Timetable Changes @ 13/5/2012, Updated 20/4/12

[Cat]

Updated!

Unfortunately the news is not good this time round (Unless I'm missing some new timetables - the system won't allow searches to the effective date yet...)

Northern
-Summer-only trips deleted from Route 456
-Additional timing point on Route 458
-Time changes on routes 456 and 458
-Time changes on routes 400 and 408
-Additional To Glendalough 408 trip on Saturdays

Eastern
-Final withdrawal of Route 291 (after being progressively run down along with it's old cousin in the 295 throughout 2009).
-Route 291 moved to Eastern Timetable 109
-Minor time changes on routes 36, 40, 291, 295, 296, 299

Timetables
N68
N77
E94
E109

[Mr OC Benz]

There should be some other service improvements/changes coming up next month also, so keep an eye on any updates. Those 456's ever since the start never seemed viable.

[BusSpotter97]

Another note, with the 400 being fully accessible from this date it seems that Karrinyup ( and Swan NoR) will be fully accessible. Only the 44x and 38x need to be amended to show this change.

[I love the old buses]

Then what will end up happening to the Karrinyup 305G's and other highfloors at sWAn (NoR)

[BusSpotter97]

305G's are going to Canningvale and the others to other Swan Depots or being withdrawn I believe.

[busdriver12]

When working through my timetable spreadsheet I also noticed that the 291 had dropped off the Eastern 94 timetable.

-Final withdrawal of Route 291 (after being progressively run down along with it's old cousin in the 295 throughout 2009).

I too had thought it had been silently removed until I saw:

-Route 291 moved to Eastern Timetable 109

The same thing happened with the 36 service when it was silently moved from Eastern 100 to Eastern 109 on 18/12/11. Why is it so hard to put this in the service changes info?

[busdriver12]

Also noticed is that the composite timetable Eastern 87 has dropped off the web site. Seeing it duplicates most of the runs on Eastern 109. Maybe it's been silently removed?

[Cat]

Doesn't really surprise me for it to be dropped. It was living on borrowed time after last year's reorganisation in my opinion, plus wasn't updated for the changes.

It now wouldn't surprise me to see the Eastern 86 renumbered further up, to give a bit more breathing space in the northern region. Just two more timetables to use at the moment... (Pure speculation only.)

[Mr OC Benz]

They actually had to replace the newish Northern timetable shelves because they were too small to fit every northern timetable!

[busdriver12]

Doesn't really surprise me for it to be dropped. It was living on borrowed time after last year's reorganisation in my opinion, plus wasn't updated for the changes.

It now wouldn't surprise me to see the Eastern 86 renumbered further up, to give a bit more breathing space in the northern region. Just two more timetables to use at the moment... (Pure speculation only.)

You could be onto something there seeing Eastern 87 88 95 98 107 and 110 are currently not in use.

I wonder if South Eastern 10 will suffer the same fate as it too is a composite timetable

[Mr OC Benz]

Remember the Northern 57 timetable is a composite timetable for Wanneroo Rd. They're really only needed for corridors with high volume of services.

[busdriver12]

I spent a fair bit of time yesterday doing some research and noted the same. There are four composite timetables in circulation at present (that I can see). They are:

South Eastern 6 (Murdoch to Canning Vale/Livingston Shopping Centre)
South Eastern 10 (Perth to Cannington/Carousel Shopping Centre)
Western 45 (Perth to UWA/QEII medical centre)
Northern 57 (Perth to Wanneroo Rd/Amelia St)

Northern 57 was made into a composite timetable upon the creation of Routes 386-389 on 6/11/11. Considering how composite timetables have been slowly dropping off, this may represent a trend in this direction. I recall at one stage Routes 328 and 330 being spread over four timetables!