Prompted by another of today's threads I thought I'd post this.

There is one feature of the TfL Journey Planner I find very useful,
though judging by the reactions from friends and acquaintances when I
point them towards it I don't think it is well known about. It is the
ability to call up a PDF of a bus timetable which appears exactly the
same as those actually displayed at bus stops. (Tram timetables are
available through this facility as well.)

The Timetables lookup facility can be found from the Journey Planner
front page by clicking on the "Timetables" link on the right hand side
under the "See also" text, or by following this link:
http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_SEL_STT_REQUEST?sessionID=0&language=en&mode...:*&linePreSel=tfl:63:*
or via <http://tinyurl.com/cfmo3>

The same facility will also give you timetables for Underground
stations, however in most cases these only show the first and last
train from the station and otherwise merely indicate trains "about
every x minutes" - though at least some of the timetables for stations
on the extremities can more illuminating.

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:23:12 -0800 (PST), Mizter T gmail.com>
wrote:

Apologies for raining on your parade but those timetables are not
necessarily the same as appears at local bus stops. It would be good if
they were aligned but they aren't. This aspect of London's information
provision really, really makes me cross.

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:39:37 +0000, Paul Corfield
dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

Agreed. IMO, these "intervals" are only acceptable where the
frequency is better than every 10 minutes. 15 minutes is a long time
to wait in the freezing cold and pouring rain when you don't know when
the bus will turn up.

Neil

On 25 Nov, 16:39, Paul Corfield dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:11:59 -0800 (PST), Mizter T gmail.com>
wrote:

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:07:02 +0000, Paul Corfield
dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

The other reason is, AIUI, that you require a tachograph if running a
bus service where a running board is not carried and stuck to as far
as possible. Or does TfL get away with that as it isn't subject to
the normal local bus registration procedure?

Neil

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Mizter T wrote:

What i want are the maps at (some?) tube platform showing the line, with
each destination marked with home many minutes it takes to get there. This
info isn't hard to extract from the journey planner, but there are times
when it'd be handy.

tom

On 26 Nov, 01:39, Tom Anderson wrote:

You can get that information, along with a line diagram, by selecting
the station from the drop-down list on that JP Timetables page -
scroll down the page and look for the "Tube timetable - Tube station"
section.

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Mizter T wrote:

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:23:12 -0800 (PST), Mizter T
gmail.com> wrote: