Trivia: Bus routes with the same exact timetable on all seven days a week?

[stadler]

Can anyone think of any other bus routes that have the same exact timetable on seven days a week?

So it has to be exactly identical with the same amount of journeys on all seven days a week and the same exact timings at each stop on all seven days.

These are obviously very rare with less demand at weekends but i have found a surprising number that have the same exact timetable on seven days a week.

I can think of these following routes:

• 69 - Stagecoach South - Sefter Farm to Littlehampton
• 442 - Carlone Buses - Staines to Heathrow
• 593 - Carlone Buses - Staines to Lyne
• 725 - Stagecoach South - Sefter Farm to Portsmouth
• A60 - Diamond - Iver to Heathrow
• AZ1 - First Bristol - Severn Beach to Bristol
• AZ2 - First Bristol - Severn Beach to Newport
• AZ10 - First Wales - Swansea to Sketty Cross
• BK1 - Stagecoach South East - Eythorne to Margate
• GH1 - Gatwick Hoppa - Airport Hotels to Gatwick
• GH2 - Gatwick Hoppa - Airport Hotels to Gatwick
• H2B - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H2C - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H2D - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H2H - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H2P - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H2R - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H2X - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H5B - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H5C - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H5D - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H5H - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H5X - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• H30 - Diamond - Hatton Cross to Heathrow
• HB1 - United Minibuses - Airport Hotels to Gatwick
• HHL - Diamond - Airport Hotels to Heathrow
• N1 - Go Ahead - Brighton to Mile Oak
• N7 - Go Ahead - Brighton to Hove
• N555 - Diamond - Walton On Thames to Heathrow
• N700 - Stagecoach South - Brighton to Worthing
• NOVO - Bus 4 Us - Airport Hotels to Stansted
• PREM - Bus 4 Us - Airport Hotels to Stansted
• RHU - Diamond - Egham to Hox Park
• X442 - Carlone Buses - Staines to Heathrow
• Z3 - First Essex - Tilbury to Southend
• Z4 - First Essex - Tilbury to Pitsea

Is anyone aware of any other routes which operate with the same exact timetable on all seven days a week?

 

[GusB]

These are obviously very rare with less demand at weekends but i have found a surprising number that have the same exact timetable on seven days a week.

You've found a surprising number that have the exact same timetable, clearly they're not "obviously very rare"!

 

[stadler]

You've found a surprising number that have the exact same timetable, clearly they're not "obviously very rare"!

No but certainly still fairly rare. Almost all of them are either special work place buses or airport buses or night buses. I have yet to find any ordinary city routes that run to the same timetable seven days a week. The only ordinary daytime bus not serving a work place or airport is Carlone with the 593 which has just started running to the same timetable seven days a week. I reckon the only reason that does is because it interworks with the 442 and X442 airport buses.

 

[Dwarfer1979]

MC5 Melton Town Service operated by Centrebus manages it. The MC3 & MC4 are almost there but due to a school flow the first trip on the MC3 is 10-mins earlier on weekdays & the first trip on the MC4 extends to the school but with this exception it is the same service level/frequency 7-days a week (the MC1 & MC2 don't as the Sunday service drops a couple of trips for breaks on Sunday). It is something Leicestershire have done with their recent contracted town service revamps as the Market Harborough Town Services only don't qualify because they have added late buses on Friday/Saturday night but the Sunday timetable matches the Monday to Thursday timetable.

 

[Omnidekkalover]

High peak 62 between Buxton and Castleton maintains the same timetable 7 days a week

 

[Mister Ed]

In the Lake District, some of the Stagecoach routes from Keswick have the same timetable 7 days a week in the summer season, eg 77 and 77A running Keswick - Buttermere - Honister- Seatoller - Keswick or vice versa and 78 Keswick - Seatoller. (The latter is scheduled for open top buses, by the way.)

 

[joieman]

Arriva's service X45 (Leicester - Lutterworth - Magna Park) runs three journeys a day in each direction all week, apparently aligned with shifts at Magna Park, in common with the other buses that also serve Lutterworth on Sundays (8 (Hinckley - Lutterworth) and X84 (Rugby - Lutterworth)). The X45 also seems to be the only bus service running between Leicester and Lutterworth on Sundays, with the 84 running between Leicester and Broughton Astley only and the X84 not continuing from Lutterworth to Leicester either.

 

[cjhollyway]

In the Lake District, some of the Stagecoach routes from Keswick have the same timetable 7 days a week in the summer season, eg 77 and 77A running Keswick - Buttermere - Honister- Seatoller - Keswick or vice versa and 78 Keswick - Seatoller. (The latter is scheduled for open top buses, by the way.)

Similarly the 599 open top Bowness to Grasmere. Also runs in the winter season, to a reduced timetable, but the winter timetable is still identical seven days a week.

 

[Potter20]

Stagecoach West bus route 6 (Link Centre - Fleming Way - Symmetry Park) in Swindon fits this criteria - including "most bank holidays" according to the PDF timetable available on their website! Predominantly (or almost exclusively) for use of shift workers at the Amazon BRS2 fulfilment centre.

 

[nick291]

First West of England's 37, Knowle West, Melvin Square- Severn Beach, Govier Way has little to no variation in the timetable any day of the week

 

[M28361M]

In Merseyside there's the 897. It only does two return journeys from Kirkby to Huyton in the morning but according to the timetable it operates daily.

 

[Vexed]

After mentioning it on the work site bus routes thread (probably a decent overlap) I can mention Bluestar's 61 in Southampton again, from Bevois Valley to Nursling Indusrial Estate (Tesco Distribution Centre) via the city centre with 3 journeys daily at the exact same times.

61 - Bevois Valley - Nursling Industrial Estate

Bluestar

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