FGW summer timetable 2014

[whole diary]

[bobm]

I am well aware of benefits of digital and am grateful for it in so many ways, but I also like a paper copy of certain things in life. I've paid my ^4 so please don't lecture me. If you want to reduce your carbon footprint FGW^▸ (First Great Western) why don't you make the Network Timetable available online as a digital edition? Easy to do and a pdf version would be fine. Wouldn't need to go to the trouble of producing a version such as 'flip book.'

I did raise this last year with the publications department and their response was basically "you can download the individual pdfs from the website and make your own". 

[thetrout]

I am well aware of benefits of digital and am grateful for it in so many ways, but I also like a paper copy of certain things in life. I've paid my ^4 so please don't lecture me. If you want to reduce your carbon footprint FGW^▸ (First Great Western) why don't you make the Network Timetable available online as a digital edition? Easy to do and a pdf version would be fine. Wouldn't need to go to the trouble of producing a version such as 'flip book.'

Perhaps if they saved the pages for every time that advert would appear they might reduce their carbon footprint.

American Airlines saved a rather large sum of money from withdrawing olives in their First Class meals in the 1980s. Consequently there was some upset about this and the decision was reversed to "Available on request"

[Timmer]

I did raise this last year with the publications department and their response was basically "you can download the individual pdfs from the website and make your own". 

Hmmm, there's a lot in the book that isn't on the website or individual timetables. A complete set of Sunday timetables for a start.

[ChrisB]

As this book (with certain extra pages) is produced for staff, the incremental cost in producing public copies is a small figure, covered by the cover charge. If the staff ever go digital, you can guarantee that the overall cost of continued production for public copies would be too high.

[Timmer]

Good to see that Central books 1 and 3 now include a full set of Sunday timetables, well the online versions do. Don't know if the expanded versions are going to appear as printed versions at stations:

Central 1: http://bit.ly/1mO0Kk6

Central 3: http://bit.ly/1ksnwfO