No trains again this weekend, 9th/10th July

[ianr]

As last week, no train services from ED this weekend. Additionally, no Victoria London Bridge service on Sunday.

According to http://www.journeycheck.com/southern:

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Track improvements and maintenance are taking place on 09/07/11 between London Bridge and Beckenham Junction.

Whilst work is taking place, buses will replace trains

between London Bridge and Streatham Common via Tulse Hill

between Streatham Common and London Bridge via Tulse Hill

between Crystal Palace and Beckenham Junction

Beckenham Junction and Crystal Palace

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Track improvements and maintenance are taking place on 10/07/11 between London Bridge and East Croydon.

Whilst work is taking place, buses will replace trains

between London Bridge and Streatham

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Track improvements and maintenance are taking place on 10/07/11 between London Bridge and London Victoria.

Whilst work is taking place, buses will replace trains

between London Bridge and London Victoria via Peckham Rye

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The timetabled replacement bus times shown on the National Rail Journey Planner for the ED trains

(I checked for 10:00-12:00 each day) are:

Saturday 9 July

ED to London Bridge: 19 and 49 minutes past the hour

ED to Tulse Hill: 10 and 40 minutes past the hour

Sunday 10 July

ED to London Bridge: 10, 27, 40 and 57 minutes past the hour

ED to Tulse Hill: 05 and 35 minutes past the hour

Peckham Rye departures - as above, with 7 minutes difference

Stated journey time, ED to London Bridge - 25 min.

[Jeremy]

The weekend "service" is a joke.

Sitting for an hour on a bus (the 25 min estimate is ridiculous) which has little hope of arriving on schedule is no substitute for a train service, and they are ripping off travelcard/season ticket holders.

[Berty B]

Does anyone know when these series of works will finish? I need to get into London for work every other Sunday and these improvement works are a right pain in the rear end. The Southern website is as useful as a chocolate teapot

[Jeremy]

I don't know when this particular project will end (it's been 3 consecutive weekends now), but the weekend service has been patchy for years - particularly on Sundays.

I expect you'll have to get used to alternative ways of getting into town - I think trains from Denmark Hill are running, if that's any help.

[ianr]

> I don't know when this particular project will end (it's been 3 consecutive weekends now)

Southern's updated journeycheck page, which currently covers up to 29th July, reports for Sundays 17th and 24th:

"Track improvements and maintenance are taking place on 17/07/11 between London Bridge and Streatham Common.

Whilst work is taking place, buses will replace trains

between London Bridge and Streatham Common via Streatham Hill

between Streatham Common and London Bridge via Streatham Hill"

Enquiries on the National Rail Journey Planner do show replacement buses from ED again on those two days. :(

[Daniel M]

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