How complete are timetables?

The ground hog day timetables) 2009,2015 and 2019)are all taken directly from network rail data feeds and therefore accurately reflect whatever than on that given day. They should therefore be 99% accurate allowing for the odd train consist being off.

User made timetables will vary.

As a Londoner who used to take the Hampton Court - Waterloo train very often, I’ve noticed that it’s missing from most timetables and too rare in those where it’s actually available. Trains to Guildford seem to be running pretty accurately though. Overall, Clapham Junction especially seems to be running at a much lower frequency than real life (I’m quite familiar with that station).

Note that my experience at the moment is limited to this scenario, I wonder how realistic schedules in other ones are.

Yes, that sounds about right, I don’t get it in my simulation though, at least not at that frequency. Does it have something like a spawning chance? I’ve played this very timetable for like 6 hours during the day and only saw it once.

Brytenwalda in post 121721 said:

Yes, that sounds about right, I don’t get it in my simulation though, at least not at that frequency. Does it have something like a spawning chance? I’ve played this very timetable for like 6 hours during the day and only saw it once.

Did you adjust the start time from the pre-set 04:30 when you started the simulation? That timetable has a fairly comprehensive set of rules which prevent a service's next working appearing too soon after the outgoing service leaves the area. If you started the TT after the outbound service was supposed to leave the area, the inbound one will never appear.

Should I always start the simulation at the specified time?