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Category Archives: East Croydon
Brighton mainline rail improvements to be axed in Tory cuts
Long-planned improvements to the London to Brighton mainline railway outside Croydon, including rebuilding East Croydon Station and unblocking a bottleneck near Selhurst, could be scrapped as part of government post-covid cut-backs. Network Rail rates the lines around Croydon as the … Continue reading
Council puts hotel and College Green up for sale for just £40m
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Two prime sites, owned by the council, are the latest public assets to be off-loaded on the cheap. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The cash-strapped council’s fire-sale of public assets continues, with the Croydon Park Hotel and College … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, East Croydon, Housing, Jo Negrini, Property, Tony Newman
Tagged Brick by Brick, College Green, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman
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Station mural offers new, welcoming look to East Croydon
A new, large-scale mural is due to be unveiled later today, the latest effort to clean-up the town centre’s somewhat run-down image.
Posted in Art, East Croydon, Transport
Tagged East Croydon, East Croydon station, Joe Rashbrook
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Fire Brigade ‘concerns’ over safety of 44-storey tower
The fire brigade has expressed concerns about the fire safety of the “unusual methods” of construction of the world’s tallest prefab, the black twin towers on George Street opposite East Croydon Station. Inside Croydon revealed in February that delays with … Continue reading
Posted in 101 George Street, East Croydon, Housing, Property
Tagged 101 George Street, East Croydon, Greystar, Ten Degrees
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Weekend rail services into Victoria to be disrupted until June
Tomorrow will see the start of a near-two-year programme of signalling engineering works on the railway lines into Victoria Station which will see services into the London terminus from East Croydon cancelled or diverted on eight weekends through until June. … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, Transport
Tagged East Croydon, East Croydon station, Network Rail, Victoria Station
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GTR train services into London Bridge cut back from Monday
Rail passengers in south London only found out today that they will bear the brunt of service cutbacks, when Govia Thameslink Railway published revised timetables on its website this morning. The timetable changes apply from Monday, and the worst affected … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, TfL, Transport
Tagged East Croydon, Govia Thameslink, GTR, London Bridge, TfL, Transport for London
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George Street’s wind tunnel is causing dangerous problems
CROYDON COMMENTARY: There could be a towering reason for the second closure in a year of the area in front of East Croydon Station because of damage to the building’s glass canopy, according to DAN MAERTENS In some ways, the … Continue reading
Posted in Dan Maertens, East Croydon, Environment, Planning, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged 101 George Street, Croydon Tramlink, Dan Maertens, East Croydon station, George Street, Network Rail
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East Croydon’s canopy repairs see tram services disrupted
Works are to be carried out by Network Rail at East Croydon Station overnight and through Sunday to repair and replace damaged parts of the glass canopy over the pedestrian area on George Street. It is the second time in … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, TfL, Tramlink
Tagged Croydon Tramlink, East Croydon station, Network Rail, TfL, Transport for London
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After 22 years, Thameslink is back on London’s Tube map
After a break of 22 years, London’s Tube map is back on track as far as Thameslink is concerned. Thameslink, which includes services from East Croydon, Norwood Junction, Purley, Sutton and Wimbledon into London Bridge, Blackfriars and St Pancras, will … Continue reading
Railway group launches appeal to sock it to homelessness
Govia Thameslink Railway, the country’s largest rail network which operates services through East Croydon, South Croydon, Selhurst and Norwood Junction stations on Southern and Thameslink routes, will join forces once with a variety of its regional charity partners again this … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, East Croydon, Norwood Junction, Transport
Tagged East Croydon, Govia Thameslink, GTR, Norwood Junction, Southern Railways, Thameslink
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Sutton Cancer Hub and south of Croydon to get new bus routes
With no prospect of the long-requested tram extension to the Royal Marsden Hospital, TfL is consulting on new and re-routed bus services around Belmont, Sutton, Purley, Addiscombe and Waddon, as our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, reports Croydon and Sutton are … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Purley, Sutton Council, TfL, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Addiscombe, Belmont, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Tramlink, Kenley, London, Purley, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, TfL, Transport for London, Waddon
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It’s ok not to be ok: East Croydon station gets the message
