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Old July 19th 16, 12:11 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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(Clive Page) wrote:

On 17/07/2016 10:02, Roland Perry wrote:
Ever since the government scrapped the "Transport Direct", I use
Google Maps. It's simple and reliable.

Do you know whether it has up-to-date info on engineering works etc?
I tried to find out but Google's algorithms seem to be hidden.


Not hard to check if it respects which trains are not calling at London
Bridge now, surely?


the thing about the LB engineering is that it is long term and
reflected in the twice annual published timetables

It's the odd weekend engineering that is only released a week or two
before that's the problem to collect

(I have no idea if Google do this or not)


It's supposed to be at least 12 weeks before these days, barring things like
Eden Brow.

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Colin Rosenstiel