Evening Olympias
Posted: 30 Sep 2022, 00:10
I have received the following reply from TfL to my FoI request regarding evening Olympia services:
Dear Richard Standing
TfL Ref: FOI-1407-2223
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 10 September 2022, asking for information about District Line service to Kensington Olympia.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm that we hold the information you require. Specifically you asked:
Please can you therefore provide, for a period of the last 12 months (or a shorter period if that is all you have available):
* A list for each working day in this period, showing which evening services to Olympia ran (or, if it is easier, which were cancelled) on each day.
Due to the impacts of COVID-19 looking at service levels going back a year is not necessarily a good reflection of what the service levels are now. Instead we have provided data from 01/08/2022 to 15/09/2022. Please see attached.
This is for all trains travelling from Earls Court to Olympia station between the hours of 19:00-21:59 only.
* If the evening Olympia services truly "hardly ever run", please can you advise why they still appear on the Journey Planner?
The trains in question changed with our new timetable, introduced on 11 September 2022.
The previous Working Timetables (WTT152):
Train 124 – Earls Court – 1943
Train 125 – Earls Court – 2025
The new Working Timetable (WTT153):
Train 015 – Earls Court – 2004
Trian 106 – Earls Court – 2017
We do not provide an advertised service to Olympia during the week, and generally advise customers to travel using the London Overground service to West Brompton and then Olympia which is a much more regular service. However, we do operate several trains that either come into service first thing in the morning and the odd one later in the evening. These are essentially trains that come into service or stable at Lillie Bridge Depot.
Any disruption on the line may result in changes to these trains; they may stable early, for example. The controllers will make these decisions based on the wider service on the line and will prioritise the other branches, such as Wimbledon, Richmond, or Ealing on the basis that there is an easy alternative for Olympia.
If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.
Yours sincerely
Eva Hextall
General Counsel
Transport for London
FOI Case Management Team
I have uploaded the spreadsheet to my Google account at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... ue&sd=true
There seems to be a wide variety of service levels from no Olympia services at all, to ten or more in the space of an hour and a half! Suffice it to say, in my view not reliable enough to build a FNC attempt around.
Dear Richard Standing
TfL Ref: FOI-1407-2223
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 10 September 2022, asking for information about District Line service to Kensington Olympia.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm that we hold the information you require. Specifically you asked:
Please can you therefore provide, for a period of the last 12 months (or a shorter period if that is all you have available):
* A list for each working day in this period, showing which evening services to Olympia ran (or, if it is easier, which were cancelled) on each day.
Due to the impacts of COVID-19 looking at service levels going back a year is not necessarily a good reflection of what the service levels are now. Instead we have provided data from 01/08/2022 to 15/09/2022. Please see attached.
This is for all trains travelling from Earls Court to Olympia station between the hours of 19:00-21:59 only.
* If the evening Olympia services truly "hardly ever run", please can you advise why they still appear on the Journey Planner?
The trains in question changed with our new timetable, introduced on 11 September 2022.
The previous Working Timetables (WTT152):
Train 124 – Earls Court – 1943
Train 125 – Earls Court – 2025
The new Working Timetable (WTT153):
Train 015 – Earls Court – 2004
Trian 106 – Earls Court – 2017
We do not provide an advertised service to Olympia during the week, and generally advise customers to travel using the London Overground service to West Brompton and then Olympia which is a much more regular service. However, we do operate several trains that either come into service first thing in the morning and the odd one later in the evening. These are essentially trains that come into service or stable at Lillie Bridge Depot.
Any disruption on the line may result in changes to these trains; they may stable early, for example. The controllers will make these decisions based on the wider service on the line and will prioritise the other branches, such as Wimbledon, Richmond, or Ealing on the basis that there is an easy alternative for Olympia.
If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.
Yours sincerely
Eva Hextall
General Counsel
Transport for London
FOI Case Management Team
I have uploaded the spreadsheet to my Google account at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... ue&sd=true
There seems to be a wide variety of service levels from no Olympia services at all, to ten or more in the space of an hour and a half! Suffice it to say, in my view not reliable enough to build a FNC attempt around.