But if I was the traian company, I might think it wasn't causing too much disruption to get people to change at London Bridge

Let's look beyond "me, me, me" (or "Forest Hill, Forest Hill, Forest Hill"!) to what works best overall. It's the search for the best overall solution which is driving the proposal to cut the direct service to Charing X, not just Network Rail and Southern just saying "***** it - no point to that service, they can just change".

I feel there are more important things to campaing about on our local lne