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Old June 5th 06, 12:42 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Dave Arquati Dave Arquati is offline
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Default Olympia ghost train

I was recently trying to get an idea of what the train service was like
from Olympia in the mornings, so I looked up some Journey Planner times
from there to St James's Park. Annoyingly, there seemed to be large gap
in the service - District trains at 0808 and 0842, but nothing in
between except for an 0817 West London line train to Clapham Jcn.

Then I went to the Timetables part of the JP to have a look at all
departures from Olympia (using the top boxes), and it gave me the same gap.

However, I was trying this all using a date in September, so I switched
to June - et voila, there is an 0825 departure. The "Tube timetable" bit
of the Timetables section (further down the page) gives the same result.

Is this 0825 departure - possibly one of the most useful of all the
morning departures - being cancelled?

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Dave Arquati
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