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287
Usually a Wrightbus.

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 287’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 endingBarking StationAbbey Wood Lane
21 Jun 2025no datano data
28 Jun 202581%91%
5 Jul 202570% thin83% thin
12 Jul 202577% thin91% thin
19 Jul 202574%81%
26 Jul 202586%92%
2 Aug 202579%83%
9 Aug 202585%88%
16 Aug 202583%89%
23 Aug 202573%83%
30 Aug 202589%93%
6 Sept 202575%78%
13 Sept 202560%72%
20 Sept 202562%84%
27 Sept 202563%89%
4 Oct 202557%82%
11 Oct 202565%88%
18 Oct 202577%90%
25 Oct 202579%87%
1 Nov 202586%87%
8 Nov 202548%81%
15 Nov 202561% thin89% thin
22 Nov 202561% thin89% thin
29 Nov 202546%70%
6 Dec 202546%55%
13 Dec 202559%78%
20 Dec 202560%83%
27 Dec 202564% thin78% thin
3 Jan 202681%86%
10 Jan 202685%88%
17 Jan 202685%84%
24 Jan 202653%75%
31 Jan 202677%86%
7 Feb 202679%91%
14 Feb 202666%86%
21 Feb 2026no datano data
28 Feb 2026no datano data
7 Mar 202671%83%
14 Mar 202682%91%
21 Mar 202666%83%
28 Mar 202667%88%
4 Apr 202673%92%
11 Apr 202685%84%
18 Apr 202676%88%
25 Apr 202664% thin89% thin
2 May 202669%96%
9 May 202668%88%
16 May 202685%95%
23 May 202656%83%
30 May 202678%87%
6 Jun 202672%88%
13 Jun 202666%84%
20 Jun 202665%87%
27 Jun 202680%86%
4 Jul 2026no datano data
11 Jul 202650%91%
18 Jul 202655%86%
25 Jul 202647%95%
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%95%
12 Sept 202655%79%
19 Sept 202659%88%
26 Sept 202658%90%
3 Oct 202650%91%
10 Oct 202655%88%
17 Oct 202663%91%

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

Barking Station
On time
63%
Cut short
0.6%
Abbey Wood Lane
On time
91%
Cut short
3.4%

52 minutes was the longest gap between buses this week, at Barking Town Centre towards Abbey Wood Lane, on Friday 16 October from 19:59 to 20:51. This excludes any gaps caused by holes in our own data. Watch it happen →

Journeys cut short

Last week: 1.2% 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 Barking Station

Last week, 5 of 469 journeys (1%) were turned short.

  • Rainham Tesco10.1 km short of the end 2
  • Barking Abbey0.8 km short of the end 1
  • Manor Way9.0 km short of the end 1
  • Westbury Road1.7 km short of the end 1

towards Abbey Wood Lane

Last week, 6 of 466 journeys (1%) were turned short.

  • New Road2.3 km short of the end 4
  • Rainham Tesco3.3 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 202683% on timeno figure
2026/27 Q11 Apr – 26 Jun 202687% 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
  • Barking Station: 273 departures seen
  • Abbey Wood Lane: 272 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.