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7 unusual facts about Public transport timetable


Estimated time of arrival

One of the more common uses is in public transportation where the movements of trains, buses, airplanes and the like can be used to generate estimated times of arrival depending on either a static timetable or through measurements on traffic intensity.

Guide-A-Ride

It is a rectangular box attached to the bus stop pole that displays a route map and a schedule.

Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company

Lieutenant-Governor Sir Charles Hotham and Lady Hotham were aboard the train - which consisted of two first class carriages and one second class - and were presented with satin copies of the railway's timetable and bylaws.

Public transport timetable

These thick books - the February 2009 edition of the JTB timetable, for example, contains 1152 pages - are published every month and cover all stations and trains of JR and private railways, as well as long distance bus, ferry and air services.

Ryongchon disaster

If the incident did involve a train collision, it has been suggested that the cause of the accident may have been a miscommunication related to the changes in train timetables due to Kim Jong-il's itinerary.

Salwick railway station

Salwick is served by only three trains towards Preston/Colne and four towards Blackpool a day, but it is not a formal request stop; trains are timetabled to stop there.

Trentham Park Branch Line

It left the main line at Trentham Junction where there was a platform connected by a short path to Trentham station, although Trentham Junction itself never appeared as a separate station in the timetable.


Slovenská strela

In the 2010-timetable and from 2012 onwards, the train was operating on route Bratislava - Břeclav as EC 277/278 with through coaches from Bratislava to Prague and Ostseebad Binz, and from Prague detaching from EC 177 to Vienna.


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