Guides and notes
How to read a timetable, what the delay figures on this site mean, and how they are measured. Written from the archive, and short on anything we cannot show you.
Why a train can be late at one station and on time at the next
Delay is not a single property of a train. It is a measurement taken at a place, and it changes along the route. Understanding that is the difference between reading a punctuality figure correctly and being misled by one.
Reading a Pakistan Railways timetable: a plain guide
What the arrival and departure columns actually mean, why a train carries UP or DN after its number, how an overnight service crosses midnight on paper, and how to tell a scheduled time from a recorded one.
Up and down: how Pakistan Railways numbers its trains
Every Pakistani train carries a number and a direction, and the two are not independent. Across the 105 passenger services we track, the pattern holds without a single exception in one direction and with exactly one in the other. Here is the rule, the evidence, and the one train that breaks it.