PDF Timetables wanted.

[Crispy!]

Hi, does anyone have any or a collection of old Sydney PDF timetables? including private operators if you have
Send me a message, Cheers.

[Glen]

If you have a look around on the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine you should find some.

Just type in the web address of companies you are looking for.

Some sites get archived better than others.

Or consider the Australian Timetable Association.

[Fleet Lists]

The problem with the Transport for NSW timetables is that you have to know the region code for the route concerned. For example the urls for region 12 route 560:
https://transportnsw.info/documents/tim ... 230130.pdf
https://transportnsw.info/documents/tim ... 230521.pdf
where the current region code is 34 but this will change to 37 when CDC takes over that region as can be seen above.
Archived versions are available for both these timetables as are all routes for this region.
If there more than one version of a timetable is available ie different dates a short search is suggested eg
https://transportnsw.info/documents/timetables/34-560-*
and for the other code
https://transportnsw.info/documents/timetables/37-560-*
This can get very messy as earlier versions do not include the region codes for instance
https://transportnsw.info/documents/timetables/560-* will bring up a 2016 version of the route 560 timetable.

[boxythingy]

Do we know how we can get copies of the latest current standard timetable, not at the current time of downloading from transportnsw.info?

[Glen]

Some operators were still providing their own on their web pages, I don't know if any still do.

Otherwise it's just the TfNSW web site.

For most of the year you can get school term because they are always available two weeks ahead, i.e. if looking during school holidays.

That gets tricky over Christmas until mid January.

[boxythingy]

What about Sydney Trains?

[743]

Some operators were still providing their own on their web pages, I don't know if any still do.

Busabout and Punchbowl still had their own PDFs online - but of course, that's no more.

Maianbar Bundeena Bus Service still have theirs online - from 2008! - https://www.maianbarbundeenabus.com/tim ... w-989.html which links at the bottom to https://www.maianbarbundeenabus.com/Bun ... etable.pdf

[Randomness]

Oh, the Sydney Bus Museum are selling USBs with a bunch of them. I can email them over if you’re still interested. Sorry for having to wait months for this.

[Glen]

What about Sydney Trains?

Yes, here:

https://transportnsw.info/routes/train

AFAIK they are standard and not ever modified for trackwork etc. For example you can see the T3 train timetable even though that line is actually closed for a month.

[Aurora]

Yes, they are the permanent public timetables. These should only get updated with each revision of the permanent timetable.

[Glen]

Funny how you can see Rail Replacement bus timetables like this:

https://transportnsw.info/documents/tim ... 240114.pdf

but you can't see altered train timetables during trackwork?

[lunchbox]

^^^^^^^^^^Could that be because the bus timetablers (anyone we know?) are more customer focussed than the train timetablers?!
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[Glen]

No, I presume it's just different internal processes at TfNSW.

[Stu]

Hi, does anyone have any or a collection of old Sydney PDF timetables? including private operators if you have
Send me a message, Cheers.

The Wayback Machine website still has a number of older timetables available from operators pre-contract region commencement. Busabout, Baxters, Oliverii Metro-Link and Interline for example.

[boxythingy]

Thanks Glen, and also if Web Archive doesn't work, it doesn't hurt to try https://trove.nla.gov.au/help/navigating/web-archive

[Crispy!]

Oh, the Sydney Bus Museum are selling USBs with a bunch of them. I can email them over if you’re still interested. Sorry for having to wait months for this.

Which USB are you referring to ?
I did buy this one
back in November 19th 2023, but there is none on there that I was hoping is there another USB?

[Randomness]

Yep, that’s the one I was referring to. I don’t think there’s another, so good luck on the search. I also have a 2013 Veolia timetable for the 909 and S3 if you want that.

[Duncan]

There is only one SBM USB with maps. Please do copy it as it raises funds for preservation.
We are currently digitising our timetable collection, over 6000 documents so far.