BluePenguin
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I have never bothered to look too closely at times of the underground but it seems they behave very differently to the way trains do.
I was looking up a journey earlier and I noticed that although the total travel time was 10 minutes, it said it will take 12 minutes in total. I then looked up the individual timetables for each line on the route I was planning to take and found that the start and end times didn't actually exist.
See in my screenshot the time given of the Victoria line is 13:55. No time is given stating what time the Bakerloo line train will arrive or depart, it only say that it will take 6 minutes. I wonder whether it is making this up.
Could this journey be done in 10 minutes possibly?
I know that the tube is supposed to be turn up and go, but I don't understand this at all as most timetables and journey planners have specific arrival and departure times. Does the journey planner go "hmm well there is a tube arriving around that time so I will just pluck a random departure time out of the air, assume it takes a minute to change trains and stick 2 minutes on the end to allow for leaving the station"?
I was looking up a journey earlier and I noticed that although the total travel time was 10 minutes, it said it will take 12 minutes in total. I then looked up the individual timetables for each line on the route I was planning to take and found that the start and end times didn't actually exist.
See in my screenshot the time given of the Victoria line is 13:55. No time is given stating what time the Bakerloo line train will arrive or depart, it only say that it will take 6 minutes. I wonder whether it is making this up.
Could this journey be done in 10 minutes possibly?
I know that the tube is supposed to be turn up and go, but I don't understand this at all as most timetables and journey planners have specific arrival and departure times. Does the journey planner go "hmm well there is a tube arriving around that time so I will just pluck a random departure time out of the air, assume it takes a minute to change trains and stick 2 minutes on the end to allow for leaving the station"?
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