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You have to go up two flights on stairs at Peckham Rye to reach a platform. There is no lift.


If you see a parent struggling with a pram, or anybody else struggling to carry something up/down the stairs, why not offer to help them? It's pretty amazing that so many people seem to have absolutely no interest in helping others out.

Agree with OP - and that includes station staff: if there are three of you standing around chatting while watching someone struggle up or down the stairs, feel free to pitch in (and yes, I did say make that comment to the staff in question at the time, too).

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Usually I just pretend to be blind.

>

> The downside is that instead it's me who gets

> helped-up the steps - which means uncomfortable

> small talk.


Yes, but this can also facilitate an 'accidental fumble' when you go to link arms...amateur!

I've seen a few people helping carry in Peckham Rye - usually someone jumps in before i can offer.

Its the queues to the gates at peak times which are now bad - sometimes there's only a single gate..


Obviously should be an extra gate for hipsters - a hip one - maybe on the "I Love Peckham" theme. :)

Good on you JohnL, but anecdotal evidence suggests you're in the minority.


When a woman stands at the bottom of the stairs avec buggy and nobody offers to help... and then starts asking passers by who all apprently have dodgy knees/hips... and then starts carrying the bloody thing up the stairs on her own and still nobody steps in... your faith in humanity starts to take yet another nosedive.

I got past buggy days a couple of years ago after two kids but can safely say that Peckham Rye station was the one station where nine times out of ten someone offered to help me. I was really heartened. Victoria on the other hand - rush rush rush so less help offered.

mima08 Wrote:

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> Agree with OP - and that includes station staff:

> if there are three of you standing around chatting

> while watching someone struggle up or down the

> stairs, feel free to pitch in (and yes, I did say

> make that comment to the staff in question at the

> time, too).


I avoid PR station at all costs and will even get a bus to herne hill/ Denmark hill and then a bus home because those stations have lifts.


It wasn't at Peckham Rye but at Herne Hill when the lifts were out that I was told by a member of the station staff they were not allowed to help for 'health and safety reasons'. I imagine it's the same at Peckham.


But sometimes PR station is unavoidable. I have found that mostly it is only when I hoist the pram up a couple of steps myself that someone helps. And I hate to jump on the anti-hipster bandwagon because it's a cliche but sadly they really do exist in a bubble. I don't think they even compute someone needs help. It makes me feel invisible in my neighbourhood.


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It's not just hipster Central Peckham Rye, Lewes is just as bad!


I've even seen people there struggling with suitcases!!!


Joking aside, I always find it shocking when I see people struggling up stairs with buggies on their own...whilst I limp past, headphones blaring & intently rummaging in my bag like my life depended upon it.

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