On 13 Mar 2007 11:18:41 -0700, "Paul Weaver"
wrote:

On Monday morning, an entertaining driver on the central line informed
us that this was "the 09:18 from Woodford, calling all stations to
West Ruislip, due to Stratford at 09:xx, Liverpool street at 09:yy,
and Holborn at 09:zz"

While this is guessable (Epping to White City takes bang on an hour on
most trips), I am dimly ware that there are working timetables for
tube lines.

All lines have working timetables measured to the ½ minute for timing
purposes.

How often to trains run to these times, and is it possible
to get a copy of these?

It's certainly the case that trains should run to these times as closely
as possible. In the mornings the Vic Line certainly runs in the right
sequence and usually to time when I'm catching it. Obviously if there is
a delay or failure then it can all go up the spout.

We have printed copies for each line but they are private. Old ones
sometimes appear at transport fairs. We also have a fantastic *intra*net
timetable facility which allows you to select line, date / day, location
and direction and it will bring up the times, train numbers and
destination. Very neat and includes temporary timetable info for those
days when there is engineering work and planned service alterations.

With a 10-15 minute wait at the extremeties,
even at 9AM, it would be nice to see when trains are due. Some lines
have a live ETA, but the central line doesn't. The WAP service at
http://wap.tfl.gov.uk/tfldepboard/ tends to break down whenever I try
and use it in anger

I think the argument is that services are typically so frequent that you
don't need a timetable. I don't agree with that myself and feel that at
places like Epping the minutes past the hour that trains are due to
leave should be provided on posters / leaflets.

Journey Planner has some information for Epping but it's far from ideal
- look under the timetables part and make the appropriate selections.
--
Paul C


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