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Category Archives: East Croydon
It’s Meltdown Monday as Southern’s new train timetable bites
Entirely predictably, Govia Thameslink, the operators in charge of Southern train services, have caused complete chaos with their new timetable, as our transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON reports No one needed to study the works of Nostradamus to predict the train … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged East Croydon, East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, Southern Railway, Thameslink
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Freedom Pass-users left to wait by Southern’s new timetable
JEREMY CLACKSON, our transport correspondent, on the emerging problems of ‘clustering’ of rail services under Southern and Thameslink’s new timetable, which is due to begin – as long as there are no delays – on Sunday At Victoria Station this … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Coulsdon, East Croydon, Thornton Heath, Transport
Tagged Coulsdon Town, Freedom Pass, Govia Thameslink, Southern Railway, Thornton Heath
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£2,000 per year season ticket and Purley service to get worse
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on the discovery of our loyal reader that finds some serious flaws in the new rail timetable to be implemented in a fortnight’s time The devil, as the over-used saying goes, is always in the … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Purley, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, GTR, Purley, Southern Railway
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Timetable promises to get commuter trains back on track
What does the timetable changes later this month do for the rail users of Croydon and Sutton? CHARLES KING takes a look In March, Charles Horton, the chief executive of Govia Thameslink Railway, stated in the Metro newspaper that the … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Transport
Tagged East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, GTR, Norwood Junction, Southern Railways, Thameslink
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Contractors fined £1m after worker fall at East Croydon Station
Contractors working for Network Rail at East Croydon Station have been fined nearly £1million after a painter working for them fell through a ceiling into a passenger waiting room on the platforms. BAM Nuttall and McNealy Brown were fined £900,000 … Continue reading
What a relief! Boxpark traders get helping hand from council
Boxpark, the booze and food outlet in a collection of old shipping containers next to East Croydon Station, has been given yet more help from the council in an attempt to staunch its exodus of tenants. Boxpark’s dwindling number of … Continue reading
Posted in Boxpark, Business, Council Tax, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Business Rates, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman
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Westfield pulls plug on £15m payment for tram network
JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent, on the vanishing millions which Westfield were supposed to provide for improving local infrastructure Westfield and Hammerson have pulled a promised £15million investment in Croydon town centre. The money was to have gone towards the cost … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, East Croydon, TfL, Tramlink, Transport, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Tramlink, East Croydon station, London, London Assembly, Mayor, TfL, Transport for London
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