May - Dec 2010 Timetable now online at Network Rail

[MKB]

The direct hourly Virgin RUG-EUS services appear to have all disappeared from table 66.

 

[Flying Snail]

This joke of a document has not been updated as far as I can see and it is less than a week to it's validity. Will it ever be brought up to a useable standard or will they just ignore it and point people to the online journey planners and callcentre drones?

What about the printed timetables, have these appeared yet? I can't imagine the two publishers, Middleton Press in particular, being happy about releasing this fault-ridden timetable under their name.

 

[route101]

Ive not seen any of thee new date timetables at stations.

 

[swt_passenger]

Ive not seen any of thee new date timetables at stations.

If you mean TOC timetable booklets you won't usually see them yet. They'll normally have them behind the counter if you ask, but they don't normally go in the racks yet to avoid people using them too early accidentally, especially if the changes are major...

 

[route101]

yep toc timetables . In the past theyve had them out two weeks in advance.

 

[Ivo]

This is a fair point actually. I remember that, even as recently as 2007, SWT used to stock both current and forthcoming timetables at Waterloo, but thus far - with less than a week to go - as yet, nothing. In fact, Bath Spa have had a new delivery of Winter timetables!

 

[CarterUSM]

ScotRail currently have theirs available.

 

[route101]

yeah they had 2 separate stocks . Maybe its ok if they have different designs.

 

[Aictos]

This is a fair point actually. I remember that, even as recently as 2007, SWT used to stock both current and forthcoming timetables at Waterloo, but thus far - with less than a week to go - as yet, nothing. In fact, Bath Spa have had a new delivery of Winter timetables!

Wow, that really is forward thinking!

 

[merlodlliw]

The All Wales Franchise timetables are now out, edition one, which covers Chester/Wrexham,/Shrewsbury line as managed to get it correct listing all trains
of the three tocs. Ask at the counter for them , my copy was posted to me last week

However there remains confusion on the extra W/S service in July which is shown running to/from Wrexham whereas W/S only list it to Shrewsbury on their website. I have given up with the Nat Rail version.

 

[philjo]

FCC have had their new timetables in the racks at GN line stations (I have seen them at Letchworth Garden City, Stevenage & Potters Bar) since the beginning of May.
It is also available on the website.

 

[tbtc]

yep toc timetables . In the past theyve had them out two weeks in advance.

The new London Midland ones were out in Birmingham on Saturday (but I didn't notice new ones at Sheffield)

 

[flymo]

Ding ding ding, seconds out - Round 2.

Now updated again.

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/6903.aspx

Still don't like the layout.

 

[swt_passenger]

Ding ding ding, seconds out - Round 2.

Now updated again.

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/6903.aspx

Still don't like the layout.

I see they still can't cope with overtaking properly. Table 158 has the slow Poole trains at xx39 leaving Waterloo after the following xx05 fast, (eg 1505 is followed by the 1439) which makes them incorrectly ordered until Southampton where the fast overtakes.

Most of them are then wrong again after Brockenhurst, where the next fast train overtakes...

 

[D6975]

Regarding the GC West Yorks service, it only shows in tables 41 and 26, the section from Brighouse to Doncaster doesn't appear in tables 32 and 39 which they should.
Another howler I've just noticed is that the Leeds - Man Vic via Dewsbury and Copy Pit service has vanished from table 39, it only shows up in table 41.

EDIT and the Huddersfield - Leeds stoppers don't show in 41, so travellers from Mirfield and intermediate stops to Leeds have to consult 2 different tables to see the full stopping service to Leeds.
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I see they still can't cope with overtaking properly. Table 158 has the slow Poole trains at xx39 leaving Waterloo after the following xx05 fast, (eg 1505 is followed by the 1439) which makes them incorrectly ordered until Southampton where the fast overtakes.

Most of them are then wrong again after Brockenhurst, where the next fast train overtakes...

Never mind overtaking, there are numerous instances of trains that run completely behind another service appearing in front of it in the timetable....

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The new timetable was published yesterday, and is available from certain WH Smith outlets, priced at £16.00

However, in the latest edition, TSO have squeezed two pages worth of timetables onto each A5-sized page, making the font size now so small as to be almost unreadable without a magnifying glass !

 

[Peter Mugridge]

What?!

Do you mean they've made it the same ridiculously small print size as the Middleton version? :_|

I'll give you one clue as to why I have always bought the TSO version instead of the Middleton one...
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Well, following on from the above ^^^^^ I bought my copy today and I find that the smaller print, while a pain, isn't as bad as I had feared.

And in fact I find the new font style, while more difficult on the computer, is actually easier to read on paper than the older style.