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‘Spooked’ rail operators extend ticket office consultation
The Government’s scheme to close around 1,000 railway station ticket offices has not quite yet hit the buffers. But it has certainly been sent down a side track, as the Rail Delivery Group this morning announced that they are to … Continue reading
Asking the hard questions about ‘unacceptable’ rail closures
The closure of railway station ticket offices will have an “unacceptable impact on Londoners”, according to a member of the London Assembly today. The Rail Delivery Group, under the cover of a very brief public consultation, is implementing the staff-cutting … Continue reading
Purley station worker will brave the cold as a railway sleeper
Purley Station railway worker Diana-Elena Schiparieff is preparing for a charity sleepout in aid of The Railway Children, an international charity helping homeless youngsters. Schiparieff lives in East Croydon and works at the sales point at Southern’s Purley Station. She … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Purley
Tagged East Croydon station, Purley, Purley Station, Southern, Southern Railway, The Railway Children
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Southern rail worker who has proved to be a real life-saver
This week saw the annual World Suicide Prevention Day. Nathaniel Arthur, from East Croydon, has worked on the railways for three years. He has twice been involved in life-saving episodes, and his prompt action has been recognised with a lifesaver’s … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, Health, Transport
Tagged East Croydon, Govia Thameslink, GTR, Nathaniel Arthur, Southern Railway, World Suicide Prevention Day
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Government is about to let #SouthernFail off the hook again
In what one campaign group has today described to Inside Croydon as “outrageous news”, the Department of Transport is close to handing a six-year rail operator’s renewal contract to Govia Thameslink Railway, who run trains through East Croydon, South Croydon … Continue reading
Southern say they won’t increase rail services before mid-May
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on some disappointing news for communters It could be another eight weeks, at least, before Southern and Thameslink rail services running through East Croydon and Norwood Junction return to anything even resembling a full timetable. … Continue reading
£81.3m fine strengthens case against Southern’s new franchise
The companies behind Southern and Thameslink railways cannot be trusted and should not be given a franchise renewal at the end of March argue campaign groups who helped uncover a massive fares fraud. JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent, reports Rail passenger … Continue reading
Southern offers hope of relief from East Croydon Crush Hour
After nearly three months of misery heaped on inconvenience, long-suffering Southern and Thameslink passengers think they might just be about to spot some light at the end of a very long tunnel of poor service. Southern has this morning issued … Continue reading
Rail works to cut off Purley and East Croydon for rest of month
Rail passengers in south London and the south-east, after having had direct journeys into Victoria closed off during December and January, now face nine days later this month when routes to the south of the Brighton Main Line are shut … Continue reading
Commuters start legal case to re-nationalise Southern Rail
Campaign group Bring Back British Rail has today begun a crowdfunded legal action to challenge the Tory government and take the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail franchise back into public ownership. Southern has acquired a richly deserved reputation as … Continue reading
200 fewer trains per day after Govia’s latest timetable cuts
The rail operators running Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express “services” are providing 200 trains a day less than they were running this time last month. That’s according to a senior official at Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR). All services into Victoria … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Norwood Junction, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Croydon, East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, Southern Railway, Thameslink
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Govia now announces train cancellations ‘until further notice’
Insiders suspect that poor driver recruitment and a desire to avoid fines are behind the latest service cancellations. PLUS: Full details of the Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express cancelled services Commuters, shoppers and tourists wanting to travel into central London … Continue reading
No train services to Victoria Station for 10 days after Christmas
There will be no rail services between East Croydon, Streatham, Clapham Junction and Victoria from Christmas Day until Monday January 3, as major track and signalling work is carried out. After Boxing Day, there will be a (reduced and covid-affected) … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged East Croydon, Network Rail, Southern Railway, TfL, Transport for London, Victoria Station, West Croydon
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#SouthernFail say they’re ‘very sorry’, they just can’t manage
Govia Thameslink Railway say they are “very sorry” for the shoddy service they have been providing all year, but particularly in August, on Southern and Thameslink trains, but they continue to blame the “Pingdemic” for driver shortages and short-notice cancellations. … Continue reading
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
#RailRevolution: activists join forces to protest 3% fare rise
Sick of rising rail fares and chaotic commuting? Tired of the endless tinkering with our broken privatised railway system? On Wednesday, just as rail fares across the country go up by an inflation-busting 3.1 per cent – following 12 months … Continue reading
Southern could have acted to avoid £2 cash machine charges
Southern Rail, possibly the world’s least popular train operators, could have taken steps to ensure that their passengers would not be subject to £2 transaction charges at the cash machines by East Croydon and other stations – but they chose … Continue reading
Rail timetable taking the ‘freedom’ out of Freedom Passes
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Just managing to get to a routine hospital appointment feels ‘like I am planning a military campaign’ for MARGARET LEE, right, under Southern and Thameslink’s new timetable I have just read your article, Freedom Pass users left to … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Coulsdon, East Croydon, Transport
Tagged Coulsdon, East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, Southern Railway, Woodmansterne
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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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May Day! #SouthernFail get in their excuses for new timetable
Promising the biggest overhaul of commuter network timetables for decades, Southern and Thameslink’s boss does not sound too confident, reports transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON Could the end of Croydon rail passengers’ misery be within sight? Passengers on new Thameslink trains … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, Nick Brown, Southern Railway, Thameslink
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#SouthernFail: 94% of Croydon rush hour services are late
JEREMY CLACKSON, our transport correspondent, on a report that confirms the bleedin’ obvious A National Audit Office report has confirmed what Croydon commuters have known for more than three years: they daily endure the worst train performance in the whole … Continue reading
Commuters to get their day in court over #SouthernFail
Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON on the latest twist in the legal battle between the public and the Government The commuter campaign group ABC – the Association of British Commuters – is to get its day in court at the Royal … Continue reading
Tories withhold ‘dynamite’ report on commuter rail crisis
Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON on how the Tories have suppressed a highly critical report on the failures of their government over the commuter chaos on Southern, and why some of the report’s recommendations may already have been implemented Just like … Continue reading
