Sydenham Town Forum

Oh dear. It's Friday. (Or technically Saturday morning)

My *September* bank statement arrived yesterday. The October one is probably about due.

Good luck with that. I started complaining to Southeastern about the loss of half the Bromley South to Victoria slow service nearly 18 months ago. There's still no sign of it returning.

Don't know how I managed to miss that post last month

And I believe we have 19 more strikes scheduled before Christmas? Unbelievable.

I don't know whether someone was reading my earlier post, but we got 2 deliveries on Wednesday! Nothing since then.

Are you sure the posties you've seen haven't just been delivering parcels, rather than post?

No mail received this month at all. The Royal Mail website isn't indicating that there's any problem with the Sydenham/Forest Hill area

Greenwich line goes through Deptford, doesn't it? I have a friend there who's been having to change at London Bridge for all her trains for years now. So I'm surprised there's anything new there.

So, is there now no direct way of getting from the lower half of the Hayes line to St. John's and New Cross? That would be a pain for anyone wanting to transfer onto the Overground, for example. I'm surprised there's spare platform capacity at Charing Cross, to be honest. And I see there's still no ...

By "old bank" you mean what until recently was Lloyds?

I notice that following the death of the Queen St. John's Penge has scheduled an additional service of prayer and reflection tomorrow at 10.30. I imagine that other local churches will similarly be offering additional services, drop-in times for reflection and so on for those who wish to make use of...

Sorry to miss this one, but it seems there will be other sessions in the following weeks?

Thanks for the information, squashst (what an appropriate name in the circumstances!). I don't know when they truncated the service to East Croydon anyway (was it during the pandemic?), because it used to run farther beyond that (I never could keep track of whether it was the Caterham train, the Sut...

I quite agree. Even if the interchanges are all on the same platform (and I bet that won't always be the case if there are disruptions), as you say it's just another change to be made to get to the East Croydon hub. If you go to West Croydon, it's then an additional fare to get back to East Croydon ...

Really? Does anyone know anything about this? https://www.pengematters.org.uk/Save-Our-Trains Seems they're going to reinstate the London Bridge-Crystal Palace-Victoria loop, but nothing down to East Croydon? What will happen on Sundays? Will the loop run then, for the first time, or do we lose all ...

Very loud "rumbling" sort of noises coming from what sounds like the Sydenham-Crystal Palace line - clearly penetrating through the double glazing. Does anyone know if engineering work is being carried out tonight? I hope it's not the follow-up tamping work on the Penge tunnel works, becau...

Well, I'll consider moving to Community Fibre if they ever beat my current plan. *And* provided I can keep a non-broadband landline. Remember what happened in the terrible storms in Scotland earlier this year, when people were unable even to call for emergency help because their phones were broadban...

Quite agree on all counts. And last year, after I complained by email to all the relevant councillors about the noise and disruption from the festivals in Crystal Palace, and cc'd her in, who did I get a response from? Ellie Reeves. Not from any of the councillors whose wards were directly affected.

Thanks for the warning - anything's better than hopping on a train to Kent House only to find you go non-stop to Beckenham Junction :( I know the works have been affected by two days of rail strikes, but generally I'm unimpressed by the way Network Rail has handled all this. And what do they mean ab...

Sounds interesting.