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Barty
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CHECK BEFORE YOU TRAVEL!

Post by Barty »

Yes it's me again, on about trains....

Southern train services will finish earlier than usual on Christmas Eve, some routes as early as 2000.

No trains run Christmas Day.

Sydenham will have a half-hourly service on Boxing Day, trains will run between London Bridge and West Croydon. There is also a half-hourly service between Victoria and West Croydon via Norbury. No other Southern trains will run.

Sat and Sun normal service, engineering works are taking place, check the poster in Sydenham Station, yes there is one there!

Most crucially, for any commuters, a modified Saturday service will run on Monday 29th, Tuesday 30th and Wednesday 31st, and engineering works are taking place in the Clapham Junction area. CHECK BEFORE YOU TRAVEL I don't want any lectures next week after having warned you!!!!! :D

Thursday 1st is a SUNDAY service and Friday 2nd is the same as the 29th/30th/31st - a revised Saturday service with engineering at Clapham Junction.

CHECK, CHECK, CHECK!!!
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Ronski
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Post by Ronski »

thanks for the heads up Barty

These sites are good to check in with as well...

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/

and a live departures board for Sydenham is here...
http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ld ... aspx?T=SYD
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natbeuk
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Post by natbeuk »

Thanks for the tip-off about the 29th-31st Barty! I'm one of the unfortunates who have to work, so I would've been very disappointed if I dragged myself down to the station and found my usual train wasn't running....
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Barty
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Post by Barty »

Excellent links Ronski, National Rail especially - we even use that one at work ourselves sometimes, when we have enquiries from people venturing out of Southern's area.

Telling everyone else to check before they travel and get this.....I haven't even checked my own times to get to work for the 29th, 30th and 1st yet!!!
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Barty
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Post by Barty »

I'm sure someone's gonna appreciate the irony......

My usual train isn't running on those days, and I can't get to work early enough!

I'll be on a bloody 75 bus at silly o'clock in the morning :D
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mysti77
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Post by mysti77 »

Does southern do rail replacement busses to London Bridge for Christmas then? Or is there no alternative?

This is going to be a nightmare as we have guests travelling on public transport to visit us on Christmas day.
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mysti77
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Post by mysti77 »

oh my, all of the transport will be down. there goes our plans!
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Nickerbockers
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Post by Nickerbockers »

natbeuk wrote:Thanks for the tip-off about the 29th-31st Barty! I'm one of the unfortunates who have to work, so I would've been very disappointed if I dragged myself down to the station and found my usual train wasn't running....
Me too - thanks again Barty!

At least we should get seats Natbeuk! :wink:
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natbeuk
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Post by natbeuk »

Nickerbockers wrote:
natbeuk wrote:Thanks for the tip-off about the 29th-31st Barty! I'm one of the unfortunates who have to work, so I would've been very disappointed if I dragged myself down to the station and found my usual train wasn't running....
Me too - thanks again Barty!

At least we should get seats Natbeuk! :wink:
Haha, true!!! Although this morning I got the 7.45 as I was running late, and it was a 2 carriage train... I managed to bag the last seat but it was close :lol:
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Barty
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Post by Barty »

Mysti I think that your guests will be driving or in a cab. I don't believe any buses, tubes or trains are running in the London area (or indeed anywhere) on Christmas Day.

All the local train operators who run through the Southern Trains area (First Capital Connect, South West Trains, Cross Country Trains, South Eastern and First Great Western) suffered yesterday with staff shortages and the resultant train cancellations..

Probably a combination of staff pulling sickies in Xmas week and genuine sickness with the bugs that are going round (I've got it myself, hope it wasn't one of you lot down the pub the other night!!), along with the fact that staffing levels will have been planned to be lower this week anyway.
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marianne
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Post by marianne »

I have to get to Gatwick airport on Boxing Day - apparently I will have to get a train to West Croydon, bus to Coulsdon South and then another bus to Gatwick from there! Estimated time of travel two and a half to three hours :cry:
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natbeuk
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Post by natbeuk »

marianne wrote:I have to get to Gatwick airport on Boxing Day - apparently I will have to get a train to West Croydon, bus to Coulsdon South and then another bus to Gatwick from there! Estimated time of travel two and a half to three hours :cry:
Ouch.... if you can scrape the money together I think I would definitely take the taxi option.
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marianne
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Post by marianne »

Double fares on Boxing day - probably cost more than my flight to Dublin!
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natbeuk
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Post by natbeuk »

marianne wrote:Double fares on Boxing day - probably cost more than my flight to Dublin!
Really?? How are people meant to get anywhere at Xmas in this country??????
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Barty
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Post by Barty »

Its only in the last few years that any sort of public transport serrvice has run anywhere on Boxing Day. When I had my first railway job in Berkshire in the mid 90s nothing ran on Xmas Day, Boxing Day or New Years Day, and a skeleton service ran on the days in between! Finding a bus running in London on Boxing Day was a novelty.
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