clock-face timetable

clock-face timetable (plural clock-face timetables)

1. (transport) A service pattern where services depart at regular intervals, and thus at the same number of minutes past each hour.

   The new clock-face timetable means services to Cardiff now depart at 10 and 40 minutes past the hour.

   • 1956, Bus & Coach‎, Liffe & Sons., page 174:

     He agreed to the system of working to a clock-face timetable, although there was difficulty in fitting it in with the arrival or departure of trains.

   • 2005, Stuart Cole, “Market Demand”, in Applied Transport Economics: Policy, Management and Decision Making‎, 3rd edition, Part 1: Transport Markey Dynamics, Kogan Page, →ISBN, Case Study 1: Urban Bus Operations, page 16:

     5. Reliability — quality of service/regular clock-face timetabe/staff training as elements of service elasticity.

   • 2008 or 2009, South East Wales Transport Alliance, “Welsh Affairs Committee: Evidence”, in House of Commons: Welsh Affairs Committee, editor, Cross-border Provision of Public Services for Wales: Transport‎, Tenth Report of Session 2008-09, The Stationery Office, published 2009, →ISBN, Memorandum submitted by the South East Wales Transport Alliance, page Ev 213:

     When leaving Wales, there is virtually, a clock-face timetable along the South Wales Main Line, with trains for London running every hour from Swansea and every half-hour from Cardiff and Newport […]