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167
Usually an Alexander Dennis Adl Enviro 200 Mmc.

73% on timeof departures in the week ending 31 October 2026, leaving no more than 2.5 minutes early or 5 minutes late. Half of London's timetabled routes managed 71% or better.

The last week, day by day
Share of departures leaving on time.

Watch a day of route 167’s buses: every bus, replayed on the map. Or click a day on the chart.

The weekly figures

The share of departures that left on time.

Week endingHainault StreetLoughton Station
21 Jun 2025no datano data
28 Jun 202563%78%
5 Jul 202559% thin84% thin
12 Jul 202577% thin74% thin
19 Jul 202548%68%
26 Jul 202583%82%
2 Aug 202556%82%
9 Aug 202590%95%
16 Aug 202579%93%
23 Aug 202571%85%
30 Aug 202579%71%
6 Sept 202564%67%
13 Sept 202551%61%
20 Sept 202561%70%
27 Sept 202558%73%
4 Oct 202551%74%
11 Oct 202561%72%
18 Oct 202562%84%
25 Oct 202559%78%
1 Nov 202571%70%
8 Nov 202572%86%
15 Nov 202556% thin64% thin
22 Nov 202546% thin76% thin
29 Nov 202557%47%
6 Dec 202542%45%
13 Dec 202561%no data
20 Dec 202556%no data
27 Dec 202581% thin77% thin
3 Jan 202688%no data
10 Jan 202664%80%
17 Jan 202661%65%
24 Jan 202663%68%
31 Jan 202666%75%
7 Feb 202677%87%
14 Feb 202642%79%
21 Feb 2026no datano data
28 Feb 2026no datano data
7 Mar 202632%79%
14 Mar 202672%92%
21 Mar 202638%44%
28 Mar 202663%82%
4 Apr 202690%93%
11 Apr 202669%83%
18 Apr 202669%89%
25 Apr 202638% thin80% thin
2 May 202650%78%
9 May 202652%85%
16 May 202670%88%
23 May 202644%75%
30 May 202665%62%
6 Jun 202661%73%
13 Jun 202648%91%
20 Jun 202669%71%
27 Jun 202654%85%
4 Jul 2026no datano data
11 Jul 202642%81%
18 Jul 202681%93%
25 Jul 202675%88%
1 Aug 2026no datano data
8 Aug 2026no datano data
15 Aug 2026no datano data
22 Aug 2026no datano data
29 Aug 2026no datano data
5 Sept 202673%94%
12 Sept 202632%69%
19 Sept 202649%78%
26 Sept 202657%78%
3 Oct 202678%84%
10 Oct 202651%77%
17 Oct 202669%85%
24 Oct 202670%96%
31 Oct 202659%89%

A passenger going by the timetable at Hainault Street would find about four departures in ten leaving more than 2.5 minutes early or 5 minutes late.

Hainault Street
On time
59%
Cut short
5.4%
Loughton Station
On time
89%
Cut short
7.2%

67 minutes was the longest gap between buses this week, at Hainault Grove towards Loughton Station, on Saturday 31 October from 07:05 to 08:12. This excludes any gaps caused by holes in our own data. Watch it happen →

Journeys cut short

Last week: 3.0% of journeys were turned back before the end of the line in the week ending 31 October 2026. Everyone on board has to get off; for anyone waiting further along the route it's effectively a cancellation.

Last four weeks: 87 journeys on route 167 were turned back before the end of the line over four weeks of watching, 10 October to 31 October 2026 — about 3.1 a day.

00.10.20.30.4journeys cut short a day, by hour00:00–01:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day00:0001:00–02:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day02:00–03:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day03:00–04:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day04:00–05:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day05:00–06:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day06:00–07:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day06:0007:00–08:00: 0.1 cut short on an average day08:00–09:00: 0.3 cut short on an average day09:00–10:00: 0.3 cut short on an average day10:00–11:00: 0.2 cut short on an average day11:00–12:00: 0.2 cut short on an average day12:00–13:00: 0.1 cut short on an average day12:0013:00–14:00: 0.3 cut short on an average day14:00–15:00: 0.1 cut short on an average day15:00–16:00: 0.3 cut short on an average day16:00–17:00: 0.2 cut short on an average day17:00–18:00: 0.3 cut short on an average day18:00–19:00: 0.3 cut short on an average day18:0019:00–20:00: 0.1 cut short on an average day20:00–21:00: 0.1 cut short on an average day21:00–22:00: 0.1 cut short on an average day22:00–23:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day23:00–00:00: 0.0 cut short on an average daybusiest hour 08:00 — 0.3 a day

Where those journeys fall across the day. Each bar is the number cut short in that hour on an average day, so the bars together come to the daily figure above; hover a bar for its hour. Hours the route was not watched enough to say are shaded rather than drawn as nought.

towards Hainault Street

Last week, 5 of 181 journeys (3%) were turned short.

