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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak
| Luckily I only commute up twice a week into town, the 0920 which is the last 'peak' service I can normally get a seat on if I go in the first carriage but fills up by the time we get to Brockley, alth... |
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rbmartin |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak
| [quote]As an aside, does anyone know what the London Bridge to Crystal Palace service is like? I believe they have other routes not on the Forest Hill line which may be helpful once the ELL is up and ... |
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02-11-2009, 11:21 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| It might be worth contacting overgroundinfo (at) tfl.gov.uk who were helpful with my enquiries about the station. |
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27-10-2009, 02:08 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| [quote]Did you find the ticket screen difficult to read? [/quote]
It was harder to read yes, the other thing I noticed was that LOROL haven't updated the list of cards that are accepted above the c... |
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rbmartin |
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26-10-2009, 08:00 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| I had a peep today on Platform 1 seeing as I'm now commuting by train thanks to the 176 getting held up for 20 mins at a time in Waterloo. I take it the concrete holes is where the lift shaft is?
I... |
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rbmartin |
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26-10-2009, 03:29 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak
| Is Southern cutting these services along our line before the ELL starts because of the loss of revenue along the line since TfL/LOROL took over management of the stations from NX Gate to West Croydon? |
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rbmartin |
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26-10-2009, 03:25 PM |
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Thread: Who will use ELL and who will stick to London Bridge services?
Post: RE: Who will use ELL and who will stick to London ...
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22-10-2009, 09:09 PM |
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Thread: Who will use ELL and who will stick to London Bridge services?
Post: RE: Who will use ELL and who will stick to London ...
| You should really have a third option for both. |
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22-10-2009, 06:49 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| I contacted London Overground with my own enquiry about FH Station and if you have a Solo debit card, this can be used now, although they claim that I won't be able to purchase anything on Oyster unti... |
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rbmartin |
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22-10-2009, 04:35 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak
| I doubt the info desk staff would be aware anyway as they work for Southeastern, although I expect a week before the changes are implemented staff and on the noticeboards will announce that customers ... |
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rbmartin |
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19-10-2009, 03:50 PM |
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Thread: 197 bus.
Post: RE: 197 bus.
| Bizarrely TfL's own website doesn't mention the Penge High Street roadworks.
The irony is the roadworks that the site mentions isn't really affecting the 176 and 197 in Sydenham. |
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17-10-2009, 02:31 PM |
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Thread: 197 bus.
Post: RE: 197 bus.
| The 197 is severely disrupted northbound towards Peckham due to roadworks on Penge High Street where they're dug up one side of the road next to Homebase. It took me 40 mins to get back to FH on Thur... |
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17-10-2009, 11:46 AM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak
| Ah, so those extended trains to Dorking and Guildford will no longer run and the off-peak services will run on the fast line instead, leaving us with 2x to Victoria and 2x to Caterham.
Once the ELL... |
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17-10-2009, 12:51 AM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak
| Is it the Sutton or Caterham line services that we're losing due to the 'cuts?' |
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16-10-2009, 10:52 PM |
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Thread: Friends of the P4
Post: RE: Friends of the P4
| According to the London Bus Routes website, Selkent have been reawarded the contract to run the P4 with 10 existing single deckers from May 1st 2010.
http://www.londonbusroutes.net/changes.htm |
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16-10-2009, 10:49 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak
| You can also check it out via the national rail enquiries website on your mobile phone if it's internet enabled, but it's a bit fiddly. |
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11-10-2009, 11:03 AM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park Rail Station
Post: RE: Train Service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| I suspect they went on a TfL customer service course. |
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06-10-2009, 02:00 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| I finally used the station this evening since the new regime took over the station. There was no guards on the platform 2 gates who left the main buggy/wheelchair gate open and only one guard supervi... |
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02-10-2009, 11:46 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train Service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| Pics of the interior of the new ELL overground trains have been posted on another forum as they're now in operation on the West London Line between Clapham Junction and Willesden Jnc.
If you look, ... |
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rbmartin |
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30-09-2009, 10:59 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train Service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| Would passengers on the Caterham branch use the service all the way into and out of London though? It'd be faster for them to change at East Croydon for fast services to LB and Victoria, although I c... |
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30-09-2009, 09:47 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train Service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| Bar the new through connections to Canada Water (Jubilee) and Whitechapel (District and Hammersmith & City) that we'll have next year, we won't experience anything special until the ELL is extended to... |
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29-09-2009, 04:24 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| Wikipedia has a better use of the term, apparently it's street slang for a public transport robbery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steaming_(crime) |
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29-09-2009, 04:16 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| I hope this will stop 'steaming' (if that's the right word?) of trains on our line.
Funny enough the one time I was mugged on a train was on the Greenwich line and not on ours. |
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29-09-2009, 11:55 AM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train Service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| Unlike Vauxhall which has Pimlico in Zone 1 and Stockwell in Zone 2 either side, the East London Line stations next to Shoreditch High Street on either side are in Zone 2.
