37 bus - Clapham Junction

[Fi85]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me approximately how long the 37 bus takes from East Duwlich Road to Clapham Junction (not in rush hour)?

Or is there an easier way to get to Clapham Junction from ED?

Thank you

[SeanMacGabhann]

Denmark Hill gets you to Clapham High St in about 7 minutes - so you could add in travel to and from those stations

I would get the 37 tho - allow about 35 mins

[Snoopy]

Denmark Hill to Wandsworth road (about 7 mins) and then get the bus just a couple of minutes to CJ. Definitely the quickest route.

[EDOldie]

You'd have to ask the man on the Clapham omnibus. Which was me a few weeks ago, and it took about 25 mins, very quick I thought.

[Sue]

Yeh much easier just to get on the 37 in ED and get off in CJ rather than messing about with trains, unless you happen to live near Denmark Hill Station and know all the train times.

And yeh, around half an hour depending on traffic, roadworks etc..

[Fi85]

Thanks, the 37 it is then!

[HonaloochieB]

Don't you trust the timetables?

[Luisa]

37 is really dodgy for timetables, or was - a few weeks ago I was travelling on it a lot and was waiting for about 25min and 3 would turn up consecutively. Seemed very strange and thought the drivers were up to something as was happening all the time....not sure what though!

[ianr]

Luisa Wrote:

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> 37 is really dodgy for timetables, or was - a few

> weeks ago I was travelling on it a lot and was

> waiting for about 25min and 3 would turn up

> consecutively. Seemed very strange and thought the

> drivers were up to something as was happening all

> the time....not sure what though!

You've heard the anecdote, now read the book! http://www.robeastaway.com/book_buses.html

[HonaloochieB]

Luisa Wrote:

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> 37 is really dodgy for timetables, or was - a few

> weeks ago I was travelling on it a lot and was

> waiting for about 25min and 3 would turn up

> consecutively. Seemed very strange and thought the

> drivers were up to something as was happening all

> the time....not sure what though!

I can help you out here, the three drivers in question were forming a Thin Lizzy tribute group and were rehearsing over their radios. That's the original three piece Lizzy of course. Purists these lads are.

TFL Lizzy they're styling themselves.

[neecheecat]

The 37 is quite temperamental in my experience, especially evenings and weekends - I had to wait almost 30 mins for one yesterday afternoon and once spent almost an hour waiting for one in Brixton on a Friday evening... then 3 came at once.

[pilsbury]

my o/h actually discovered a sneaky new way to CJ - check it out on the nationalrail.co.ku site, but basically you get the train from ED to either streatham common or tulse hill, then change platforms and get a train back towards central london and jump off at CJ. Takes 32 mins or sthg v similar and although it costs ?1 more than the bus it is ten times more reliable!

[Sue]

Hmm, have sometimes spent what seemed like hours changing trains at those stations.

Advise you to treble check connections first - and check you can return home the same way at the particular time you want to do it.

[ianr]

If you're using the Wandsworth Road route, OTOH, don't rely on the NatRail site. It allows too much leeway to change trains at Peckham Rye, when the train in fact leaves from the adjoining platform. You can get the 14 or 44 from ED and be on the 20 or 50 to Wandsworth Road (via Denmark Hill, as above) if the trains are on schedule. Similarly for the return journey; though then there's usually just one minute for the change if both trains are on time.