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P5
Usually a Caetano E.City Gold.

72% 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 P5’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 endingElephant & Castle / Newington CausewayPatmore Estate / Drury House
21 Jun 2025no datano data
28 Jun 202541%80%
5 Jul 202553% thin62% thin
12 Jul 202574% thin82% thin
19 Jul 202545%73%
26 Jul 202544%87%
2 Aug 202573%76%
9 Aug 202540%92%
16 Aug 202566%92%
23 Aug 202568%84%
30 Aug 202557%70%
6 Sept 202533%81%
13 Sept 202533%42%
20 Sept 202556%75%
27 Sept 202531%59%
4 Oct 202548%69%
11 Oct 202538%76%
18 Oct 202550%72%
25 Oct 202563%88%
1 Nov 202564%82%
8 Nov 202553%75%
15 Nov 202562% thin69% thin
22 Nov 202557% thin77% thin
29 Nov 202568%66%
6 Dec 202554%75%
13 Dec 202544%72%
20 Dec 202556%62%
27 Dec 202580% thin75% thin
3 Jan 202673%89%
10 Jan 202647%70%
17 Jan 202657%76%
24 Jan 202657%53%
31 Jan 202662%62%
7 Feb 202660%71%
14 Feb 202645%47%
21 Feb 2026no datano data
28 Feb 2026no datano data
7 Mar 202636%76%
14 Mar 202632%70%
21 Mar 202639%66%
28 Mar 202652%84%
4 Apr 202649%85%
11 Apr 202659%76%
18 Apr 202643%86%
25 Apr 202647% thin66% thin
2 May 202652%77%
9 May 202663%84%
16 May 202656%81%
23 May 202635%70%
30 May 202666%no data
6 Jun 202648%86%
13 Jun 202642%74%
20 Jun 202650%72%
27 Jun 202648%78%
4 Jul 2026no datano data
11 Jul 202655%73%
18 Jul 202662%78%
25 Jul 202671%89%
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 202668%92%
12 Sept 202658%73%
19 Sept 202642%72%
26 Sept 202648%75%
3 Oct 202651%71%
10 Oct 202660%69%
17 Oct 202664%80%

A passenger going by the timetable at Elephant & Castle / Newington Causeway would find about four departures in ten leaving more than 2.5 minutes early or 5 minutes late.

Elephant & Castle / Newington Causeway
On time
64%
Patmore Estate / Drury House
On time
80%
Cut short
1.1%

52 minutes was the longest gap between buses this week, at Vassall Road / Camberwell New Road towards Elephant & Castle / Newington Causeway, on Wednesday 14 October from 07:04 to 07:56. This excludes any gaps caused by holes in our own data. Watch it happen →

Journeys cut short

Last week: 2.6% 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 Elephant & Castle / Newington Causeway

Last week, 16 of 457 journeys (4%) were turned short.

  • Hampton Street0.6 km short of the end 14
  • Larcom Street0.8 km short of the end 2

towards Patmore Estate / Drury House

Last week, 7 of 443 journeys (2%) were turned short.

  • Stockwell Bus Garage1.7 km short of the end 5
  • Binfield Road / Stockwell Station2.0 km short of the end 1
  • Larkhall Park1.1 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 202684% on timeno figure
2026/27 Q11 Apr – 26 Jun 202685% 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
  • Elephant & Castle / Newington Causeway: 303 departures seen
  • Patmore Estate / Drury House: 298 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.