL Platforms: the line's status, then the next trains and their minutes to arrival in amber dot-matrix type

What it does

Save the few places you travel from, and see when the next one is coming without digging through a whole station.

  • Your platform

    Save a Tube, DLR or Elizabeth line platform, and see only the trains that stop there, with where each is heading.

  • Your bus stop

    Save a London bus stop and route. Optionally, a snowflake marks buses that are likely to be air-conditioned.

  • Line status

    Each platform's board shows whether your line is running normally. If it isn't, tap it for TfL's reason.

  • Live line mapPLUS

    See every train running your platform's way on a map, and whether there is an unusually long wait ahead of you. More about the map.

  • Live bus mapPLUS

    See the next three buses on the road to your stop, with how many stops each has to go.

  • Live ActivitiesPLUS

    Follow a platform or stop on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with arrivals updated every minute.

  • WidgetsPLUS

    Medium and large Home Screen widgets show your saved platforms at a glance, counting down to the next arrival.

  • Nearest first

    Switch it on and the app opens straight to the saved platform you are standing near. Your location stays on your phone.

  • Everywhere

    Your saved platforms sync between your devices through iCloud. No account to make.

TfL Platforms is free. Plus adds Live Activities, widgets and the live line and bus maps, for £1.99 a month or £13.99 a year after a two-week free trial. If you got the app before it went free, you have Plus for life.

Two columns on iPhone Duo and iPad

On a wide screen, your saved platforms sit beside the board. With Plus, the live line or bus map opens next to the board, so you see the minutes to arrival and where the trains or buses are at the same time.

iPhone Duo open: on the left, the Victoria line board at Oxford Circus, northbound platform 6, with trains to Walthamstow Central in 1, 3, 6, 7 and 9 minutes; on the right, the live Victoria line map with every northbound train and the list of 15 trains below
iPhone Duo, open: the board on the left, the live line map on the right.
iPhone Duo stood like a laptop: the Victoria line board at Oxford Circus on the upper half, the live line map on the lower half
Stood like a laptop.
iPhone Duo closed: the Victoria line board at Oxford Circus, with the Back, Live Activity and map buttons in a column on the right-hand side
Closed.
  • Open it like a book. Your saved platforms sit on the left and the board on the right. Open the map and it takes the right half, with the board on the left.
  • Stand it like a laptop. With the map open, the board sits above the fold and the map below it.
  • Close it. The app works as it does on any iPhone, with its buttons in a column down the side of the screen.

On iPad

iPad: the saved platforms list on the left, with the Victoria line at Oxford Circus selected and the 50 bus at Clapham Common stop D below it; the Oxford Circus board on the right
Your saved platforms beside the board.
iPad: the 50 bus board at Clapham Common stop D on the left, with two buses to Stockwell marked with a snowflake and three timetabled buses; on the right, the live bus map of route 50 with the two buses on the road and the list of the next buses below
The live bus map beside the board.

Every train on the line

With Plus, tap the map on a Tube platform's board to see the line live, with the trains running your platform's way, and find out whether the wait you are facing is normal.

  • Where each train is and which way it is heading. Tap one for where it is going and its next station. Where lines share the track, as round the Circle, their trains are shown too, in their own colours.
  • Gaps in the service. When two trains are much further apart than usual, the stretch between them is marked with the wait and what it usually is. Gaps are judged among the trains you are looking at, and the ones you would wait through at your platform come first.
  • Just your trains. Pick destinations, or on the Northern line a branch, to bring their trains forward. The ones you chose on the board come with you.

Tube lines only. TfL publishes arrival times, not where trains are, so positions are estimated from those times.

The live map of the Circle line, eastbound, zoomed to Paddington: the track between two trains marked red and labelled 7 min, and below the map a legend for the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan trains sharing the track, and the unusual gaps: 7 min before Edgware Road, tagged Your wait, where 2 min is usual, 10 min from Edgware Road on and 9 min from Tower Hill on

Screenshots

From iPhone.

  • The saved list: Northern line at Clapham Common, Jubilee line at Canary Wharf, Victoria line at Brixton, and the 50 bus from Clapham Common Station stop D, each with its line colour
    Your platforms and bus stops, in the order you choose.
  • The Northern line board at Clapham Common, northbound platform 1: Northern line good service, then a train to Mill Hill East via Bank due, to Edgware via Bank in 2 and 9 minutes and to High Barnet via Bank in 5 and 13, with buttons for a Live Activity and the line map
    A platform's board: the line's status, then the next trains.
  • The 50 board at Clapham Common Station stop D: buses to Stockwell in 15 and 26 minutes, each with its registration and a snowflake
    A bus stop's board. The snowflake marks buses likely to be air-conditioned.
  • Adding a bus stop: the routes that call at Clapham Common Station stop K, from 35 to N137
    Find a bus stop by name or by route, then pick the route you take.
  • A map of central London with a pin on every Tube, DLR and Elizabeth line station
    Or pick a station from the map.
  • The settings sheet: Open nearest platform, Show air conditioning and Share anonymous diagnostics switches, the version and a privacy policy link
    Settings: open the nearest platform, show air conditioning, and diagnostics you can switch off.
The Dynamic Island showing two countdowns: the next train in 0:11 and the one after in 10:41 A Live Activity for King's Cross St. Pancras, westbound platform 5: Uxbridge in 0:15 and Rayners Lane in 10:45, in amber dot-matrix type
A Live Activity in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, counting down to your next trains.

Contact

Questions, ideas or something not working? Get in touch:

app@tflplatforms.co.uk

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 21 October 2026

TfL Platforms has no accounts, no adverts and no tracking. It does not collect your name, contact details or location, and nothing it sends can be linked to you. This page sets out what does leave your device, and why.

Arrival times

Arrival times, timetables, bus routes and line status come from Transport for London's (TfL) open data. The app requests them through our own server, which runs on Cloudflare and passes the request on to TfL. As with any internet request, Cloudflare processes your IP address in order to answer it. We do not keep a record of it or use it to identify you.

Your saved platforms

The platforms and bus stops you save are stored on your device. If iCloud is switched on for the app, Apple syncs them between your own devices through your iCloud account. We cannot see them.

Location

If you allow it, the app uses your location to centre the station map and the bus stop map and, when you switch that setting on, to open your nearest saved platform. Your location is used on your device only. It is never sent to us or to anyone else.

Live Activities

When you start a Live Activity, the app sends our server the platform or bus stop you are following and a token that lets Apple deliver updates to that Live Activity. The token identifies the Live Activity, not you. We delete this when the Live Activity ends, and in any case within 12 hours.

Plus

Plus is bought through the App Store, and Apple handles the payment. The app checks with the App Store whether you have Plus and keeps the answer on your device. We never receive your payment details or your Apple Account.

Anonymous diagnostics

To keep the app reliable, it sends anonymous diagnostics: when the app is opened, brought to the front or put in the background, how long requests to TfL took, whether they failed, and the TfL identifiers of the station and line requested. They contain no names, no location and no device or user identifiers. They are processed by Honeycomb, a monitoring service, on our behalf. You can switch this off in the app under Settings, "Share anonymous diagnostics".

Third-party services

  • Transport for London: arrival times and line status.
  • Cloudflare: runs the servers the app talks to.
  • Apple: the maps, iCloud sync, Live Activity updates and Plus purchases.
  • Honeycomb: anonymous diagnostics.

None of them receive your name, contact details or location from the app. This website uses no cookies or analytics.

Changes to this policy

If the app changes what it sends, this page will be updated and the date above will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy: app@tflplatforms.co.uk