Rail replacement buses

[ianr]

The National Rail Enquiries page for ED says in the Transport Links section:

"Rail replacement - Down from station at existing bus stops on East Dulwich Grove."

Does that mean a single designated stop for each direction, or any of them?

[EMR]

It'll usually be a designated stop outside the station, so that the bus can drive express otherwise. It should say on the bus stop.

[Carrie]

The stop outside the old William Rose shop on East Dulwich Grove is where they stop when travelling away from London Bridge. So I guess the stop nearest the hospital if travelling towards London Bridge rather than the Derwent road stop.

[ianr]

No signs on any of the bus stops, but according to the non-date-specific poster outside the station, the stops used are the William Rose one, opposite the hospital, for Tulse Hill direction, but stop U, the Derwent Grove one, in the other direction. I saw an empty one at Goose Green on its way to Peckham, as far from scheduled time as possible. But I think I'll wait till tomorrow. I was surprised to see that the ED ticket office was open, despite no trains.

[Huggers]

The rail replacement buses were totally uncoordinated in relation to the east london line trains they were meant to be interfacing with.

On returning to Surrey Quays tonight, passengers were given completely mistaken timetable, then waited fifteen minutes in blinding snow, a bus arrived, but it was coming from Clapham not going to Peckham, the guy said it would be another half hour for the other one.

This meant that actually we had just missed one and that the previous bus hadn't waited for the train that was coming in! I got on the bus anyway to stay warm till it returned the other way! At Canada water the bus was not allowed in the bus station as it is not a 'normal' bus and so the replacement bus stop was some way away. when we stopped at this canada water replacement stop there were no passengers..presumably they never found the stop!

We then returned to the stop the bus had picked me up from and then back to Peckham etc. Deposited at Peckham Rye well over an hour after I had alighted at Peckham Rye.

[Bic Basher]

Huggers, it's worth complaining to London Overground at [email protected]

I didn't see ONE rail replacement bus in Peckham yesterday connected to the Overground. To give Southern credit, when they ran the SLL buses, they were regular, visible and easy to find.

[Huggers]

thanks Bic Basher. Done so now.