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77% 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 228’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 endingCentral Middlesex HospitalChippenham Road / Shirland Road
21 Jun 2025no datano data
28 Jun 202582%77%
5 Jul 202582% thin80% thin
12 Jul 202585% thin65% thin
19 Jul 202589%77%
26 Jul 202564%81%
2 Aug 202587%83%
9 Aug 202592%82%
16 Aug 202591%79%
23 Aug 202590%81%
30 Aug 202588%no data
6 Sept 202581%no data
13 Sept 202574%71%
20 Sept 202560%75%
27 Sept 202590%85%
4 Oct 202587%68%
11 Oct 202593%80%
18 Oct 202586%74%
25 Oct 202587%70%
1 Nov 202586%78%
8 Nov 202580%63%
15 Nov 202579% thin75% thin
22 Nov 202581% thin80% thin
29 Nov 202579%74%
6 Dec 202566%64%
13 Dec 202584%83%
20 Dec 202589%89%
27 Dec 202591% thin83% thin
3 Jan 202694%91%
10 Jan 202685%78%
17 Jan 202666%78%
24 Jan 202680%80%
31 Jan 202686%87%
7 Feb 202687%78%
14 Feb 202692%86%
21 Feb 2026no datano data
28 Feb 2026no datano data
7 Mar 202693%86%
14 Mar 202693%81%
21 Mar 202689%83%
28 Mar 202641%57%
4 Apr 202673%72%
11 Apr 202688%85%
18 Apr 202689%83%
25 Apr 202682% thin87% thin
2 May 202683%92%
9 May 202689%94%
16 May 202692%95%
23 May 202676%86%
30 May 202684%89%
6 Jun 202682%91%
13 Jun 202685%89%
20 Jun 202689%91%
27 Jun 202684%92%
4 Jul 2026no datano data
11 Jul 202671%89%
18 Jul 202677%88%
25 Jul 202693%94%
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 202689%87%
12 Sept 202684%77%
19 Sept 202672%84%
26 Sept 202690%83%
3 Oct 202692%86%
10 Oct 202691%92%
17 Oct 202678%76%

A passenger going by the timetable at Chippenham Road / Shirland Road would find about two departures in ten leaving more than 2.5 minutes early or 5 minutes late.

Central Middlesex Hospital
On time
78%
Cut short
5.1%
Chippenham Road / Shirland Road
On time
76%
Cut short
9.7%

79 minutes was the longest gap between buses this week, at Ladbroke Grove Sainsbury's towards Chippenham Road / Shirland Road, on Saturday 17 October from 15:17 to 16:36. This excludes any gaps caused by holes in our own data. Watch it happen →

Journeys cut short

Last week: 7.4% 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.

Last four weeks: 110 journeys on route 228 were turned back before the end of the line over four weeks of watching, 26 September to 17 October 2026 — about 3.9 a day.

00.20.40.6journeys 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: 0.1 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: 0.0 cut short on an average day09:00–10:00: 0.1 cut short on an average day10:00–11:00: 0.3 cut short on an average day11:00–12:00: 0.3 cut short on an average day12:00–13:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day12:0013:00–14:00: 0.1 cut short on an average day14:00–15:00: 0.4 cut short on an average day15:00–16:00: 0.3 cut short on an average day16:00–17:00: 0.4 cut short on an average day17:00–18:00: 0.5 cut short on an average day18:00–19:00: 0.4 cut short on an average day18:0019:00–20:00: 0.3 cut short on an average day20:00–21:00: 0.4 cut short on an average day21:00–22:00: 0.1 cut short on an average day22:00–23:00: 0.1 cut short on an average day23:00–00:00: 0.1 cut short on an average daybusiest hour 17:00 — 0.5 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 Central Middlesex Hospital

Last week, 28 of 306 journeys (9%) were turned short.

  • Willesden Junction Station2.4 km short of the end 13
  • White City Bus Station8.4 km short of the end 5
  • Acton Lane2.1 km short of the end 4
  • Old Oak Common Lane / Savoy Circus4.7 km short of the end 2
  • Holland Park10.6 km short of the end 1
  • Elsewhere along the route 3

towards Chippenham Road / Shirland Road

Last week, 17 of 305 journeys (6%) were turned short.

  • Kensal House2.2 km short of the end 9
  • Ladbroke Grove Sainsbury's1.9 km short of the end 6
  • White City Bus Station6.5 km short of the end 2

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 202656% on timeno figure
2026/27 Q11 Apr – 26 Jun 202667% 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
  • Central Middlesex Hospital: 143 departures seen
  • Chippenham Road / Shirland Road: 120 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.