A tabular list or schedule of the times at which successive things are to be done or happen, or of the times occupied in the parts of some process.
spec. a. A printed table or book of tables showing the times of arrival and departure of railway trains at and from the stations; also a similar table of times of arrival and departure of steamboats or other public conveyances. b. A chart used in railway traffic offices, showing by means of cross lines, in one direction representing hours and minutes and in the other miles, the position of the various trains at any given moment (Cassell’s Encycl. Dict., 1888). c. A time-sheet on which a record is kept of the time worked by each employee. d. A table showing how the time of a school or other educational institution, for any day, or for a week, is allotted to the various classes and subjects. e. Mus. A table of notes showing their relative time-value.
1768. Bath Chronicle, 27 Oct., 2/3. Kearsly’s Gentleman and Tradesman’s Pocket Ledger, for the Year 1769…. A new time table, and perpetual diary.
1838. Osborne, Guide to Grand Junction or Birm’ham, Liverpool & Manch. Rail. On and after Wednesday May 23rd…. Time Table shewing the Hours [etc.].
1838. Cornish’s Grand Junction [etc.] Railway Companion, ed. 3. Time Table, shewing the hour of each Train [etc.] after 18th June 1838.
1839. (title) Bradshaw’s Railway Time Tables … 10th Mo. 19th.
1844. J. Allen, Rept. Schools S. Distr., in Min. Comm. of Council on Education, II. 91. For the morning’s work, I have sometimes suggested the following time-table.
1844. F. C. Cook, Rept. Schools E. Distr., ibid., 178. The time-table should contain an exact account [etc.].
1856. F. E. Paget, Owlet Owlst., 194. The time-table of that man’s life was a curiosity in its way.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Time-table, a register of the time of high-water, and of the departure of steam boats, railway trains, etc.; a check upon the period of labour of workmen.
1861. M. Arnold, Pop. Educ. France, 98. The present time-table … of the lay public schools of Paris.
1862. Miss Braddon, Lady Audley, xxviii. He walked straight back to the hotel, where he called for a time-table. An express for London left Wildernsea at a quarter-past one.
18[?]. Hullah, in Stainer & Barrett, Dict. Mus. Terms (1875), s.v. Nomenclature, The Germans call these notes … the whole note, the half note, the quarter note, and so on. These appellations … form of themselves a time-table.
1889. W. S. Rockstro, in Grove, Dict. Mus., s.v., The earliest known indication of a Time Table is to be found in the well-known work on Cantus mensurabilis, written by Franco of Cologne about the middle of the 11th century…. The modern Time Table, denoting the proportionate value of all these notes, is too well known in our schoolrooms to need a word of description here.
1889. G. Findlay, Eng. Railway, 8. It was not until after some time … that the time-table became a recognised institution.
1907. Westm. Gaz., 7 May, 2/2. This is the first time that a time-table has been arranged in advance for a whole [parliamentary] Bill, but it seems to us that the procedure was justified.