Commuters using East Croydon station this morning will have seen their route to the platforms made more colourful by a series of artful messages, installed by Govia Thameslink Railway across some of its busiest transport hubs today – Suicide Prevention … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Transport
Tagged East Croydon, Govia Thameslink, GTR, Suicide Prevention Day
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Selhurst homes and businesses face demolition for rail scheme
Thirty-three homes in Selhurst and business premises on a light industrial estate all face demolition, under plans from Network Rail to provide a long-term solution to congestion on the London-to-Brighton mainline. Network Rail’s Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme – or CARS … Continue reading
Pub gardeners’ question time: Builders has others in the shade
Just where is the best beer garden to go in post-lockdown Croydon for a socially distanced, covid-safe drink with old mates? KEN TOWL, pictured right in his best new normal going-out gear, needed no second invitation to try a few … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, East Croydon, Ken Towl, Pubs
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Ken Towl, pubs
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Train operators offer advice for travelling in the ‘new normal’
During this coronavirus pandemic, not everyone works in No10 and can just drive to Barnard Castle when they fancy a day out. But as lockdown measures are eased, and there’s a gradual return to work for some, railway operators … Continue reading
Let’s build new tram lines with routes where people want to go
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The ‘Fantasy Tram Network’ map, showing the various undeveloped extensions and new destinations which have been spurned over the past 20 years, underlines the desperate need for better public transport in south London, says STEPHEN SPARK Thanks for … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Sutton Link, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
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East to go North – Network Rail wants to move a whole station
Network Rail want to make the earth move for commuters. Or, at least, they want to move East Croydon Station. The railway infrastructure body this week released the latest version of its plans for what they call the Croydon Area … Continue reading
East Croydon expansion plans are to go online from Monday
The latest stage of Network Rail’s consultation over the expansion of East Croydon Station, improvements at Norwood Junction, the rebuilding of Windmill Bridge and the unblocking of the railway bottleneck at the Selhurst junction, will be launched online on Monday. … Continue reading
Putting Mr Blobby in charge is Newman’s latest blunder
TOWN HALL SKETCH: If a council’s planning deliberations have to be seen and heard to meet the requirements for democracy laid down by law, then Croydon could be in a spot of trouble, writes WALTER CRONXITE Well, that was a … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Chris Clark, College Green, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Fairfield, Fairfield Homes, Housing, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Toni Letts
Tagged Brick by Brick, Chris Clark, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Fairfield Homes, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Toni Letts, Tory
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Planning officials warn of coronavirus risks of co-living towers
A south London council has raised the alarm about the deadly health risks inherent from high-density tower blocks offering “co-living” accommodation, in light of the coronavirus pandemic and the need for social distancing. The concerns aired in Wandsworth over a … Continue reading
Tram ticket inspector is 29th London transport worker to die
A ticket inspector on Croydon’s trams is the 29th transport worker in London to die from coronavirus, according to reports from the BBC this morning. The man, believed to be in his late 50s, is as yet unnamed. “Sadly, a … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, TfL, Tramlink, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon Tramlink, TfL, Transport for London
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£120m Brick by Brick scheme to get ‘virtual’ planning meeting
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on how Croydon Council is using the pandemic lockdown to lock out the public from the planning process Council leader Tony Newman has ignored calls from residents’ groups, his own Labour councillors and a local MP … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Heather Cheesbrough, Housing, Jacqueline Harris-Baker, Muhammad Ali, Paul Scott, Planning, Toni Letts, Tony Newman
Tagged Brick by Brick, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Heather Cheesbrough, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Toni Letts
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All aboard! Thameslink repaints trains in support of NHS
Govia Thameslink has today announced that they have re-painted three of their trains to reflect the public support for the NHS and key-workers. Of course, in this time of covid-19 emergency, transport workers are key workers, too – the rising … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, TfL, Transport
Tagged East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, GTR, Southern Rail, Thameslink
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Govia Thameslink expand apprentice scheme to plug skills gap
Ramla Abshir-Slevin will have had easier days at the office since starting as East Croydon Station’s apprentice station manager last month. Yesterday, the 32-year-old and her colleagues had to cope with having the station, one of the busiest in south-east … Continue reading
