December 2009 Timetable

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[willc]

A telephone call to FGW^▸ (First Great Western) customer services suggests that the new timetable wont be on the website until about a week before it starts.
Can this be correct ? does give much notice of any major changes.

It is, however, now in the FGW website journey planner, along with times up to December 31 - which is a bit daft given that with New Year's Day falling on a Friday this time round, you would have though that putting on the following couple of days' services as well would make sense to help people plan ahead, but that's FGW logic for you...

And yes, I know some people like to have the whole service laid out in front of them on a printed page or pdf, but in the days before the internet, it usually was only about a week before the change when you could get your hands on a new pocket timetable.

[Btline]

It's useful to be able to look up train times.

But when it comes down to it, I like a timetable booklet. (preferably with some substance, unlike the FGW^▸ (First Great Western) bit of card)

I do not want to have to waste time, ink and paper printing off reams of pdfs onto A4 paper!

[TheLastMinute]

And today's revived from the dead thread is....

The Dec' 09 timetables have now been published on the FGW^▸ (First Great Western) website.

TLM

[DevonTrains2008]

No, Waterloo is Britain's busiest station by passenger numbers. Not sure what the world's busiest is...

How come that it says something along the lines of : Welcome to Clapham Junction - Britain's Busiest Railway Station; on the sign then?

I think waterloo is the largest?

[Mookiemoo]

No, Waterloo is Britain's busiest station by passenger numbers. Not sure what the world's busiest is...

How come that it says something along the lines of : Welcome to Clapham Junction - Britain's Busiest Railway Station; on the sign then?

I think waterloo is the largest?

I think Clapham is busier in terms of train numbers

[devon_metro]

Far, far busier. Combined with the South Western lines that go to Waterloo, you also have London Overground on the West London Line and the mainline between East Croydon and London Victoria originating from the South Coast.

All you need to do is look at the departure boards, and bear in mind not everything stops there!

[Tim]

Waterloo has 62 million passenger entry exits per year and Clapham junction only 12.5 million.  However 2000 train pass through it each day (most stopping).  It is number 1 on the UK^▸ (United Kingdom) for number of trains stopping and number 1 in Europe for total number of trains passing though if you add in the non-stoppers.  About 200,000 per day use the station as an interchange and it is numbr 1 in the UK for NR^» (Network Rail - home page) to NR interchange also.

[Tim]

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_station#Largest_and_busiest_stations  for more info

[IndustryInsider]

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_station#Largest_and_busiest_stations  for more info

Blimey, over 3.5 million punters a day using Shinjuku Station in Japan and over 200 exits? That's not the sort of place you'd want to spend any time if you were claustrophobic!