west of england timetable 1975/6

[westernpunk]

anyone know anywhere i can download, the public timetable for paddington to west of england timetables for may 75 - may 1976, tried tometable world, but they only have regional tables up to 1973.
any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[hexagon789]

anyone know anywhere i can download, the public timetable for paddington to west of england timetables for may 75 - may 1976, tried tometable world, but they only have regional tables up to 1973.
any help would be greatly appreciated.

It'll be in the GBTT - I.e. the Great Britain-wide one.

In May 1974, BR launched the GBTT replacing the previous regional timetables. (The Scottish and Southern Regions continued to produce their own regional timetables after May 1974 though.)

 

[jfollows]

British Rail 1975-05 [Great Britain] – Timetable World

timetableworld.com

I’ve bought several of these and, from time to time, have posted extracts in response to requests like yours, but I don’t have this one and think that £10 is good value and good support for a good resource anyway.

 

[westernpunk]

id forgotten, about stopping regional ones, , im mainly interested in padd penzance section i wonder if the pocket timetables are anywhere , to be downloaded, if not as you say, £10 is reasonable, for an excellent resource, thanks for the advice.

 

[The exile]

id forgotten, about stopping regional ones, , im mainly interested in padd penzance section i wonder if the pocket timetables are anywhere , to be downloaded, if not as you say, £10 is reasonable, for an excellent resource, thanks for the advice.

I suspect that in real terms it’s cheaper than whatever the original would have set you back!

 

[westernpunk]

I suspect that in real terms it’s cheaper than whatever the original would have set you back!

the original cost 75p in 1975. equivalent to £6.73 at todays prices

but i was happy to pay £10

 

[hexagon789]

I suspect that in real terms it’s cheaper than whatever the original would have set you back!

the original cost 75p in 1975. equivalent to £6.73 at todays prices

but i was happy to pay £10

If its any consolation, most of my secondhand but physical BR timetables cost me about £8 to £25 individually from various sources.

£10 is pretty fair in my experience.

My best deal was £50 for about 20 assorted timetable books and a variety of documents and leaflets from a retired BR employee who had no other interested bids and lived not far away, so I collected on foot!

 

[nw1]

If you go to the BR Coaching Stock group on groups.io, they have a lot of resources for the 70s and 80s for the Western Region. Not timetables, but Paddington working books, train marshalling documents, and so on. You can get a lot of insight into the London end, at least, of the Western Region across the two decades, right into the NSE era (most recent is 1989).

For example they have a working book for Paddington for summer 1975 which gives a good idea of the state of play at that time.

It looks like this is a transitional timetable pending the introduction of HSTs one year later and looks like something of an anomaly compared to the standard early/mid 70s timetable.
More typical for the era is the May 74-May 75 working book, also available from the BR Coaching Stock group.

Alternatively if you have any specific questions on Paddington workings from either year I can supply them as I've downloaded a lot of the documents onto my machine so can quickly look at them.

 

[westernpunk]

If you go to the BR Coaching Stock group on groups.io, they have a lot of resources for the 70s and 80s for the Western Region. Not timetables, but Paddington working books, train marshalling documents, and so on. You can get a lot of insight into the London end, at least, of the Western Region across the two decades, right into the NSE era (most recent is 1989).

For example they have a working book for Paddington for summer 1975 which gives a good idea of the state of play at that time.

It looks like this is a transitional timetable pending the introduction of HSTs one year later and looks like something of an anomaly compared to the standard early/mid 70s timetable.
More typical for the era is the May 74-May 75 working book, also available from Timetable World.

Alternatively if you have any specific questions on Paddington workings from either year I can supply them as I've downloaded a lot of the documents onto my machine so can quickly look at them.

thankyou i will certainly check out the BR coaching stock group, and also thanks for your very kind offer

 

[nw1]

thankyou i will certainly check out the BR coaching stock group, and also thanks for your very kind offer

No worries!

Sorry I noticed a typo in my original message (now edited): the May 74-May 75 working book is on the group, not on Timetable World.