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Old January 24th 07, 12:22 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Thomas Covenant Thomas Covenant is offline
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Default Trains no longer waiting for pulling-up train

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:27:13 +0000, Barry Salter
wrote:

Paul Corfield wrote:


TfL publishes where it does it timing checks for each route and on my
local route the checks are most certainly not done at the extreme ends
of the route.

snip

Some of them a
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/about/pe...ocationsq2.pdf
(Page 16 for the 123 locations)

The trouble with my usual local route (the W6) is that the measuring
points *are* at the terminals, but as the monitoring doesn't take place
from first bus to last bus and the drivers know when they're being
monitored, it produces results that bear very little resemblance to reality.


http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/about/pe...ocationsq2.pdf
(bottom of page 40 for the W6)

Shows a location called Palmers Green II was used during the last
published quarter. The previous issue shows that Palmers Green II has
been used from 01/04/06.
I believe that Palmers Green II is the junction of Green Lanes and
Hedge Lane.