No buses in Forest Hill Road today

[kiera]

Status alert for route 63

PECKHAM RYE, SE22: ROUTE 63 is cutting short of the normal service route due to emergency Thames Water works. Towards Therapia Road, the last bus stop served will be 'The Gardens' (WQ). Towards Kings Cross Station, the first bus stop served will be 'Peckham Rye / Barry Road' (WE). Please allow extra time for your journey.

[jazzer]

Just seen this, thank you. Probably why the p13 was busier today. 

[malumbu]

Good heavens.  Emergency Thames  water works? How unusual.  Yes I am being ironic.  Hope back to normal soon.

[Spartacus]

Explains the mayhem at the library yesterday as 12s are also terminating early at Peckham rye due to road works in the library area and 40s are terminating at goose green 

[jazzer]

Source TfL

According to the website no further updates and no 63, N63 or 363 running up Peckham Rye or Woodvale onto the Palace.  Seems we've been forgotten about.

Try the P12 to Brenchley Gardens/Forest Hill Rd, or P13 along Underhill Rd 

PECKHAM RYE, SE22: ROUTE 63 is cutting short of the normal service route due to emergency Thames Water works. Towards Therapia Road, the last bus stop served will be 'The Gardens' (WQ). Towards Kings Cross Station, the first bus stop served will be 'Peckham Rye / Barry Road' (WE). Please allow extra time for your journey.

 

PECKHAM RYE, SE22: ROUTES 363 and N63 are on diversion in both directions via Barry Road and Lordship Lane due to emergency Thames Water works. Towards Crystal Palace, bus stops from 'Friern Road' (WP) to 'Underhill Road' (MC) will be missed. Towards Lambeth Road, bus stops from 'Underhill Road / Melford Riad' (MB) to Friern Road (WB) will be missed. Please allow extra time for your journey.

[kiera]

It's not just the buses which are not able to go down Peckham Rye. As the road's closed outside Harris Boys school, no vehicles are able to drive in either direction between Barry Road and Forest Hill Rd. 

There's a constant stream of traffic going straight on past the 'road closed' sign at the crossroads with Dunstan's & Colyton Rds and then doing three-point turns and coming back to the traffic lights again. Frustrated drivers are trying to find a way round, causing congestion/ driving too fast when they can, in the narrow local side streets.

[Penguin68]

Any sign of work going on do you know? It's been three days now and counting and it's hardly the first time that section has been a problem recently. 

[jazzer]

@thameswater

How long are the works on Peckham Rye between the junction with Barry Road and Forest Hill Road going to take to repair? The 63 and 363 are suspended and on diversion, leaving Peckham Rye, Forest Hill Road, Woodvale through to Lordship Land SE22 with no bus service.

 

Just posted the above on Thames Water Twitter, the more that post, the more likely we are to get some answers and hopefully work on the repair. 

[jazzer]

Response from Thames Water, 

Thames Water 

@thameswater

Hi there, this is essential repair work and we expect to be completed by 9th September. Sorry for any trouble this has caused? - Jay

6:43 PM · Sep 6, 2025

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[sunbob]

The road needs resurfacing from the leak going on for 6 days before work started. I don't know if that will automatically be done as part of filling in their hole, or if it will have to be done separately later. 

[jazzer]

According to TfL website no disruptions to either the 63 or 363, yet lunch time today the 363 was still on the Barry Road diversion route. 

Can anyone confirm if the 63 and 363 are back using Forest Hill Road please?

 

[kiera]

Peckham Rye reopened to traffic this afternoon - I saw the 'road closed' sign being removed at about 3 o'clock. I don't know whether the 63 and 363 buses have yet reverted to their normal routes.