"Phil" wrote in message
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Paul Scott wrote:
For anyone coming late to this discussion, the NR timetables have been
reissued this morning, and the faults we were discussing appear to have
been overcome. In particular the columns appear to be sorted correctly
left to right so that trains through NXG appear in their correct time
order.

Is there a prize for spotting the first error? Can I go with the second
line on the first page which says

Sunday 23 May 2009 to Saturday 11 December 2010

More attention to detail required, I think.

--
Phil
Liverpool, UK

Somewhere around the mid 1970s it was decreed on Southern that every station
should have "commuter cards" showing Monday to Friday train services for
that station or small group of stations. This was subsequently extended to
cover weekends as well.

Compilation of these very fiddly documents was naturally not expected to
need more staff, we just fitted it in along with everything else. And they
were a nightma had to be typed or hand written first to go to the
printer, draft returned for checking and correcting, returned to printer,
sent back with old errors corrected (usually) and new errors introduced and
so on. Finally published just as more timetable changes would be announced
etc.

This was all done by hand, hot metal and sweat. The current lot with
computers and handy office printers and us lot providing free beta testing
don't know what real life is like. They really need to pull their socks up
PDQ.

MaxB