Sydenham Town Forum

And can I say that in two recent Meet the Manager sessions run by Southern Railways that I have attended, the managers weren't just "junior media fodder management scapegoats who couldn't instigate any change even if they wanted to". A couple of people on the main board of Southern Railway...

At the Meet the Manager meeting I raised three points: 1. Can the door from Ststion Approach into the booking office be widened? Answer: TfL are working with LBL on this issue and it is hoped that this will be part of the Sydenham Approach improvements. 2. Will indicator boards be improved? Answer: ...

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There will be a Meet the Manager session at Sydenham Station between 16.30 and 19.00 on Wednesday 7th October. Now is your chance to talk to the new TfL management about issues to do with the station, Oystercards and the East London Line. (Please note - TfL are in charge of our stations and the ELL....

Southern has said that in May 2010, the "loop line" to Victoria will commence between 6.30am - 7am, which is great news. And from May, if you miss one of these twice-hourly direct services to Victoria or want to travel earlier, passengers from Sydenham will also be able to use one of the f...

I’m indebted to Michael Abrahams of the FH Society for the following information: At last night's council meeting the first 700 signatures on the petition were handed to the mayor on our behalf by Councillor Feakes. Councillor Paschoud had asked a written question about train services and the deputy...

No - we won't lose those services. But from December (the new timetable) they will start from LB instead of CX. I've been given an early copy of the December timetable by Southern so I can tell you exactly when the last trains will leave LB after December: Currrently the last trains to Sydenham leav...

Called up to speak but then "stood down", I'm afraid! Talk about climate change and Baroness Scotland went on for far too long to get on to rail travel. Pity - because the guest on the show was Kulveer Ranger, Director of Transport Policy for the Mayor. And Boris stood on a policy of bette...

At 9.15pm this evening a TfL staff member (Ferdinand) was busy patrolling the station - and he was patrolling not standing still or sitting inside the building. He told me that he will be there until 1am. I was delighted to see him move on two boys who were trying to use the station as a skateboard ...

The ticket office was firmly shut at 10.30am this morning. No sign of debranding at any stations along the line. It will be very interesting to see if the station is staffed after 8pm this evening. I'll take a check. Let's hope that TfL don't prove to be as unreliable as Southern. It certainly looks...

Admin is correct - Now is the time for our politicians to step forward and sort out this situation.

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Don't miss tonight's rail meeting -

7.30PM NABORHOOD CENTRE

Speakers From TfL, London Overground and Southern

Ronski - Sorry you can't make the meeting. But I think you've put it in a nutshell. If we don't get the very best future rail transport system we can achieve, many of the hopes for future regeneration of our area will be set back. Don't leave it to someone else to fight for the future of Sydenham. G...

Read the submissions by the FH and Sydenham Society above. These are my views also.

The population of this area - SE26, Lewisham or south-east London - is lower than it was 50 or 60 years ago. The population of Greater London was 8.6m in 1939 and in 2006 (the last reliable count) was 7.46m. GLA studies (carried out with the help of London university departments) estimate a populati...

Platform building at LB restricting capacity? Not for many others in the Borough it seems. From 13 December 2009, the following timetable increases will come into effect: Blackheath to LB - off peak services to be increased from 4tph to 6tph Hither Green to LB - Total number of trains during morning...

With respect, I don't think so. If you want to join the Jubilee Line, then I would concede completely that your best way to travel is via the ELL and change at Canada Water, not to go to direct to LB and then take the long and usually crowded walk through LB station. Apart from anything else, the en...

Poppy - Correct me if I am wrong - but what you want to know is how long the journey to London Bridge will take once the ELL is running compared with the current journey on Southern. The journey time from Sydenham to London Bridge by Southern trains is 16 minutes. This is exactly the same time as it...

Oystercard PAYG has twice been delayed. The problem is that some of the Train Operating Companies failed to agree terms with TfL on the operation of the service (Southern who operate our local trains signed up very early incidentally - so don't blame them). Oystercard PAYG will come into operation o...

14 trains per hour isn't unfeasible. 14 trains (8 ELL and 6 LB trains) are going to run in each direction during the morning rush hours from May and there is no technical or signalling reason why this couldn't continue 24 hours per day if necessary. Indeed the line could handle quite a bit more than...