School holiday schedules

[snoggle]

How many companies operating TfL contract services adopt school holiday schedules to reflect the reduced "school run" / work congestion? I know London United do when all schools in their area are on holiday. Any other companies?

Note - I am not talking about the 6xx school services or SDO extra journeys on normal routes. I'm talking about routes having completely different schedules to reflect the differing operating conditions.

[Paul]

At Bromley we have school holiday schedules running on all routes apart from the 246

[I-Azusio-I]

Route 294 seems to have a school holiday timetable and route K3 is still running to Trinity School.

[londonbusboy]

I know for certain the 61s and 314s operate differently but I know the 227 doesn't change at all not too sure on the others

[M1104]

I believe the 152, 157 and 200 adopted such a schedule in the past...and on assumption they are doing so again now.

[greeny253]

174, 248 (5 years later!) and the 287 at Rainham have school holiday duties

[eggmiester]

I know the 89, 229, 401 at BX are running a holiday schedule as we revert to our previous (roadworks) schedules on sat 31st August then a week later we change again to the old schedules we had prior to the Bexleyheath Roadworks.

[fl70500]

Not at BE we use headway and what stand room there is so schedule stay the same time wise.

[Steve80]

Aug 15, 2013 9:38:26 GMT M1104 said:

I believe the 152, 157 and 200 adopted such a schedule in the past...and on assumption they are doing so again now.

The 157 and 455 have a school timetable. Both have two duties (one in the morning and one in the evening) which are different than usual. I don't know too much about the 455 but on the 157 a duty that normally starts at 1410, starts at 1529 on school holidays

[sw11simon]

Some routes are contracted to have a school holiday schedule in the summer, normally where school aimed journeys are built into the schedule. At Merton the 200 would remove the double deck working, and the 280 would drop the school journey from St Helier to Tooting in the afternoon. Some routes will get one because otherwise running time in the morning peak is far too generous. However, this means giving money back to TfL (running with less resources) and takes up a lot of time for schedules dept. Therefore their use is more limited than it could be due to the nature of the tendering regime - to introduce on most high frequency routes (low freq are timetabled so even more complicated and rarely done) would require in essence 1. Giving money back to TfL and 2. Hiring more staff in a schedules dept.

[l1group]

Definitely know E3 *grr* has a special school holiday schedule working at least, 111 I know has a school holiday timetable. E3 has MANY schools on its route including *annoyingly* my one...