This is one of those things that does not sound very interesting but is actually really cool.

Last year I blogged about some really cool stuff that Microsoft had been doing with National Rail Enquiries.

This video shows you the concept

Anyhow, several months have lapsed and I was beginning to wonder if this concept was ever going to make it to reality.

Well good news.

I have today discovered that at least part of this concept is now reality and really neat Outlook Add-In can now be downloaded (for free) from the National Rail Enquiries Website.

As you will see, this can be a really useful tool if like me you rely on your Outlook calendar to organise your day. The ability to set up an appointment for a meeting and then let this tool work out how to get there via train really can save a lot of time.

So have a look, download it for free and have a play.

if you want to know more about the team and technology behind this then check out Mark Bloodworths blog (mark is an Architect Evangelist over at Microsoft) or David Gristwoods blog (also Microsoft).