Available for free on the Apple and Google Play stores, the Window Seater app delivers an immersive in-train experience, with place-based stories that cover a range of subjects from history and geography to art, culture and community – including many connected to this year’s 200th anniversary of the modern railway.
Window Seater’s informative, lively and simple-to-use guides draw on local voices along the railway line, featuring historians, geologists, tour guides, railway enthusiasts and many others.
Window Seater offers:
- Guides for adults and children (with dedicated child-friendly features including a talking goose guide, maps and gamification)
- Offline functionality – you don’t need to have access to a mobile network to listen
- Embedded points of interest and further reading related to audio stories
- Dual language in English and Welsh (for Welsh guides)
Listeners will hear about Railway 200-related themes including:
- The Stockton & Darlington’s railway revolution in Eaglescliffe
- The Mallard’s record-breaking speed
- Stories of Brunel’s Box Tunnel and Maidenhead bridge
- A certain bear at Paddington station
… and many general interest stories on routes around the UK including hidden rivers that weave underneath the railway; surprising stories of Concorde, Spitfire and the Titanic; Woking’s alien invasion; pioneering women in motorsport; Hertfordshire’s Hollywood; Yorkshire’s coal country; Bradford’s cultural tapestry; a political monkey in Sunderland; DJ Jo Whiley’s musical stories; the Welsh Atlantis; Queen Victoria’s knickers and much more!
Working with partners including LNER, Transport for Wales, Grand Central, National Rail and the Community Rail Network, Window Seater currently offers 21 guides around the UK including:
- London to Edinburgh, Bristol, Oxford, Sheffield and Southampton
- Scenic routes in Wales including the Cambrian and Conwy Valley lines
- Assorted regional routes around southern England
Find out more about Window Seater and download the app and all the guides for free.
You can get in touch with the Window Seater team here.