TFL Website Accuracy

[bobthemonkey]

Hello frequenters of the tube.

I'm planning a journey in London which needs quite specific timings. How accurate is the TFL website for planning travel times on the tube, and is there anything better to get times.

Ta munchies

[Saskia7]

If you're in central London, the tubes run pretty much every 2 mins, are you coming from outside Town?

[minimax]

it's virtually pointless to plan a journey along times of tubes if you're travelling centrally as they are so frequent

I would just use the journey time planner and subtract 15 minutes safety time from your departure time, just in case

[V8mate]

The transfer times on their site are very generous in my experience

[Pigeon]

They are indeed, it's a bugger trying to use the National Rail website to work out a cross-London journey because it thinks it will take half an hour longer to travel between termini than it actually does and so gives you crap changes.

[rustyspit]

bobthemonkey said:

Hello frequenters of the tube.

I'm planning a journey in London which needs quite specific timings. How accurate is the TFL website for planning travel times on the tube, and is there anything better to get times.

Ta munchies

Generally I find them quite generous with their total journey times, but as with all London transport when it does go wrong it can go spectacularly wrong...

[bobthemonkey]

Saskia7 said:

If you're in central London, the tubes run pretty much every 2 mins, are you coming from outside Town?

Yep, outside of town.

Thanks for the advice about the changeover times. Gives a little breathing space.