A and C Timetables

Got one for the Central Line for 1962, and is also got 'reference codes'...

Lemme dig it out!

Central Line Timetable, P252, 3rd September 1962 Until Further Notice

Unusual leap in the numbering - though the Central have always done things their own way! I've not got that one but do have ones close to it 27 in Oct '64 and 24A in May '63. I think the A here comes from Mon-Fri being C, Sat being 24B and Sun 24A - I've not tried decipering suffixes yet - <fx wanders off into timetable library > No, the A,B,C theory is pants because the Northern Emergency TTs from 1978 are Mon-Fri 32A, Sat 31A, Sun 29A. I've got a Northern (Highbury Branch) thats 29C - All week 1971 and a Northern (Northern City Section) thats 15A All week March '62 - suspect the numbers carried on the series here.

Suffixes are way too complicated. Sorry for the geek overload ;D

I'm contemplating putting/selling some of my duplicates/triplicates on eBay. ;D Though it won't be for a while yet.

I wasn't ;D, as any fule kno numbers starting P<whatever> generally indicates Picc trains that appear in District and Met TTs.

All I'm interested in finding out is why SSL lines pubished their main WTTs beginning C(number) and toob Lines beginning A(number) in 1972.

Whilst I am a timetabling geek (as envinced/evidenced in previous threads - still puzzling about when Plaistow reversers started) and to the despair of angelislington [2] , I've not got a full and definitive collection - that I don't want, it would spoil the 'thrill of the chase': it ill behoves you to take the rise (which is what I suspect you might be doing - no offence taken if you are).

Suffices [1] are something that I became briefly interested in last night - though that subject varies from line to line - the lack of a definitive collection precludes me from making any conclusion yet

Has this alleviated (or ameliorated) your state of confusion?

[1] as in letters after numbers. I'm still processing possibilities there.

[2] who deserves some order of merit for listening to interminably dull conversations along the lines of 'well, the Tooting Bdwy reversers at Euston for turnback swap to the SB every third train.'

Lovely! Thank-you, that was just the answer I was searching for.



Making an educated guess and extrapolating out of the contents of the now sorted TT library I'd guess that 21A would have come in during September/October 1939.



Sometimes, just sometimes I'd give up working with steam engines, ancient old shelf relays and electric key token instruments to go and work in the Timetable Office.