On a standard train schedule one reads down the left column and up the right column with the city names in between. What does it mean when there is a number in bold font next to the city name. Is that a reference to a connecting train or a reference to another schedule, or ???
You would have to read the key to the schedule. It could be many things, it could be after noon and before 23:59 (PM) or it could be a scheduled meet or a positive connection or a stop only on certain days of the week. What does the schedule key say it is? Different timetables (public or employee) and different railroads have different meanings.
Dave H.
Nope, am & pm are designated on the times in the read up & read down columns.
Hmmmm that is an idea that hadn’t crossed my mind, but one of the first cities on the schedule is one of the ones with numbers after it. I wouldn’t think one would start a schedule with meets.
That was my thought.
No, the whole schedule is marked “daily”, and the numbers don’t match days of the week. Lets see there is an 7,33,67 & 31.
If I had that I would not have had to ask the question.
If you’re talking about an employee timetable, the stn name in bold indicates a scheduled meeting point and the adjacent # is the train to be met
Ok I think I understand you question now. The bold numbers aren’t in the schedules, they are in the stations column.
Is this an employee timetable or a public timetable? What railroad?
They could be the amenities (public) or facilities (employee) available at the station, they could be the station audit number (employee), they could be the distance between stations (employee).
Dave H.
Similar printing on the master public timetable for Japanese passenger transportation is a page number reference to the timetable of connecting route (or routes.) That master timetable is a large book, several hundred pages, and covers everything from Shinkansen to rural bus lines.
In the US, I have seen the same, except that the number referred to a separate (leaflet style) public timetable.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - TTTO)
Do you have a scanner? If not, use a digital camera on the macro setting to post a photo of the schedule, then we can see exactly what you’re talking about.