please empty your brain below

About the journey planner thing. It shows really unhelpful information sometimes. If I were to take (for example) the 47 from Bellingham to say Deptford Bridge, if I type that up in the journey planner,it would report issues in London Bridge (which I would go nowhere near) and that the 47 only terminates at Liverpool Street from 6000-0000. Absolutely unhelpful
What was the station they don't have the crowding info for?
Well fancy missing 'that one' out - I look forward to you finding out why DG.
Of course, if you actually want to find out if there are any lifts broken at a TfL station, you should check updownlondon.com

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Is the relationship between busy station and full train that clear cut in all cases?

Just because the station itself might be at its busiest time, doesn't necessarily mean the trains passing through will be at their fullest.
So it 'our' fault the system gets crowded at certain times of the day/week is it? Heaven forbid if companies/employers did their part and there more 'flexi-time' working or suchlike. The whole Monday-Friday ish 8/9ish-5/6ish working patterns combined with a tidal flow inwards in the mornings and another outwards in the evening is in need of urgent change...a change I don't see happening anytime soon. (PVH: 7)
it's probably the busiest time for trains too at roding valley. there are four trains to central london in that half hour.
@Grumpy Anon.
A bit sensitive aren't we..? Why not consider that you've now got the official figures and advice to show some flexi-time might actually be of benefit and push companies towards change?
The worst bit for me is the phrase "outside of" grrrr.
I wonder if the reason "that one" is omitted from the database is because it has two distinct entrances, each of which is located immediately above one of the two tube lines it serves, but with quite a distance between them? i.e. it almost but not quite functions as two stations in one

Granted I can think of one, more centrally located, similar station (on the same two lines, in fact) that has an approximately similar situation
@Tube Geek
It's easy enough to find - click on DG's "individual Tube lines" link, choose a line, scroll down to find whether any station has a missing warning sign, and repeat for other lines until you find it. (As the station is an interchange, you won't have to try all eleven, and indeed as Dominic points out that the station is served by (exactly) two lines one line is ruled out anyway.

Arsenal is no longer the station nearest the stadium of the eponymous football club, but the third nearest. The second nearest is exit only on match days. The nearest of all is closed on match days (and therefore not busy at all) but TfL would have you believe it doesn't exist anyway.
and all so they can squeeze more sardines into the tins
Similarly to A's comment above, I'd rather want to know the best time to get on a train. My local District line station is a quiet one, but the trains are packed by the time they get here in the morning.
I disagree with DG's chirpy conclusion. It's good to end on a positive note, but I would submit that essentially hiding all broken-escalator and broken-lift information from the public (however inadvertently) is a much bigger bad effect than the slight benefit of pointlessly telling people crowdedest times - occasional users will travel when they need to, and regular station users will know from their own experience. For once, I'm on the grumpy side.
The trick missed is which is more relevant. For a journey from Bank in morning peak eastwards station might be busy but seats available on train. Possibly, but less likely, to get a seat for a comfortable journeywestbound during the evening. Put up arriving through a busy station. or seated for the journey. You decide!










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