The decision to move Shor... |
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29-09-2009, 11:50 AM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train Service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| So thanks to TfL's shortfall, we're going to have to pay the same price to travel to parts of East London as if you were going via London Bridge. Great! :thumbdown: |
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28-09-2009, 03:17 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train Service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| From the Sydenham Town website, although the info is about their station, most of the info should be relevant to FH and HOP.
http://sydenham.org.uk/news_railway_09_09.html |
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24-09-2009, 01:14 PM |
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Thread: Friends of the P4
Post: RE: Friends of the P4
| As I live just inside the Southwark boundary, I also have the choice of the 185, but it takes way too long to get to Lewisham, which makes that route only viable if you wish to commute to Catford.
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23-09-2009, 10:30 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train Service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| Both have the same owner. GoVia, part of the Go Ahead Group, they also run the London Central and Metrobus local bus services. |
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23-09-2009, 10:23 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train Service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| I went past the station yesterday and noticed staff were wearing London Overground uniforms and for the first time, I saw staff at the platform 2 gates at Perry Vale.
For those of you who've bought... |
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23-09-2009, 07:10 PM |
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Thread: Friends of the P4
Post: RE: Friends of the P4
| I find the P4 pretty hit and miss. One bus I've rode on was the same type of bus that is also used on the 356 which is a lower frequency bus route, so you can imagine if you get the single door buses,... |
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23-09-2009, 07:03 PM |
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Thread: Extend 63 Bus to Honor Oak Park Station?
Post: RE: Extend 63 Bus to Honor Oak Park Station?
| [quote]The current nonsense of buses being turned around in Forest Hill Road near the Wood Vale turning was never a feature until route truncation was imposed some 5 years ago when residents(Southwark... |
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13-08-2009, 07:43 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| Let the cookoff stay, despite the traffic problems stretching even over my side of the border on Lordship Lane.
However public transport was stretched, I was delayed on the 356 coming back from B... |
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13-08-2009, 06:57 PM |
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Thread: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
Post: RE: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
| Not to mention how many times has the Abbey in London Road has been robbed over the years. Incidentally I don't remember Barclays having many robberies. |
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04-06-2009, 12:29 AM |
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Thread: Buses
Post: RE: P4 Bus
| Longer single deckers may be a solution, although it seems along with our other hoppa bus the 356, it's the shorter the bus, the more we'll pack them in. |
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rbmartin |
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07-01-2009, 10:50 PM |
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Thread: Buses
Post: RE: P4 Bus
| The P4 should really be a double decker by now. Even the 202 bus in Sydenham which recently changed operators from Selkent (who run the P4) to Metrobus now has double deckers which seem to be packed,... |
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rbmartin |
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07-01-2009, 07:25 PM |
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Thread: Tesco, London Road
Post: RE: Tesco, London Road
| If I recall Esso still own the site, but Tesco run it on their behalf as part of a deal to put Tesco Express in petrol stations.
I've used the cash machine outside and have had no problems, but hav... |
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31-12-2008, 06:17 PM |
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Thread: Radio reception in SE23
Post: RE: Radio reception in SE23
| On the whole radio reception is fine across FH, although there are loads of illegal stations on the FM band.
Has anyone tried to get our so called local station South London Radio on 107.3 FM? It'... |
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22-10-2008, 12:54 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| As well as the BBC London coverage, there is also an article in the current edition of Private Eye magazine. |
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21-08-2008, 08:21 PM |
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Thread: Local Mobile Signal Strength
Post: RE: Mobile signal in upper Forest Hill
| T-mobile/Virgin Mobile share the same transmitters. I have the same problem with coverage from Horniman Gardens down into Lordship Lane by Underhill Road. |
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01-08-2008, 09:31 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Ticket Barriers and Gates at FH Station
| I was at FH station this afternoon and was pleased to see the staff at the Perry Vale gate help a young mother lift a hefty buggy over the footbridge. Quite shocked to see the amount of staff at 2.30... |
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01-08-2008, 09:27 PM |
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Thread: Extend 63 Bus to Honor Oak Park Station?
Post: RE: Buses to Honor Oak Park station
| The whole point of cutting back the 63 was the stretch between Forest Hill Road and Crystal Palace was totally unreliable, while most buses were turned back at Honor Oak. |
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21-06-2008, 08:27 PM |
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Thread: Ticket Machine outside FH station
Post: RE: Ticket Machine outside FH station
| I ripped my skin on my hand thanks to the ticket being stuck! |
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21-06-2008, 08:23 PM |
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Thread: Rail line closures
Post: RE: Rail line closures
| That's because of engineering works the southbound line is closed between LB and Norwood Junction on Sunday and BH Monday.
A half hourly service will run northbound to LB. |
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03-05-2008, 10:23 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill on the tube map!
Post: RE: Forest Hill on the tube map!
| Forest Hill is also on the new pocket edition of the Tube map, January 08. |
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