1.3 minexcess wait in the week ending 17 October 2026. Half of London's frequent routes kept it to 1.4 min or less.
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The weekly figures
Excess wait, then the chance of waiting more than ten minutes if you turn up at random.
| Week ending | towards Archway Station | towards Brent Cross Shopping Centre |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Jun 2025 | no data | no data |
| 28 Jun 2025 | no data | no data |
| 5 Jul 2025 | no data | no data |
| 12 Jul 2025 | no data | no data |
| 19 Jul 2025 | no data | no data |
| 26 Jul 2025 | 1.7 min · 31% | 2.0 min · 33% |
| 2 Aug 2025 | 1.0 min · 27% | 1.4 min · 29% |
| 9 Aug 2025 | 1.0 min · 27% | 1.3 min · 30% |
| 16 Aug 2025 | 1.5 min · 31% | 1.7 min · 32% |
| 23 Aug 2025 | 1.4 min · 29% | 1.7 min · 31% |
| 30 Aug 2025 | 2.0 min · 35% | 1.8 min · 34% |
| 6 Sept 2025 | 2.4 min · 36% | 2.2 min · 35% |
| 13 Sept 2025 | 3.8 min · 43% | 3.1 min · 41% |
| 20 Sept 2025 | 2.8 min · 38% | 2.4 min · 36% |
| 27 Sept 2025 | 3.2 min · 40% | 3.0 min · 40% |
| 4 Oct 2025 | 1.9 min · 34% | 2.5 min · 36% |
| 11 Oct 2025 | 1.9 min · 33% | 1.9 min · 34% |
| 18 Oct 2025 | 2.5 min · 36% | 2.5 min · 36% |
| 25 Oct 2025 | 1.8 min · 32% | 1.9 min · 33% |
| 1 Nov 2025 | 2.1 min · 34% | 1.8 min · 33% |
| 8 Nov 2025 | 2.7 min · 38% | 2.6 min · 37% |
| 15 Nov 2025 | 3.2 min · 39% thin | 3.0 min · 39% thin |
| 22 Nov 2025 | 2.7 min · 36% thin | 3.0 min · 37% thin |
| 29 Nov 2025 | 2.8 min · 37% | 2.6 min · 37% |
| 6 Dec 2025 | 3.0 min · 38% | 2.8 min · 38% |
| 13 Dec 2025 | 2.4 min · 35% | 2.5 min · 36% |
| 20 Dec 2025 | 1.8 min · 32% | 1.9 min · 33% |
| 27 Dec 2025 | 1.3 min · 33% thin | 1.3 min · 32% thin |
| 3 Jan 2026 | 1.7 min · 34% | 1.7 min · 34% |
| 10 Jan 2026 | 1.8 min · 32% | 2.1 min · 33% |
| 17 Jan 2026 | no data | no data |
| 24 Jan 2026 | no data | no data |
| 31 Jan 2026 | 3.3 min · 40% | 3.0 min · 37% |
| 7 Feb 2026 | 2.1 min · 35% | 2.2 min · 35% |
| 14 Feb 2026 | 2.2 min · 35% | 2.2 min · 35% |
| 21 Feb 2026 | no data | no data |
| 28 Feb 2026 | no data | no data |
| 7 Mar 2026 | 1.8 min · 32% | 2.0 min · 33% |
| 14 Mar 2026 | 1.0 min · 30% | 1.3 min · 32% |
| 21 Mar 2026 | 1.2 min · 31% | 1.5 min · 33% |
| 28 Mar 2026 | 1.4 min · 32% | 1.3 min · 31% |
| 4 Apr 2026 | 0.6 min · 33% | 0.9 min · 33% |
| 11 Apr 2026 | 1.3 min · 37% | 0.9 min · 36% |
| 18 Apr 2026 | 1.2 min · 31% | 1.5 min · 33% |
| 25 Apr 2026 | 1.9 min · 35% thin | 2.3 min · 37% thin |
| 2 May 2026 | 1.7 min · 33% | 1.4 min · 33% |
| 9 May 2026 | 1.1 min · 32% | 1.3 min · 33% |
| 16 May 2026 | 1.1 min · 29% | 1.3 min · 32% |
| 23 May 2026 | 0.9 min · 29% | 0.9 min · 30% |
| 30 May 2026 | 1.1 min · 30% | 1.4 min · 32% |
| 6 Jun 2026 | 1.5 min · 32% | 1.5 min · 33% |
| 13 Jun 2026 | 1.1 min · 30% | 0.9 min · 30% |
| 20 Jun 2026 | 1.2 min · 30% | 0.9 min · 29% |
| 27 Jun 2026 | 1.1 min · 30% | 1.1 min · 31% |
| 4 Jul 2026 | no data | no data |
| 11 Jul 2026 | 1.4 min · 32% | 1.1 min · 31% |
| 18 Jul 2026 | 1.6 min · 33% | 1.5 min · 33% |
| 25 Jul 2026 | 1.4 min · 30% | 1.3 min · 30% |
| 1 Aug 2026 | no data | no data |
| 8 Aug 2026 | no data | no data |
| 15 Aug 2026 | no data | no data |
| 22 Aug 2026 | no data | no data |
| 29 Aug 2026 | no data | no data |
| 5 Sept 2026 | 1.4 min · 33% | 1.0 min · 32% |
| 12 Sept 2026 | 1.8 min · 35% | 1.6 min · 34% |
| 19 Sept 2026 | 1.4 min · 32% | 1.3 min · 32% |
| 26 Sept 2026 | 1.6 min · 32% | 1.8 min · 34% |
| 3 Oct 2026 | 1.4 min · 30% | 1.2 min · 30% |
| 10 Oct 2026 | 1.2 min · 31% | 1.3 min · 32% |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 1.3 min · 31% | 1.3 min · 32% |
Waiting for a bus towards Brent Cross Shopping Centre, more than ten minutes goes by on about one trip in three. Running exactly to the timetable it would be one trip in five.
