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Even More Olympia Whingeing

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Firstly, how do you now check whether there are exhibition trains or not? I've done an FOI but there's no response, and I've even tweeted the District Line Twitter account to no avail.

Whoever's running TFL Twitter clearly has no idea what they're doing. I tweeted the Northern Line to ask about whether there would be (say) more Mill Hill East trains on 1-5 Aug (as there's no crossover at Camden Town) and got met with silence.

The GBBF has not mentioned the Olympia service on their travel page this year. The Journey Planner mentions a special bus service (!), but that has been discredited as a method anyway (Marshall, 2012).

I believe Andi & Steve's record was done on a non-exhibition day (although I'm not sure) and I can't make an Olympia train fit into my route. A Heathrow start severely disadvantages the North West corner finish when the route is flipped.

Come on TFL, tell us when the exhibition trains are. Because, in the words of Mr G Marshall, "there's no F in "train"".
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I recently called TfL about this, but to no avail. I was told to use Journey Planner, and that the customer service people were not given such a list of Olympia days.
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The short answer is there aren't any, and it is likely there won't be any in the future.
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So adapt your plans for Olympia it's not hard any good route planner will have plan a,b,c,d etc

For example film route I have 12 plans in place for eventualities the others I work on route if had too.
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Indeed, you may find that re-designing the route around a morning (or evening) Olympia can work out quicker than originally planned.

Re-working 'Labyrinth' for an evening Olympia gave me a theory time of 16:14 (at that time equalling the GWR), as opposed to Labyrinth's actual time of 16:44, though of course I don't know what the theory time for Labyrinth was.
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As I say reversing the route severely screws up Amersham/Chesham...
RJSRdg wrote:Indeed, you may find that re-designing the route around a morning (or evening) Olympia can work out quicker than originally planned.

Re-working 'Labyrinth' for an evening Olympia gave me a theory time of 16:14 (at that time equalling the GWR), as opposed to Labyrinth's actual time of 16:44, though of course I don't know what the theory time for Labyrinth was.
I've got a reworked Labyrinth for an evening Olympia that's 1 minute quicker than yours...
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greatkingrat wrote:The short answer is there aren't any, and it is likely there won't be any in the future.
A longer answer is that the "exhibition" service is mostly bustituted, with details appearing in the (internal) Traffic Circular for the relevant week. Presumably there's some sort of local publicity as well.
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barrykas wrote:
greatkingrat wrote:The short answer is there aren't any, and it is likely there won't be any in the future.
A longer answer is that the "exhibition" service is mostly bustituted, with details appearing in the (internal) Traffic Circular for the relevant week. Presumably there's some sort of local publicity as well.
Sometimes when I am around Olympia I see the signs for the District Line Olympia Bus Replacement.

I think that there is a service on Friday though, but I'm not sure. Journey Planner says there'll be a bus.
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While at work I've seen 1 go from either Upminster or barking through to Olympia, I know there's a service on weekends, not sure if it's in the internal stuff, I haven't seen it in there before
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There will be an Olympia service at some point during the 2017 Ideal Home Exhibition. I don't know exactly which days but it has something to do with a lack of Overground trains due to engineering works. That should give you enough hints, alas that may mean it's a weekend.
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At weekends there is an Olympia service anyway?
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