# Follow London Trains in 3D

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Follow London Trains in 3D and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Fans find this fun and therapeutic 3D view of London trains, though it is buggy with layering and map alignment issues.

## What people warn about

- Map and 3D layers misaligned (3 comments): "the map seems to be in the wrong position vs. the trains/3d elements" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48832357)) "There seems to be some parallax issues between your trip layer and your 3D Tiles layer" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833529)) "the tracks arent grounded to the map, they slide all over" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836794))
- Buggy dragging, arrow keys, tiles (3 comments): "Interesting but quite buggy. Example: mouse dragging seems trapped in a fairly small area." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833390)) "A bit buggy in term of tiles jonctions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834658)) "Arrow keys not working :(" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833231))
- Missing London Underground branches (2 comments): "It would appear you are missing the High Barnet branch of the Northern line." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48832807)) "Looks like many (all?) branches are missing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835788))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Follow London Trains in 3D", https://hackerapproved.com/p/follow-london-trains-in-3d/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).