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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Forest Hillhole creates (more) Southern chaos

Jul

2016

Rham Jas: You'd be surprised what you'll be willing to do, when the Lamia comes for you.- Drag Me To HellA gaping chasm has opened on the site of an ancient Indian burial ground in Forest Hill, spawning travel chaos on Southern and ELL routes. The Evening Standard writes:The hole, reported to be 50ft deep, ...

The great railway journey

May

2016

Southern and Thameslink trains most likely to be hit by staff shortages

Feb

2016

If the worst excuse for late-running train services is 'the wrong kind of sunshine'. The second-worst is to run out of staff - a situation which, pandemics aside, is least likely to be caused by acts of god and most likely to be caused by poor management and planning.So guess which operator has the worst ...

Thameslink, Southeastern and Southern most unpopular trains in Britain

Jan

2016

Greater Brockley's train providers have scored a 1-2-3 in the public vote for the worst train company in Britain. The Evening Standard reports:"Three train firms serving London faced passenger fury today after being named as the worst in Britain despite soaring profits."Thameslink came bottom, with 73 per cent for passenger satisfaction, followed by Southeastern on ...

Crofton Park commuters launch campaign for better trains

Jan

2016

If the recent slew of positive stories about transport infrastructure in South East London have taught us one thing, it's that Crofton Park Station and the Thameslink services that rattle through it are at the top of no-one's to-do list.The Catford Loop line rarely gets mentioned in any talk of upgrades or restructures and the ...

TfL takes control of South East London trains to boost services

Jan

2016

TfL have confirmed that they will assume control of London's suburban rail network, including the services running through South East London to Cannon Street, Charing Cross, Victoria, London Bridge and Waterloo.The Standard reports:The long-running campaign to persuade ministers to devolve powers over services should increase capacity, eventually bringing an end to the cattle truck conditions ...

Lewisham trains delayed by sunlight

Jan

2016

And just because it's always fun to laugh at Southeastern trains, here is a Guardian report that the service through Lewisham was suspended due to the wrong kind of sunlight. The train operator was caught on the hop by a celestial phenomenon which has occurred at the same time every year for millions of years.Rail passengers have ...

Forget everything you thought you knew about Crofton Park Station. History Starts Now

Dec

2015

The Partnership growsThis week, Crofton Park became the first station in the Thameslink network to be adopted a local community group.The Crofton Park Railway Group had already established a garden on spare land at the station and the signing of the Station Partnership formalises the commitment between the two to work together further.The station garden ...

Two more trains to Crofton Park by 2018

Oct

2015

@BrockleyCentral More Crofton Pk trains 2018? pic.twitter.com/67gEpXjva2— BeBazzled (@barryls69) October 16, 2015Getting reliable information about what is actually going to happen to our rail services in the future is needlessly and infuriatingly difficult, so we're reduced to leaping on vague scraps of information given out by customer relations teams on Twitter.In response to huffy Tweets ...

ELL: Two more trains each hour from 2018

Oct

2015

TfL has confirmed plans to introduce two more East London Line trains between Dalston and Crystal Palace from 2018, which would increase the frequency of ELL trains through Brockley at peak time from eight trains per hour to ten. The scheme to deliver a 25% capacity increase on the line has been necessitated by the phenomenal growth ...