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Thread: Thameslink trains - sign the petition for a decent service
Post: RE: Thameslink trains - sign the petition for a de...
| and take a look at how poor the actual performance of trains is at http://www.recenttraintimes.co.uk/Home/Search?Op=Srch&Fr=Crofton+Park+%28CFT%29&To=London+Blackfriars+%28BFR%29&TimTyp=A&TimDay=6a&Da... |
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Thread: Thameslink trains - sign the petition for a decent service
Post: Thameslink trains - sign the petition for a decent...
| Hi all,
Sick of the dismal Thameslink service, particularly on the Catford Loop (Crofton Park etc)? I'm helping with a local campaign to get improvements, starting with the day to day task of ru... |
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26-01-2016, 08:42 AM |
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Thread: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
Post: RE: Train Commuter - Memory Lane
| What great photos.
Very sad at how much we've lost since that 1970 photo, albeit the service is so, so much better! |
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05-01-2016, 12:22 PM |
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Thread: Royal Mail Delivery Problems
Post: RE: Royal Mail Delivery Problems
| I've complained as well. We're on Agnew Road, south of HOP station. No post then other people's post - all got much worse recently.
Got the standard reply about how concerned they were etc etc and... |
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18-12-2015, 08:51 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Decker, do you know if that's what they are actually planning? Gulp is my reaction to closing that downward escalator. |
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15-01-2015, 05:17 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Staggering isn't it? I know they've got antiquated IT and signalling etc etc but why should we care about all that? [/align] |
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15-01-2015, 05:14 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| I got that email too.
I started off thinking - ah, well at least someone is saying sorry, that is a start; and it's not the people who are responsible for the worst of it either (i.e. Network Rail... |
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15-01-2015, 04:07 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Completely agree David W.
And keep up the research! But if you could lay out where you're starting from and going to exactly (stations, not your home address!) that would make it more useful. |
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15-01-2015, 12:57 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Where are you coming from plastic, FH?
Have you tried going to East Croydon, then fast to CJunction? Not sure it's a good idea, just an idea.
You're alive to the C Palace route.
Up or over ... |
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15-01-2015, 11:39 AM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| How has it been in the mornings the last couple of days, on Southern or Overground? |
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14-01-2015, 04:03 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Like the exit in Ikea ;-) |
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06-01-2015, 05:45 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Sorry, I take it all back - that shows you're quite right. Amazing how I'd blanked that out. I still can't quite believe it's there, but the photo shows it is.
Switching that to downwards would be... |
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06-01-2015, 02:57 PM |
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Thread: Lifts at Honor Oak Park station
Post: RE: Lifts at Honor Oak Park station
| Hooray!
(would have been even better if they'd been open last night when I had two bikes to haul up...) |
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06-01-2015, 02:52 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| For the millionth time, NO.
I am talking about northbound Overground to Jubilee line. There is famously just one, horrendously crowded escalator. It goes down. There is no escalator to go up, so... |
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05-01-2015, 04:56 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Indeed - but that's FROM the Jubilee line TO the Overground.
The crush point is the other way around - FROM Overground (particularly northbound) to Jubilee. Where there is only one escalator. |
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05-01-2015, 11:20 AM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| If you have to hold the train you start knackering the whole timetable, no matter how much recasting you do - surely?
And which escalator is it that you could reverse that would help with the flow ... |
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02-01-2015, 06:10 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Fine, but in terms of improving this interchange day to day for folk, what options are there beyond rebuilding?
The key pressure point is northbound ELL to Jubilee line - where for direct access th... |
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02-01-2015, 01:37 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| I'm still not getting this - how would changing the up escalator to down help? It's going to the wrong place. |
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02-01-2015, 11:41 AM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Am I being dense, but how do you mean both escalators down only? There's only one escalator to make anything at the key crush point - from northbound Overground platform to Jubilee line platforms. |
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31-12-2014, 03:15 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Nick M - if only train franchising worked on the basis of logic, as you imply.
