I stopped briefly but wasn't very impressed (or awake). I got some good information from Southern Rail via email:
Extract from my email:
1. You previously responded on the subject of timetables in the station at Forest Hill. As yet, none have been reinstated as you told us would be the case.
2. A number of years ago Southern helped make the station safer by painting yellow lines on the edges of steps on the footbridge and the exit stairs from platform 2. Over time these lines have worn away and could do with being refreshed.
3. Quite a specific issues; The 19:05 train from London Bridge never announces that it will stop at Honor Oak Park but tells passengers that they are approaching Forest Hill (and tells them again when it does get to the real Forest Hill). This is confusing for passengers who are alighting at Honor Oak Park and at Forest Hill. This only appears to be a problem with the 19:05 but is a consistent problem.
1. We will add timetables to the booking hall, just getting them reprinted. They are available on both platforms at the moment.
2. The yellow lines were being repainted on the weekend just gone so that should be complete or about complete.
3. The 1905 is the only train that follows the route ?London Bridge to Epsom Downs? with the stopping pattern it has. When the Passenger Information System database was populated with all the many possible routes, this route has been coded without including Honour Oak Park. So, when the driver genuinely picks the correct route at the start of the journey it misses out Honor Oak Park as it is not included on this particular element of the database. This is an oversight and it is now on the list of changes to be made and uploaded to all trains that run in the South London area. Thanks very much for bringing this to our attention.
Other information glenned:
There are now only 2 trains in the morning peak hours that are 6 carriages long (7:48am and 8:35am). This is apparently due to their Passenger Loading Devices telling them where the most demand is across the whole network.
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