Compiled by Duncan MacAuslan
This historical listing of Sydney bus timetables is not intended to contain every issue of Government bus time tables – such a document would be hundreds of pages long. Instead it records the first and last issue of a series of timetables.
This list is not considered complete and comments/ additions are welcome.
Code: Each timetable has been issued a code, used for cross referencing purposes, beginning:
SS – Sydney State (for a history of the names of Government Operators see What’s in a Name in references below).
SP – Sydney Private
The three digit number relates to the prime route in the timetable and a suffix letter where the number has been used multiple times.
Brackets around an entry indicate the route is deleted.
Earliest date – oldest time table in the author’s collection under this code – not necessarily the first issue.
Latest Date – if deleted the last date the time table was issued– not the route’s deletion date.
Coded – for a while in the 1980s timetables were coded AVTT as in W101. The letter codes used were:
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E |
Eastern |
Routes 300 – 399, 417 and industrials |
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M |
Manly Wharf |
Routes 100 – 177 |
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N |
Northern |
Routes 175 – 299 |
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W |
Western |
Routes 400 – 542 |
The last two digits were the time table code and the first one or two the version number.
The highest number reached was M1006 for the tenth issue of the 144/50 before the system ceased to be used in 1987. The annual serial number remained in use for handbills.
Style –the first date of a major style of time table. A separate document will detail these.
UD UTA District
TG – Transit Graphics
Abbreviations:
Del/Deleted – last known date of operation
Prev - previous
r/n – renumbered
North Western Routes 500 - 599
Special Tourist and shoppers, also combined ferry bus timetables (to Come)
Private – these timetables are only recorded where the Government has acquired a private route
The following documents referred to in this series are available from the author as pdf files. Email to dmacaus1@bigpond.net.au
What’s in a Name – by Ross Willson – gives details of the various government organisations that have run buses in Sydney.
Industrial Route History – by Duncan MacAuslan – attempts to record all the government industrial services.