But I agree that it's not about being spoiled. The reality is that the London B service, when running, copes fine in ... |
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31-12-2014, 12:01 PM |
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Thread: Hills and Parkes deli up for sale
Post: RE: Hills and Parkes deli up for sale
| Tinkerbell - I agree with all those points. H&P pricing was way above the level those factors would take it to. I don't expect it to be S'bury's price, but I don't expect the sort of multiples it is r... |
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16-10-2014, 03:24 PM |
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Thread: Gogi's Off Licence closed
Post: RE: Gogi's Off Licence closed
| Hoona - I really can't see why.
And Gogi's is dire, everyone knows that. |
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16-10-2014, 03:20 PM |
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Thread: Hills and Parkes deli up for sale
Post: RE: Hills and Parkes deli up for sale
| The criticisms on here are in my view well-founded.
It did some things well enough:
- overall look
- coffee
- bread choice (depending a bit on what you went for)
- Scotch eggs
But it fell d... |
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16-10-2014, 11:56 AM |
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Thread: Lifts at Honor Oak Park station
Post: RE: Lifts at HOP Station
| The rate of progress is staggeringly slow. |
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13-10-2014, 10:18 AM |
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Thread: (Supposedly) replacement bus service
Post: RE: (Supposedly) replacement bus service
| Make sure you complain to both Southern and TfL and tell them each that you are complaining to them and the other. Compensation vouchers should be your due at teh least I would think |
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08-10-2014, 02:12 PM |
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Thread: Cycling into/through central London
Post: RE: Cycling into/through central London
| Yes, think E and C is a separate effort.
I think the key thing about these 2 new routes is that they are a start. If they can be done and shown to work well enough then hopefully there can be more... |
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04-09-2014, 12:16 PM |
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Thread: Cycling into/through central London
Post: Cycling into/through central London
| TfL consultations are out.
North South mostly segregated cycle track from Elephant to King's Cross:
https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/cycling/northsouth
East West mostly seg. track from Tower Hi... |
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03-09-2014, 12:38 PM |
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Thread: McLarens/Coffee Bay in HOP Closed?
Post: RE: McLarens/Coffee Bay in HOP Closed?
| Agree with poster above. Went recently and it was very average indeed. |
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30-07-2014, 04:43 PM |
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Thread: New coffee shop
Post: RE: New coffee shop
| If we're talking wine bars then the quintessential one locally for me is in Crofton Pk - Mr Lawrence.
Next door is the much-bearded beer haunt, London Beer Dispensary (where Mr L wine bar was, som... |
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29-07-2014, 05:18 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park - photos from 19th century and now
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park - photos from 19th century and ...
| Agree about the high st. Shop fronts also an issue, as all over the UK. |
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29-07-2014, 12:17 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park - photos from 19th century and now
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park - photos from 19th century and ...
| Agree about One Tree Hill - it's rather over-vegetated. I think there could be more of a balance between vegetation/wildlife haven and views. But it all costs money to manage - easier and cheaper to l... |
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29-07-2014, 10:37 AM |
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Thread: Why i moved to SE23
Post: RE: Why i moved to SE23
| Dear me, can we be a bit more accurate about place names please?
Honor Oak Park has the train station (and is to my mind quite distinct from Forest Hill).
Honor Oak lost its train station long ... |
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25-07-2014, 02:14 PM |
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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: Capitol will revert to a cinema.
| I agree about chain pubs, but I make a distinction for Wetherspoons. They have good beer, fair food, nice atmospheres, good staff, great prices, fabulous buildings that they do an alright job of looki... |
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24-06-2014, 10:24 AM |
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Thread: New Councillor for Crofton Park
Post: RE: New Councillor for Crofton Park
| Hello.
Help us get the two trains per hour service from Crofton Park improved! |
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09-06-2014, 10:12 AM |
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Thread: Down escalator at Canada Water
Post: RE: Down escalator at Canada Water
| Yes, it's not the one the OP is thinking of. Sadly. |
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29-04-2014, 12:36 PM |
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Thread: To the owners of the pizza place @ The Old Bank
Post: RE: To the owners of the pizza place @ The Old Ban...
| Given they look to have more demand than they can quite cope with still, the signage is probably not their priority.
