Abstract We are interested in the solution of the Björling problem for timelike surfaces in R 1 4 \mathbb{R}_{1}^{4} . The main contribution of the paper is to present new and many examples of timelike zero mean curvature surfaces and give their explicit parametric equations. In particular cases, one observes that the parametric equations of these surfaces coincide with the timelike minimal surfaces in Lorentz–Minkowski 3-space.