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Making sense of bus timetable

Posted by (United States) on

I swear I am a well educated person, so I am feeling a bit silly asking for clarification on this. Obviously I don’t use much public transportation- that’s my rationale anyway for not being able to figure this out 😊. I’m looking at taking the Coaster bus this summer from Eastbourne to somewhere west, probably not as far as Brighton. I’ve pulled up the Brighton & Hove timetable.

Once we get to Eastbourne train station from London, it seems the closest stop is Cornfield Road. If I take the 12x, the times go out to 0900 then it reads “10” “20”- “50” I’m assuming the last is 9:50. Then the next box down starts with “00” which I believe is 11:00. Is there a break at midday then with the next but leaving at 12:40? Is that correct?

I’m hoping to get an early train from Victoria Station to Eastbourne and would like to know when we should try to arrive by to catch a good bus to start the day there. Thanks for all your help! And patience!

Posted by
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Do you have a link to the schedule?

If there are only minutes, such as "10", "20" etc it can mean that those are the departure times every hour.

Posted by
658 posts

I’m struggling to read the PDF but on timetables where you just see :20, :40 etc, that indicates that the bus goes at those specific times every hour.

(However bus timetables are often purely notional - when in reality you might wait 30 minutes then two come along at once… just depends on whether you’re catching the bus at the start of the route or later).

Posted by
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Oh I think I figured out what i was seeing. It was when I printed the pdf version. I can see the times by scrolling across on my phone, not the desktop. Learning every day!

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