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When will the London Bridge disruption finish?
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swt_passenger
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In about 4 years or so? Around about the end of 2018.
Not that long really, it'll come round before you know it, like leap years, the next World Cup or the next Olympics...
Not that long really, it'll come round before you know it, like leap years, the next World Cup or the next Olympics...
A passenger once asked me., late at night 'when will the engineering works on the Brighton Mail Line end?'
My reply, 'this lot, on friday, but really for the whole line. never'
And then added, 'the day they stop, is the day you start to worry'
My reply, 'this lot, on friday, but really for the whole line. never'
And then added, 'the day they stop, is the day you start to worry'
I commute via East Croydon into London Bridge. I usually arrive into LBG between 07:30 and 07:45 in the morning, and depart from LBG between 18:30 and 19:00 in the evening. This is probably not quite the times you will be travelling, however I will offer my observations.
Things seem to have stabilised at LBG following the culling of the West Croydon stoppers and some timetable tweaks. At the times I travel, you can usually get a seat if you are prepared to walk to the country end (which is the end with the main ticket office at East Croydon), and avoid the long-distance trains to/from the south coast. Brighton trains are particularly busy. Avoid Brighton, Bognor Regis, Littlehampton etc trains, and aim for Uckfield, East Grinstead, Horsham or Caterham/Tattenham Corner trains.
Things seem to have stabilised at LBG following the culling of the West Croydon stoppers and some timetable tweaks. At the times I travel, you can usually get a seat if you are prepared to walk to the country end (which is the end with the main ticket office at East Croydon), and avoid the long-distance trains to/from the south coast. Brighton trains are particularly busy. Avoid Brighton, Bognor Regis, Littlehampton etc trains, and aim for Uckfield, East Grinstead, Horsham or Caterham/Tattenham Corner trains.
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CNash
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I happened to be at City Thameslink on the 5th of January, and figured I'd just catch a train to London Bridge from there instead of walking to Cannon Street, my usual station. I asked the gateline staff if trains were still running to London Bridge - his response was "Oh yes - your next train is in about three years! We have a seat for you over here if you'd like to wait..."
Do NOT board Uckfield trains, they are unbelievably overcrowded
EbbwJunction1
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You may think that you've got it bad .... but the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), known unofficially as the "Big Dig" took twenty five years to complete!
Initial planning began in 1982, with ground works starting in 1991. It was scheduled to be completed in 1998, but wasn't finally completed until 2007. When I was there in 1997 (it was already well over due and massively over budget then!), I sw a sign which said:
"Rome wasn't built in a day .... if it had been, we'd have hired their contractors!"
I'm sure that London Bridge won't take that long ... or (having read this topic) am I?
Initial planning began in 1982, with ground works starting in 1991. It was scheduled to be completed in 1998, but wasn't finally completed until 2007. When I was there in 1997 (it was already well over due and massively over budget then!), I sw a sign which said:
"Rome wasn't built in a day .... if it had been, we'd have hired their contractors!"
I'm sure that London Bridge won't take that long ... or (having read this topic) am I?
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