Days of Operation

[sheffters]

Hi,

I'm after a list of all the acronyms used for the Days of Operation, e.g.

EWD = Every Week Day
SX = Operates Mon-Fri
M = Mon
T = Tuesday
W = Wed
H = Thurs
F = Fri
S = Sat
U = Sunday
O = Only e.g. FO = Fri Only
X = excluded

etc etc.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

thanks!

 

[thefab444]

Thursday is Th not H, and Sunday is Su not U.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Tu = Tuesday
Th = Thursday
S = Saturday
Su = Sunday
SX = Sunday-Friday
SuX = Monday-Saturday
SSUX = Monday-Friday

 

[Liam]

SX = Operates Mon-Fri

Not Saturday.

 

[sheffters]

Brill, thanks!

I'm probably loads missing? Is there a 'master' list anywhere?

cheers

 

[flymo]

From the National Rail Timetable

M Monday
T Tuesday
W Wednesday
Th Thursday
F Friday
S Saturday
Su Sunday
• Adding ‘O’ to the abbreviation for the day or days
(eg WO) means the train runs only on the day or
days preceding the ‘O’
• Adding ‘X’ to the abbreviation for the day or days
(eg FX) means the train runs on all the days in this
section of the Timetable except the day or days
preceding the ‘X’

Hope this helps a bit.

 

[thefab444]

Not Saturday.

It depends, strictly speaking SX means "Saturdays Excluded", but because the Sunday timetable tends to be completely different SX is more commonly used to mean "Weekends Excluded" or Monday to Friday - which technically should be SSuX.

Certainly whenever I use/read SX I take it to mean Monday to Friday rather than Sunday to Friday.

 

[driver9000]

BHX - Bank Holidays Excepted.

 

[The Planner]

We don't use SSUX, Monday to Friday is simply SX. Weekends are always SO and Su. I can't imagine ever having a Monday to Saturday service either and have never seen SuX.

 

[rail-britain]

EWD = Every Week Day

I've never seen that used on timetables, but it does appear in documents
Where did you get your list? (As it looks more commercial than railway)

 

[sheffters]

I've never seen that used on timetables, but it does appear in documents
Where did you get your list? (As it looks more commercial than railway)

I've not got a list ... there just ones I've seen before and remember from when I was at NR ... mainly from the old PROTIM days that used H for Thurs instead of Th so they were all single letter.

I've just never seen a master list anywhere of what they should be ... e.g. all the discussion above about SX - I've always taken it to be Mon to Fri, even though technically it is Mon to Fri plus Sunday as it should mean Sat Excluded and EWD should mean Mon - Fri but is rarely used.

I'm really after understanding what is common practice for abbreviations nowerdays ... the NRT has some, but not things like EWD / BHX etc.

Cheers

 

[The Planner]

PROTIM ?? blimey, that is going back a bit !

 

[hairyhandedfool]

It depends, strictly speaking SX means "Saturdays Excluded", but because the Sunday timetable tends to be completely different SX is more commonly used to mean "Weekends Excluded" or Monday to Friday - which technically should be SSuX.

Certainly whenever I use/read SX I take it to mean Monday to Friday rather than Sunday to Friday.

To be fair, most timetables I know of have separate pages for Sundays (as virtually every weekday service is either SuX or SSuX). SX typically being used on a Mon-Sat timetable where there is only a few changes (former NSE area timetables tend to have separate Monday-Friday, Saturday and Sunday timetables in my experience).

 

[rail-britain]

from the old PROTIM days

I am fairly sure that from training to use this (and many other BR based systems) the users were provided with a manual and there was a section with all the abbreviations to be used
I had one for TOPS many years ago, again specific to those that had been trained in its use
When I worked for InterCity I was provided with a book on how to use the Seat Reservation system, this had all the station names in it

As above, most public timetables are now Mon - Fri, Sat, Sun whereas previously they used to be Mon - Sat, Sun, or even Mon - Sun

Equally, in the Glasgow area many of the services used to be plastered with BHX and MHX, again this has pretty much been ended