(01 Jun 2014, 5:52 pm)AdamY wrote Does anyone care to explain how two buses departing from the same stop, traversing the exact same route, have two different estimated times of how long it takes to get from Rowlands Gill to Newcastle?
http://liners.nexus.org.uk/20011.pdf
According to the timetable, service 45 takes 29 minutes while service 46 takes 35 minutes. Service 47, which goes a slightly different way, takes 30 minutes.
I didn't really want to put this in the 'Life's Little Mysteries' thread but perhaps I should have done!
I wonder if there any more examples of this timetabling anomaly.
(Yes, I know it's Nexus and expect nothing less!)
There have been examples of it for years with the stops I have used on a regular basis.
No idea why.
The only thing I could come up with, was the popularity of the service i.e if it was popular, it took longer - if it was less so, then quicker.
No idea if that was the case with each example or not.
On a different note, the timetables on Chester Front St have changed. No idea how long the new versions have been in place, but much easier on the eye, than the traditional cluttered version.