Thought it was time for a new thread specifically on improvements to Honor Oak Park Station.

Overground management have told us (Forest Hill Society) that the 'Phase 3' works to upgrade Honor Oak Park Station and address the landslip should start later this month and be finished in about 6 months - ie by around March next year.

A big gang of orange jackets and suits were on platform 2 this morning surveying the station. In a quick conversation before my train arrived, I established that the staircases were to be entirely replaced using only the existing ironwork. There will be extensive repairs to the footbridge. The platforms will have works to improve the surface.

When I suggested that repairs to the embankment behind Platform 1 should be finished by June (forgetting that we had been told March) it was suggested that it might take even longer. Apparently the digging work behind the station is a factor. But the landslip is a long term problem. The sheet steel piling was put there during the 1960s.