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Train Timetables

An interactive exercise on reading train timetables and making time calculations.
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This is level 1: highlighting journeys on a train timetable. Click the cells in the timetable to highlight the journeys mentioned below.

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Siam City 0639 0715 0753 0824 0904 0946 1021 1057 1145 1231 1310
Chitlom Square 0654 0730 0808 0839 0919 1001 1036 1112 1200 1246 1325
Embassy 0709 0745 0823 0854 0934 1016 1051 1127 1215 1301 1340
International 0728 0804 0842 0913 0953 1035 1110 1146 1234 1320 1359
Asoke Place 0746 0822 0900 0931 1011 1053 1128 1204 1252 1338 1417
Emporium 0803 0839 0917 0948 1028 1110 1145 1221 1309 1355 1434
Tong Thai 0813 0849 0927 0958 1038 1120 1155 1231 1319 1405 1444
Ekkamai 0829 0905 0943 1014 1054 1136 1211 1247 1335 1421 1500
Highlight the journey that starts from Siam City at 0824 and ends at Ekkamai at 1014 by first clicking on the start time and then on the end time.
Highlight the journey that starts from Siam City at 0904 and ends at Ekkamai at 1054 by first clicking on the start time and then on the end time.
Highlight the journey that starts from Asoke Place at 1011 and ends at Ekkamai at 1054 by first clicking on the start time and then on the end time.
Highlight the journey that starts from Chitlom Square at 0730 and ends at International at 0804 by first clicking on the start time and then on the end time.
Highlight the journey that starts from Chitlom Square at 1001 and ends at Tong Thai at 1120 by first clicking on the start time and then on the end time.
Highlight the journey that starts from Embassy at 1051 and ends at Tong Thai at 1155 by first clicking on the start time and then on the end time.
Highlight the journey that starts from Embassy at 0745 and ends at Ekkamai at 0905 by first clicking on the start time and then on the end time.
Highlight the journey that starts from Embassy at 0745 and ends at Tong Thai at 0849 by first clicking on the start time and then on the end time.
Highlight the journey that starts from International at 0804 and ends at Tong Thai at 0849 by first clicking on the start time and then on the end time.
Highlight the journey that starts from Siam City at 0715 and ends at Ekkamai at 0905 by first clicking on the start time and then on the end time.

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Try your best to answer the questions above. Type your answers into the boxes provided leaving no spaces. As you work through the exercise regularly click the "check" button. If you have any wrong answers, do your best to do corrections but if there is anything you don't understand, please ask your teacher for help.

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Level 1 - Highlighting journeys on a train timetable

Level 2 - Finding information from a train timetable

Level 3 - Finding information from a real train timetable

Level 4 - Create a timetable from the given clues

Answers to this exercise are available lower down this page when you are logged in to your Transum account. If you don’t yet have a Transum subscription one can be very quickly set up if you are a teacher, tutor or parent.

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Example

The video above is from RawMaths.

You may also want to use a calculator to check your working. See Calculator Workout skill 12.

Don't wait until you have finished the exercise before you click on the 'Check' button. Click it often as you work through the questions to see if you are answering them correctly. You can double-click the 'Check' button to make it float at the bottom of your screen.

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