Southwark Rail Users Group comments on the Utilisation Strategy
14 September 2011 : SRUG PDF Maps showing the changes to overground services to December 2012 and from January 2013.
18 March 2011 : SRUG's comments cover a number of topics, from peak services to a possible Bakerloo line extension. Their website is www.southwarkrailusers.net and you can email them at SRUG(at)southwarkrailusers.net
Trains
In Pictures: Before and After The Christmas Blockade at Frères Noir
Blackfriars closed over Christmas for an extended blockade. This was to allow the through tracks from City Thameslink to London Bridge to be slewed from the west to the east side of Saint Pauls Bridge ,eliminating the conflicting movements between trains going to and coming from the direction of Herne Hill and Elephant and Castle and the spur over Borough Market to London Bridge.
SLP today has an article on a Lewisham Council report on the options for Bakerloo tube extension.
I attach a copy of part of the report, missing Appx B. I have mailed to ask for it.
We will be asking Southwark Council if they can look into this from Southwark's perspective.
Transcript of Item 10: London’s Orbital Rail Network
Read the Southern Stakeholder Briefing
South London Line
Southwark News 4th February 2010
Another battle which is being fought around the regeneration of the London Bridge Quarter is between Southwark Council and Network Rail. No final decision had been made regarding platform arrangements at London Bridge, which currently threatens the South London Line.
The route, which runs on a loop from Victoria to London Bridge, is set to be axed in 2012 under current plans. A number of platform changes will take place at London Bridge in the run up to 2015, which will see more platforms assigned to trains passing through the station and less terminating there.
Cllr Paul Noblet, Southwark Council's Executive Member for Regeneration, told the Southwark News this week: "We will continue to argue the case for the South London Line to terminate at London Bridge, as it does now. With the huge amount of jobs being created it is absurd that for the middle and south of the borough, easy access to it is cut off."
Save the South London Campaign
From Denmark Hill there are 2 trains an hour to London Bridge. In 2012 there will be 0. There are 4 trains an hour to Victoria. In 2012 there will be 2, and 0 in the evening or Sundays.
We have made progress but there is still more to go. Let's have vision and integrate the South London Line, not scrap it. To support the campaign:
http://tinyurl.com/SouthLondonLine
- visit www.southwarkrailusers.net for latest news.
- join the mailing list, email: SRUG(at)southwarkrailusers.net
- email the Rail Minister with your views: andrew.adonis(at)dft.gsi.gov.uk or the Mayor Boris Johnson at: Mayor(at)london.gov.uk
- Sign the Number 10 petition to save the South London Line
- spread the word, download fliers to print: www.southwarkrailusers.net
- Access the Facebook page for the Save the South London Line campaign.
The letter from Val Shawcross to Lord Adonis, Transport Minister, is available for download here. Please also see the letter from Val Shawcross to the Mayor, with the signatories of many local organisations.
Flyers from Kings Hospital supporting the Save the South London line campaign can be downloaded here and here.
The detailed minutes of the SRUG meeting held on 17th November 2008 are now available here. If that is not accessible, try here and click on Minutes of SRUG meeting 17th November 2008.
The minutes are linked to copies of the powerpoint presentations, and diagrams, and important information about the local rail system. You will find all this, with the meeting minutes, and further relevant material available on the new temporary web site for SRUG: www.peckhamvision.org/brg/srug.
We have also been following up various items raised at the meeting. We will shortly be circulating a SRUG News, reporting on those, with some email actions you can take.
If you have any queries or comments please email SRUG(at)bellenden.net.