The food and service are consistently excellent and good respectively. Surely t... |
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14-04-2014, 03:05 PM |
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Thread: That impossible question: how safe is Honor Oak Park?
Post: RE: That impossible question: how safe is Honor Oa...
| I also echo what's above. I'm a bloke, but have lived in Honor Oak (i.e. P Rye Park side of One Tree Hill) and then Honor Oak Park (south of the station) for most of the time since 2007.
No incide... |
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20-03-2014, 11:10 AM |
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Thread: Parking controls in HOP
Post: RE: Parking controls in HOP
| I agree with the be careful what you wish for points.
Having our house renovated at the moment, and tradespeople just being able to park is a Godsend.
We don't have a car, we use the Zipcar. T... |
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21-01-2014, 11:40 AM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: Planning: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (was The Old Ba...
| Ach, why can't it be sooner! (I know, I know - you can see them working in there). I'm just impatient. |
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10-01-2014, 11:15 AM |
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Thread: To all my fellow forumites
Post: RE: To all my fellow forumites
| Yes, Happy Christmas. I was feeling it was a bit soppy to come on here and just write that.
But now that someone else has, I have the perfect excuse! |
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24-12-2013, 04:34 PM |
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Thread: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
Post: RE: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
| Punch Taverns not having the right idea...whatever next? |
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18-12-2013, 10:56 AM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: Planning: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (was The Old Ba...
| Boy oh boy can I not wait for this to open... |
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13-12-2013, 05:56 PM |
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Thread: Which doctors?
Post: RE: Which doctors?
| I had the impression you could now choose, or there was more flexibility than before - worth checking.
I moved to the Jenner when I moved over the hill from Honor Oak. Disastrous place, chaoticall... |
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19-10-2013, 01:36 PM |
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Thread: Cycle routes from HOP to Oxford Street/West End
Post: RE: Cycle routes from HOP to Oxford Street/West En...
| I'd also recommend the London Cycling Campaign planner:
http://routes.lcc.org.uk/journey/ |
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Thread: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
Post: RE: A plan to save the Honor Oak pub?
| I've sent my email in and hope I can help in some way. Think it's a great idea, and if done right I believe it should thrive. The Ivy House example and FHS involvement are encouraging.
The comments... |
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Thread: Forest Hill - Pros and Cons?
Post: RE: Forest Hill - Pros and Cons?
| For the avoidance of confusion I talk about the ELL since 'overground' includes services to Barking, Watford, Clapham Junction, Olympia, Stratford, and Euston.
- True enough, although it's Londo... |
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Thread: Managing agent recommendation - anyone know of any good ones?
Post: Managing agent recommendation - anyone know of any...
| Hello,
We are looking to change managing agents for our block of flats in SE22. Does anyone have any recommendations? We'd be really grateful.
Cheers. |
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Thread: Cycle routes from HOP to Oxford Street/West End
Post: RE: Cycle routes from HOP to Oxford Street/West En...
| That's pretty much my route, although beware that Camb N Cem shuts at night.
I use Portland, up the side of Walworth, rather than Walworth itself - which is OK but not great.
And why detour in... |
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Thread: Speed of cars from Honor Oak Park/Forest Hill road - does it bother anyone?
Post: RE: Speed of cars from Honor Oak Park/Forest Hill ...
| There's no effective speed enforcement from the speed camera at the southern end of Peckham Rye Park all the way to the traffic lights where Honor Oak Park joins Stondon Park.
Consequently enraged... |
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21-02-2013, 12:10 PM |
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Thread: Kids on motorbikes on blythe hill fields
Post: RE: Kids on motorbikes on blythe hill fields
| I heard this on BHF at the weekend and then saw one of those miniature bikes with two teenage lads on it careering down Honor Oak Park from One Tree Hill and scorching down the high street bit of Hono... |
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