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Central Line Timetable
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 Admits to working for London Underground! |
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