Real Time information

[Gareth]

Every bus stop I've used since Boxing Day in various parts of the city have had incorrect real time information with as many as 5 'Due' buses disappearing. The bus stop information is different to the NXWM app information and the arrival of buses doesn't match either.
Are the IT people on holiday or maybe they aren't even aware?

[Stuharris 6360]

or were the stops expecting it to be Mon - Fri timetables when actually until today, it has been Saturday service.

[Matt.N0056]

Many RTI boards seem to be 5 minutes fast, don't know whether this causes incorrect times for the buses being tracked

[wembley86]

Could it be that the displays are weekday times and the buses are running a saturday service

[Trident 4194]

I was waiting for a 241 in Cradley Heath yesterday, the real time info said 3 min, then 1 min, then disappeared with the next bus being a 141 in 10 mins. Then 3 or 4 mins later the 241 appeared! I've noticed the same kind of thing is happening at other bus stops with real time info.

The NWM app has also been having problems for a quite a while now. Whenever a bus gets within 4-5 mins of your bus stop it disappears off the departure list!

I think there all out, the one in harbourne was incorrect aswell

[JoNi]

The clock on stop displays appears to be six minutes fast.
As for the NX App buses are "disappearing" when they are six minutes away. Using the stops and times button work your way back up the route from where you are until the "next" bus disappears to find out where it is! Appreciate there are limitations in relation to buses entering service etc!

[Stu]

This morning, I just missed a 37 in Acocks Green, and the departure board said a 31 was due in 3 mins; this was about 8:16am, so I went to go and wait for that instead of waiting six minutes for the next 37. (I didn't notice the current time on the display though)

Needless to say the 31 didn't come until 8:27, which was about correct as the printed timetable said it came at 0829 on Saturday. (The 37 did come and go in the meantime, but I didn't fancy running over the icy frosted pavement!).

Longest three minutes of my life!  :D

[trident4370]

I've had MANY issues with both the app and bus stop clocks since just before Christmas, it's got to the point now where I'm just taking no notice of either!

[Kevin]

Similar with the bus stop at Tower Hill, I've noticed 51s and X51s all appearing as "due" then disappearing then turning up 2 or 3 mins later

[Gareth]

A Saturday service shouldn't affect the bus stops or the app at all. They are real time departures, not timetabled ones.

[Liverpool Street]

Ahhh... What did we do before RTI... I'll never know...

[Stu]

Ahhh... What did we do before RTI... I'll never know...

What did we do before every stop had a printed timetable?  ;) Ah, the joys of turning up at a bus stop and having no idea what time it would, or was indeed supposed to, turn up! :D

[Liverpool Street]

Ahhh... What did we do before RTI... I'll never know...

What did we do before every stop had a printed timetable?  ;) Ah, the joys of turning up at a bus stop and having no idea what time it would, or was indeed supposed to, turn up! :D

The glory days of literally 'the drivers all run to their own timetable' - 'oh you're early driver' no I'm not my love I'm on time... (Not really, the standard procedure on the BR was 6minutes up to allow for Selly Oak.. Worked like a dream until a certain portly inspector got his own way back in the day! And don't worry about Bundy clocks ;-) )

[Westy]

You were lucky if your stop got a timetable board, which was mainly the timetable leaflet with the timing point underlined in red.

Oh for the days of the Wmpte North Division timetable book @ 50p!

Anyone remember the pokey little hole that Wmpte used as a Travel Centre in Walsall, now a sweet shop?

[JoNi]

Main screens in Pool Meadow, Coventry on Boxing Day only showed one journey!
The 14:55 Monday to Friday school holidays to Allesley Park.

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