There’s half-term coming up, so get ready for the annual spring shutdown of (parts of) the Croydon Tram network. The shutdown will cut off West Croydon and East Croydon mainline stations from most of the south London transit network.
Rare sighting: from Saturday, there won’t be any trams rattling along George Street for most of the rest of this month
“Essential works” are being cited (they are always “essential”), but this disruption to the town centre tram tracks will take two weeks, rather than the usual week to 10 days.
Transport fro London bosses clearly don’t think that parents and grandparents might want to travel by tram with their kids or grand-kids during the half-term break, because from this Saturday, February 10, until Friday February 23, there will be no service between Reeves Corner and Sandilands via Church Street and West Croydon.
Even the formal TfL announcement of the closure was running late, with notices only going up at tram stops and in the carriages this week.
For the period February 10 to 23, trams will run between the following stops:
- Wimbledon and Reeves Corner
- Sandilands and New Addington
- Sandilands and Beckenham Junction
- Sandilands and Elmers End (except Sundays, Monday to Friday before 06.30am and after 7.30pm, and Saturdays before 8.30am and after 7pm)
“Tram replacement buses will run between Reeves Corner and Sandilands,” TfL says.
“Please check before you travel, leave more time for your journey and where possible consider using alternative rail services, local buses, walking or cycling.” Consider? Passengers have no alternative but alternative services, thanks to this latest closure.
TfL’s Journey Planner and TfL Go app are suggested to help plan tram-less journeys.
“We are sorry for the disruption this may cause,” said TfL’s Navid Golshan.
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