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R9
Usually an Alexander Dennis Adl Enviro 400H Mmc.

No on-time figurewe can't yet publish a reliable on-time figure for route R9. Below is how long people waited, against what the timetable alone would give.

The last week, day by day
Chance of waiting more than ten minutes if you turn up at random.

Watch a day of route R9’s buses: every bus, replayed on the map. Or click a day on the chart.

The weekly figures

The chance of waiting more than ten minutes if you turn up at random.

Week endingtowards Orpington Stationtowards Tintagel Road / Gillmans Road
21 Jun 2025no datano data
28 Jun 202543%no data
5 Jul 202539% thin38% thin
12 Jul 2025no datano data
19 Jul 202534%36%
26 Jul 202534%36%
2 Aug 202538%40%
9 Aug 202539%40%
16 Aug 202540%35%
23 Aug 202549%no data
30 Aug 202551%61%
6 Sept 2025no datano data
13 Sept 2025no datano data
20 Sept 2025no datano data
27 Sept 2025no datano data
4 Oct 2025no datano data
11 Oct 202547%no data
18 Oct 202547%no data
25 Oct 2025no data46%
1 Nov 2025no data41%
8 Nov 202541%40%
15 Nov 202545% thin40% thin
22 Nov 202542% thin42% thin
29 Nov 202547%48%
6 Dec 202548%no data
13 Dec 202544%43%
20 Dec 202545%47%
27 Dec 202550% thin52% thin
3 Jan 202649%44%
10 Jan 202645%47%
17 Jan 202646%40%
24 Jan 202641%41%
31 Jan 202645%41%
7 Feb 202644%40%
14 Feb 202644%46%
21 Feb 2026no datano data
28 Feb 2026no datano data
7 Mar 202644%39%
14 Mar 202647%47%
21 Mar 202644%45%
28 Mar 202644%46%
4 Apr 202646%46%
11 Apr 202650%48%
18 Apr 202644%45%
25 Apr 202646% thin48% thin
2 May 202647%41%
9 May 202653%50%
16 May 202647%49%
23 May 202646%47%
30 May 2026no datano data
6 Jun 202649%51%
13 Jun 202646%43%
20 Jun 2026no datano data
27 Jun 202643%45%
4 Jul 2026no datano data
11 Jul 202645%45%
18 Jul 202642%43%
25 Jul 202648%no data
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 2026no datano data
12 Sept 2026no data48%
19 Sept 202645%42%
26 Sept 202647%43%
3 Oct 202642%44%
10 Oct 202644%43%
17 Oct 202645%41%

Waiting for a bus towards Orpington Station, more than ten minutes goes by on about one trip in two. Running exactly to the timetable it would be one trip in two.

towards Orpington Station
Wait > 10 min
45%timetable alone: 43%
Wait > 20 min
11%timetable alone: 9%
Wait > 30 min
1%timetable alone: 0%
1 in 20 wait over
25 min
Cut short
0.2% 1 of 438 journeys
towards Tintagel Road / Gillmans Road
Wait > 10 min
41%timetable alone: 40%
Wait > 20 min
7%timetable alone: 5%
Wait > 30 min
0%timetable alone: 0%
1 in 20 wait over
22 min
Cut short
0.7% 3 of 403 journeys

58 minutes was the longest gap between buses this week, at Berrylands towards Orpington Station, on Sunday 11 October from 17:47 to 18:45. 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%
  • Weekdays 07:00–10:00 5.2%
  • Weekdays 10:00–16:00 2.7%
  • Weekdays 16:00–19:00 3.7%
  • Weekdays 19:00–24:00 18.2%
  • Saturdays 8.9%
  • Sundays and bank holidays 36.6%

Journeys cut short

Last week: 0.5% 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 Orpington Station

Last week, 1 of 438 journeys (0%) were turned short.

  • Orpington / Walnuts Centre1.4 km short of the end 1

towards Tintagel Road / Gillmans Road

Last week, 3 of 403 journeys (1%) were turned short.

  • Orpington Bus Station2.9 km short of the end 2
  • Spur Road / Orpington War Memorial1.1 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 202688% on timeno figure
2026/27 Q11 Apr – 26 Jun 202692% 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.
Journeys observed
  • towards Orpington Station: 438 journeys tracked across seven days
  • towards Tintagel Road / Gillmans Road: 403 journeys tracked across six days
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. 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. This route runs to a timetable, but we can't yet publish a reliable on-time figure for it, so it is measured by how long people waited, as a frequent route is. 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.