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Week Week 6

Date @January 13, 2024

TIMETABLE AND TRAIN SCHEDULE

TRAIN TIMETABLE
Train Timetable is the data defining all planned train movements.

It includes the departure time in terminal stations, turnback time, insertion time and
planned removal.

It also shows the identity of each train.

HOW MANY TRAINS WILL RUN?

LoopT ime
NO. of Trains Running = Headway  ​

Loop Time — the time to travel the whole route.

💡 Summary of operation

Headway — the time interval between the successive trains, moving in the same
direction on the same track.

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 📢 EXAMPLE:

Loop Time for Hypothetical Line = 56 minutes

For Operations with 7 minutes Headway:

No. of Trains Running = 56mins

7mins = 8 trains
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📢 EXAMPLE:

Loop Time for Hypothetical Line = 56 minutes

For Operations with 5 minutes Headway:

No. of Trains Running = 56mins

5mins = 11.2 = 12 trains
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MAKING SERVICE SCHEDULE

Guide for personnel who will operates the trains.

1. Prepare the Timetable.

2. Determine the total number of loops.

3. Calculate the number of service schedules.

a. Initial Conditions for maximum number of loops per service schedule:

i. Service Schedule with Insertion and Removal (3 Loops)

ii. Service Schedule with Insertion or Removal (4 Loops)

iii. Service Schedule without Insertion and Removal (5 Loops)

b. Calculate the number of service schedule.

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 i. Insertions and Removals
Q. How many insertions in the A.M.?

Q. How many removals in the P.M.?

Therefore:

At A.M

Service Schedule with Insertion 12 x 4 Loops = 48 Loops

Service Schedule w/o Insertion

At P.M
Service Schedule with Removal 12 x 4 Loops = 48 Loops

Service Schedule w/o Removal

Total - 181 Loops - 96 Loops = 85 Loops

85 Loops/ 5 Loops per Service Schedule = 17 Service Schedule

85 Loops - (5 Loops x 17 Service Schedule) = 85-85 = 0

No. Of Service Schedule No. of Loop

Service Schedule with

Insertion or Removals @4 24 96
Loops

Service Schedule without

Insertion or Removal @5 17 85
Loops

Total 41 181

Reporting Time and End of Duty

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 If Service Schedule is Depot Reporting Margi for a Minimum of 50 mins from Insertion
Time must be maintained.

If Service Schedule is Station Reporting Margin for a Minimum of 15 mins from First
Loop must be maintained.

Reporting Time must be divisible by 30 mins.

📢 EXAMPLE:

DEPOT REPORTING INSERTION TIME REPORTING TIME

0335H 0300H
0415H 0300H
0425H 0300H

FIRST LOOP REPORTING TIME

STATION REPORTING 0515H 0500H

0643H 0600H
0745H 0730H

8 Hours must be added to the Reporting Time to get the End of Duty Time.

Reporting Time
0300H - 1100H

0930H - 1730H

1500H - 2300H

Loop Pattern | Maximum Allowable Number of Loops per Service Schedule

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 3 Loops 4 LOOPS 5 LOOPS

1-1-1 2-1-1 2-2-1

1-2 1-2-1 2-1-2
2-1 1-1-2 1-2-2
2-2

3 LOOPS - insertion and removal

4 LOOPS - insertion or removal

5 LOOPS - without insertion and removal

Break Time

There are 2 maximum break-time allowed for every service schedule with a minimum of
40 mins. period for every break-time.

End of Duty

If the Schedule has no removal, a margin for a minimum of 15 mins from the end its last
loop shall be maintained.

If the Schedule has a removal, a margin for a minimum of 15 mins from the train driver’s
signing-off to OCC shall be maintained.

AFTER ASSIGNING service schedules to all train departures, make a summary of

loops for every service schedule.

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