London Banter - View Single Post - Live travel news vs. Live departure boards

[email protected] · November 15th 13, 01:00 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:45:06 -0000, "Robin" wrote:

Around noon today Live travel news on TfL's website was showing the
North London Line still with severe delays following the earlier track
problems; but at the same time the Live departure boards were showing
trains every 10 minutes at e.g. Highbury and Islington. And the person
for whom I was looking said there were trains with only the odd
cancellation. Is it normal for the 2 to be out of step please? And for
the departure boards to be the better guide?

IME it is normal for there to be a disparity during an advertised
disruption. I am not really convinced that the "severe delays" /
"Minor delays" methodology works terribly well on much of the
Overground network given the relatively lower frequencies than on much
of the tube.

I tend to put more weight on Live Departure Boards or Realtime Trains
because the data is from Network Rail's systems and more likely to be
accurate.

If the data comes from NR systems, what about the ELL?

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Colin Rosenstiel