Whilst I broadly agree I must admit that RealTimeTrains with its filtering options is making even that use of timetables a thing of the past for me. It's very easy to fire up RTT put in an origin, insert a calling at for later in the journey and set it to cover the whole twenty four hour period. It's how I scan for service frequency and the times during which the service runs these days.
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LNER Timetable change: should a footnote be provided when a train is extended ?
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Whilst I broadly agree I must admit that RealTimeTrains with its filtering options is making even that use of timetables a thing of the past for me. It's very easy to fire up RTT put in an origin, insert a calling at for later in the journey and set it to cover the whole twenty four hour period. It's how I scan for service frequency and the times during which the service runs these days.
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iantherev
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I admit that planning my forthcoming Freedom of the SW Rover journeys using RTT has been much easier than swapping between timetables and I's someone who would describe themselves as a timetable aficionado. Each to their own however and I can understand why others may prefer something printed.
IanD
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Is Euston closed? I thought it was open this weekend.
Euston is OPEN this weekend. However it is a two track railway south of MK, so there is a reduced service and journey times extended.
The WCML is shut north of Gretna, though, so no through Anglo-Scottish services via Carlisle.
Tetchytyke
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Could have sworn it was shut this weekend too, but I stand corrected!
Glenn1969
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Trains to Edinburgh via Birmingham are on RTT at 0553 and 0811 on Saturday
There is a very limited VT service on Sunday with no VT departures before 0916, only 6 trains from Euston running North of Preston and nothing at all North of Lancaster
Guess EC to Scotland will be even busier than usual
There is a very limited VT service on Sunday with no VT departures before 0916, only 6 trains from Euston running North of Preston and nothing at all North of Lancaster
Guess EC to Scotland will be even busier than usual
causton
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I think they should print a different timetable book for every day the timetable is different.
Which is almost every day...
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Which is almost every day...
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IanD
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The printed version of the National Rail Timetable used to have a supplement at Christmas listing all the changes. Sometimes a whole table would be reprinted but the rest was just a list of services table by table which had changed in which case it was a right pain in the whatsit to decipher and work out what was running and when. Although I do like a printed table, thank god we have online journey planners these days.
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The trains referred are STP trains rather than variations in Real Time trains which means the original train has been 'cancelled' and replaced with a new (STP) schedule. When East Coast ran hourly on weekdays to Edinburgh the Newcastle services were extended to / from Edinburgh on Bank Holiday Mondays as people didn't travel back on Sunday afternoons as they would on a normal weekend.
Steve Harris
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I don't know why. I had no trouble understanding the supplements.
Usually a whole Table was reprinted because there were so many changes, in this case, you just read the infomation in the reprinted Table (as the normal timetable didn't apply on the date (which was printed at the top of the page in the supplement)).
When there was only a few changes, there would be a list of notes, ( normally a later arrival time or joining cut short / extended).
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