Sydenham Town Forum

Right now we have the prospect of no Southern services and reduced Overground later this month. Best spend Halloween at home! Really confusing details here: https://www.timeout.com/london/news/south-london-will-be-massively-disrupted-by-train-station-closures-this-halloween-and-half-term-100124 I ...

The original twice an hour service was to Caterham. This now runs fast from East Croydon. One issue with terminating at East Croydon was platform availability (a through train takes only 2 minutes - a terminating train has maybe 10/15 mins which is fixed by the terminating availability at the other ...

I have also used the Elizabeth line and it is very quick and if anyone has not tried it, I would recommend it. I got from Whitechapel in East London to Ealing in West London in around 20 minutes.. that would take almost around 45 mins to an hour on the district line with all the stops it makes. The ...

mikej wrote: ↑1 Jul 2024 06:43 I'm not sure I agree - the Lib Dems have councillors in Beckenham Town and Labour doesn't.

Indeed. The Lib Dems gained votes from disillusioned Tories at the local election in Beckenham Town.

The forecasts show that Beckenham and Penge will go Labour however.

Your question implies we're not already well served.. I'd argue that trains every 10-15 minutes into Victoria, London Bridge/Charing Cross and Canada Water/Highbury & Islington within a walkable distance of the centre of town is pretty enviable... Add back in the (forthcoming?) connection to East ...

Lewisham West should stay safe Labour. So should West Dulwich & Norwood. More interesting is which way the previous Beckenham constituency goes. It's picking up Penge/Cator Park Labour wards and the troubled Conservative MP is not standing. With the predicted swing it could switch. Every vote there ...

Regardless of where you live in SE26, there are changes to who your local MP will be and where they represent after the General Election in July. For the vast majority of residents in SE26, you'll continue to be in the Lewisham West seat, which will now take on East Dulwich and lose Penge and ...

Whoopee. Did she attempt to persuade Southeastern to reinstate the rest of the services via Penge East, too? Every 15 minutes from around 0535 to 1020 and then around 1427 to 2057 on weekdays from June 3rd. Every 30 minutes otherwise. Incidentally Ellie if re-elected will no longer be the MP for ...

Not all of SE26 will be in the new Lewisham West and East Dulwich constituency.

The Southwark side of Sydenham Hill along with Crescent Wood Road will continue to be in Dulwich & West Norwood, while those in the London Borough of Bromley will be in Beckenham & Penge.

The last bank in Penge, Halifax will close on August 10th. Only a few years ago it had Barclays, HSBC and Natwest.

Arriva drivers are striking again tomorrow for 24 hours and then again for 48 hours on Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th May.

It's been an objective of Southeastern to increase the Victoria to Lewisham services to 4 trains per hour, so diverting the current Cannon Street services to Victoria would do that and add new connections to Nunhead, Peckham Rye and Denmark Hill while keeping the ability to change at Lewisham for ...

You may have noticed that there have been no buses on routes 194, 202 and 450 today. This is due to a pay dispute at Arriva buses.

The strike continues tomorrow with a normal service returning on Wednesday.

The footpath and the appeal to save the oak trees on the Dulwich side of the footpath was on BBC London News tonight.

https://youtu.be/GHyNczKsHS0

Only one of the Freeview multiplexes, COM7, which broadcasts HD channels such as QVC HD and Russia Today is in the frequency range which has been allocated to 5G mobiles and that will close in 2022. Considering how close we are to the Crystal Palace transmitter, an indoor aerial in most ...

It's one big soap opera isn't it? I've kept out of the petty politics behind SE23.life and just posted on local issues, yet it would be a shame if the local forum for Forest Hill was closed as SE23.com is simply poor. Maybe the best thing for Chris is to sell up to someone who can operate the ...

Pengites aren't happy with the proposals which would see their Labour majority voters being lumped back into the Tory safe seat of Beckenham. (Same for SE26 voters on the Bromley side of the border). I largely support the Dulwich and Sydenham proposal, yet a shame that Bell Green will be in a seat ...

News report on BBC London.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQpN6Au ... e=youtu.be

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I hope the PO doesn't become like Penge where the PO shares with a mobile phone accessory section, an internet cafe and a section that sells wigs.

I notice the nice new number 12s to Dulwich library are far more frequent though-wonder why that is? The 12s have also seen their share of cuts in recent years, going from every 4 mins to 5 mins but are still more frequent than the 176. Going back to the 176, while it has some reliability issues ...