December 2022 WTT's

[Peter749]

Why are the December WTT's so bad?

For some reason the timetables are in Excel format - which is not too bad - but the amount of extra lines in the spreadsheets is silly.

Every location has 4 or 5 lines for

arr - but not every one is used
pass - not required in the past as a train not calling had a / in the time - like 08/35 - everyone on the railway understands that
dep - each departure has a Capital T in the time - like 08T35, sometimes a B is included 08TB35 - there is nothing to say what the T or B means
Running Line - Even though it might not be possible to change running lines at that location
Allowance. - not required at every station/junction

Then there are no platforms shown at any location and despite the times being in an Excel Sheet they are not in time order

Example in book CB02 Down Line - Heaton Chapel just had dep and Levenshulme had dep and mgn

Now both stations have
Pass
Dep
Running Line
Allowance

So we go from 1 or 2 lines to 4 for each location.

What are they thinking of?

Peter

 

[jopsuk]

is it a format that's been designed for machine reading? Eg not using / to avoid "escape" errors, instead having separate arr/pass/dep fields

 

[splashoutradio]

The WTTs aren't great this time round.

If I was to hazard a guess, the planning departments (and the hard working staff within said departments) are having a pretty rotten time at the moment, so this may have something to do with it.

If there's a route you'd be interested in (all trains between Manchester Piccadilly & Stockport, for example), I can have a tinker with the RailwayData timetabling software, and make a WTT for you.

 

[Peter749]

I wonder how they managed to leave out the Platform numbers at the stations?

== Doublepost prevention - post automatically merged: 4 Dec 2022 ==

The WTTs aren't great this time round.

If I was to hazard a guess, the planning departments (and the hard working staff within said departments) are having a pretty rotten time at the moment, so this may have something to do with it.

If there's a route you'd be interested in (all trains between Manchester Piccadilly & Stockport, for example), I can have a tinker with the RailwayData timetabling software, and make a WTT for you.

Thanks for the offer but I was mainly looking at Freight Workings around Manchester although they have not changed much.

RTT does a good job of working out what goes where and it has Platform Numbers

 

[Freightmaster]

RTT does a good job of working out what goes where and it has Platform Numbers

So why do you need to refer to the WTTs at all?





MARK

 

[Peter749]

So why do you need to refer to the WTTs at all?





MARK

To view train routings around the country for when I go out travelling - The PSUL is also very useful for working out interesting routings

In the past the WTTs had more info than other than other sources
And I don't have to pay for it as I have to watch the pennies now I'm retired

Peter