- Excess wait
- 1.3 min
- Wait > 10 min
- 31%timetable alone: 21%
- Wait > 20 min
- 5%timetable alone: 1%
- Wait > 30 min
- 1%timetable alone: 0%
- 1 in 20 wait over
- 19 min
- Cut short
- 0.8% 5 of 600 journeys
- Excess wait
- 1.3 min
- Wait > 10 min
- 32%timetable alone: 22%
- Wait > 20 min
- 4%timetable alone: 1%
- Wait > 30 min
- 1%timetable alone: 0%
- 1 in 20 wait over
- 19 min
- Cut short
- 4.1% 24 of 588 journeys
44 minutes was the longest gap between buses this week, at Dartmouth Park Hill towards Archway Station, on Thursday 15 October from 16:55 to 17:39. This excludes any gaps caused by holes in our own data. Watch it happen →
When it goes wrong
Chance of waiting more than twenty minutes if you turn up at random, by time of day, averaged over the most recent weeks of data. The mark on each bar is the chance if everything ran to timetable.
- Weekdays 05:00–07:00 4.7% 0.6 min excess wait
- Weekdays 07:00–10:00 3.3% 1.7 min excess wait
- Weekdays 10:00–16:00 2.3% 1.5 min excess wait
- Weekdays 16:00–19:00 3.6% 1.8 min excess wait
- Weekdays 19:00–24:00 7.1% 1.2 min excess wait
- Saturdays 4.9% 1.3 min excess wait
- Sundays and bank holidays 6.8% 1.1 min excess wait
Journeys cut short
Last week: 2.4% 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.
Where it's felt most: nowhere much. Buses cut short added no more than 0.3 minutes to the average wait at any stop last week.
towards Archway Station
Last week, 5 of 600 journeys (1%) were turned short.
Buses cut short added no more than 0.3 minutes to the wait at any stop in this direction.
- Swains Lane1.2 km short of the end 3
- Primrose Hill Road5.0 km short of the end 1
- South End Green3.4 km short of the end 1
towards Brent Cross Shopping Centre
Last week, 24 of 588 journeys (4%) were turned short.
Buses cut short added no more than 0.1 minutes to the wait at any stop in this direction.
- Claremont Way1.3 km short of the end 6
- Mapledown School1.0 km short of the end 5
- Somerton Road2.6 km short of the end 4
- West End Green4.7 km short of the end 3
- Clitterhouse Road South1.8 km short of the end 2
- Elsewhere along the route 4
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
| Quarter | TfL | Ours |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 Q313 Sept – 2 Jan 2026 | 2.36 min | 2.30 min |
| 2026/27 Q11 Apr – 26 Jun 2026 | 0.98 min | 1.24 min |
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.
Why mine is usually a little higher. When a bus is turned back before the end of the line, everyone waiting further along has to wait for the next one. My figure counts that waiting; TfL's published figure appears not to. Take it out and the two come close: across London in April to June 2026, my average excess wait falls from 1.39 to 1.23 minutes against TfL's 1.08, and on the routes where the two differed most it lands almost exactly on TfL's number.
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.
- Journeys observed
- towards Archway Station: 600 journeys tracked across seven days
- towards Brent Cross Shopping Centre: 588 journeys tracked across seven days
- How it is measured
- Every day, 05:00–23:59. Waits are measured along the route at TfL's timing points, in each direction, against the timetable — not at the ends of the route, where a bus turned back early counts as if it had run. 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)
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