Weekend trains from East Dulwich to London Bridge

[missyelliott]

Hello

Does anyone know how long the bus replacement service will carry on at the weekends. I appreciate it's not every weekend but it does seem to be most.

Thanks

[ianr]

The answer will be in here: http://www.southernrailway.com/your-journey/plan-your-journey/improvement-works/. Would someone like to summarise it?

[Jeremy]

The weekend service has been intermittent for the last 12 years, so I can only assume this will always be the case - regardless of progress at LB.

[SidW]

It seems every time I try on a Sunday to get the train, its either the bus replacement or cancelled completely. The last time I got the train successfully for my 15 min journey was December! Understandably, works need to be done over the weekends but surely not most weekends.......

[Sue]

Just looked up trains for tomorrow, and they are running, but only every half hour (18 and 48 past the hour).

I thought they were more frequent than that on Saturdays - have I imagined it?

[Bic Basher]

Sue Wrote:

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> Just looked up trains for tomorrow, and they are

> running, but only every half hour (18 and 48 past

> the hour).

>

> I thought they were more frequent than that on

> Saturdays - have I imagined it?

Trains are normally every 15 mins on Sunday from ED, however the services via Streatham Common are cancelled due to engineering works.

[Sue]

Not only were they only running every half hour on Saturday, but the train times given on the website were wrong.

I turned up in plenty of time to get the 1.18, only to find that the trains were actually at 1.04 and 1.34, and I had just missed the 1.04.

I had to get a bus to the Elephant and then pick up the Northern Line from there. Only just made it to my class in Camden. GRRRRR.

[Earl Aelfheah]

In the last 4 recorded years (between 07/08 and 11/12 ), the number of travellers getting on or off a train at East Dulwich station has increased from 1,360,087 to 2,085,892. It would be good if this exponential growth in traveller numbers could somehow be reflected in the number of trains provided.

[Jeremy]

The number of trains HAS gone up... the train-every-ten-minutes rush hour service we have now is a big improvement to the service we used to have. The evening frequency was also doubled a couple of years ago.

[Earl Aelfheah]

They've returned to the previous frequency after being cut. So the net gain is nought. Anyway, this was in response to the topic of the thread - weekends, when there is rarely any service at all.

[Jeremy]

That's just not true, they are still every 10 mins in morning/evening rush hour and every 15 mins in the evenings.

But yes of course the weekend service is abysmal and we're all sick of the bloody rail replacement bus service. But that's not the same as "the net gain is nought".

[Earl Aelfheah]

My point was, they were every 10 minutes and then they reduced the service. They recently (last year), returned the service to what it had been previously (a few years back), so we're only back where we started from.

[Jeremy]

They are still every 10 minutes. At least they are when I get them (morning and evening commutes). Maybe you're talking about a different time of day to me.