  • Ilford / Chapel Road0.7 km short of the end 3
  • Valentines Park1.8 km short of the end 1
  • Gants Hill Station3.1 km short of the end 1

towards Loughton Station

Last week, 8 of 257 journeys (3%) were turned short.

  • Buckhurst Hill Station2.6 km short of the end 4
  • Highland Avenue1.0 km short of the end 2
  • Stonards Hill0.7 km short of the end 1
  • Chester Road4.5 km short of the end 1

Each place is the last stop the bus was timed at before it turned round, with the typical distance it fell short of the end of the line. The five busiest are named; the rest are counted together.

Compared with TfL's own figures

QuarterTfLOurs
2025/26 Q313 Sept – 2 Jan 202679% on timeno figure
2026/27 Q11 Apr – 26 Jun 202682% on timeno figure

TfL's figures come from its own tracking equipment and its own timetable; mine are computed from the buses' public position feed. They are the same calculation on independent data, so they should broadly agree and move together rather than match exactly.

About this data
Data collected, week ending 31 October 2026
100% of the week. This is the share of the week for which we hold bus location data at all, across the whole of London rather than for this route. A week under 60% is not published; under 90% it is marked as thin.
Departures observed
  • Hainault Street: 201 departures seen
  • Loughton Station: 188 departures seen
A guide to how much evidence sits behind this week's figures, not a measure of the service.
How it is measured
Every day, 05:00–23:59. On time means leaving no more than 2.5 minutes early or 5 minutes late. A day with less than four hours of data collected shows no daily figure. How these figures are made.
Gaps in the record for this period (39)

Most recent first. Hover a week on the chart and it will name the gap behind it. Most are a few missing hours on an otherwise ordinary day.

  • 17 Sept 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59: our collector was down (machine off or power cut)
  • 28 Aug 2026 partial day, no data 20:00-23:59: our collector was down (machine off or power cut)
  • 29 Jul – 26 Aug 2026 no collection: the volunteer BODS archive was down and our own collector had not yet started
  • 28 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 11:00-23:59: no collection: the volunteer BODS archive was down and our own collector had not yet started
  • 7 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 15:00-15:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 4 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-21:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 2 Jul – 3 Jul 2026 gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 8 Jun 2026 partial day, no data 07:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 7 Jun 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59, 18:00-19:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 6 Jun 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59, 16:00-16:59, 18:00-18:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 27 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 21 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 20 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 15:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 16 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-15:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 28 Feb 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-18:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 16 Feb – 27 Feb 2026 gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 15 Feb 2026 partial day, no data 16:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 30 Jan 2026 partial day, no data 20:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 25 Dec 2025 no bus service on Christmas Day
  • 23 Dec 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Dec 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 24 Nov 2025 partial day, no data 17:00-17:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 17 Nov 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 15 Nov – 16 Nov 2025 no London vehicles in the national feed — TfL's export to BODS was down (the volunteer archive itself was collecting)
  • 14 Nov 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59, 13:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 31 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 17 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 10 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 3 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 19 Sept 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Sept 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 1 Aug 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 18 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 8 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 6 Jul – 7 Jul 2025 gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 18:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 4 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-14:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 25 Jun 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)

For latest timetable and route information, see TfL's official page.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; bus data via the DfT Bus Open Data Service and Transport for London. Figures are computed from observed bus positions, every day, 05:00–23:59. How these figures are made. Bus positions from the Department for Transport’s Bus Open Data Service (BODS); the Department for Transport cannot warrant the accuracy or quality of the data published there. Positions before September 2026 come from the Bus Open Data archive generously built and kept by Open Innovations, with thanks. Route lines and stops: Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016. Geomni UK Map data © and database rights [2019]. These pages and the bus replay are built independently from open data: Transport for London, the Department for Transport and the bus operators had no part in making them, and none of them endorses them. Not for planning a journey.