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223
Usually an Alexander Dennis Adl Enviro 200 Mmc.

49% on timeof departures in the week ending 17 October 2026, leaving no more than 2.5 minutes early or 5 minutes late. Half of London's timetabled routes managed 73% or better.

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

Watch a day of route 223’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 endingHarrow View WestWembley Central Station
21 Jun 2025no datano data
28 Jun 202579%12%
5 Jul 202576% thin7% thin
12 Jul 202571% thin12% thin
19 Jul 202574%18%
26 Jul 202568%15%
2 Aug 202565%10%
9 Aug 202562%7%
16 Aug 202578%9%
23 Aug 202578%9%
30 Aug 202569%16%
6 Sept 202578%14%
13 Sept 202570%17%
20 Sept 202575%18%
27 Sept 202575%20%
4 Oct 202584%12%
11 Oct 202576%14%
18 Oct 202581%9%
25 Oct 202586%17%
1 Nov 202585%8%
8 Nov 202584%19%
15 Nov 202583% thin18% thin
22 Nov 202584% thin14% thin
29 Nov 202581%14%
6 Dec 202576%24%
13 Dec 202580%15%
20 Dec 202583%21%
27 Dec 202589% thin26% thin
3 Jan 202690%28%
10 Jan 202679%18%
17 Jan 202677%17%
24 Jan 202681%6%
31 Jan 202680%5%
7 Feb 202678%10%
14 Feb 202681%14%
21 Feb 2026no datano data
28 Feb 2026no datano data
7 Mar 202681%7%
14 Mar 202680%3%
21 Mar 202683%3%
28 Mar 202678%4%
4 Apr 202681%6%
11 Apr 202685%12%
18 Apr 202670%7%
25 Apr 202686% thin11% thin
2 May 202684%9%
9 May 202688%11%
16 May 202679%18%
23 May 202681%18%
30 May 202682%13%
6 Jun 202687%17%
13 Jun 202679%18%
20 Jun 202678%13%
27 Jun 202687%12%
4 Jul 2026no datano data
11 Jul 202684%20%
18 Jul 202686%15%
25 Jul 202688%14%
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 202675%18%
12 Sept 202679%11%
19 Sept 202663%6%
26 Sept 202685%11%
3 Oct 202670%19%
10 Oct 202672%17%
17 Oct 202682%11%

A passenger going by the timetable at Wembley Central Station would find about nine departures in ten leaving more than 2.5 minutes early or 5 minutes late.

Harrow View West
On time
82%
Cut short
3.0%
Wembley Central Station
On time
11%
Cut short
1.7%

87 minutes was the longest gap between buses this week, at Harrow Bus Station towards Harrow View West, on Sunday 11 October from 16:24 to 17:51. This excludes any gaps caused by holes in our own data. Watch it happen →

Journeys cut short

Last week: 2.0% of journeys were turned back before the end of the line in the week ending 17 October 2026. Everyone on board has to get off; for anyone waiting further along the route it's effectively a cancellation.

towards Harrow View West

Last week, 9 of 326 journeys (3%) were turned short.

  • Harrow Bus Station2.0 km short of the end 7
  • Northwick Park Hospital3.8 km short of the end 1
  • Upton Gardens5.2 km short of the end 1

towards Wembley Central Station

Last week, 4 of 327 journeys (1%) were turned short.

  • Wembley Park Station2.4 km short of the end 3
  • Harrow Bus Station11.8 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 202670% on timeno figure
2026/27 Q11 Apr – 26 Jun 202672% 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 17 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
  • Harrow View West: 224 departures seen
  • Wembley Central Station: 199 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.