Bellenden Residents' Group (BRG)

Transport Committee's letter to Managing Director of London Rail RTF - September 2009

This letter from Committee Chair Caroline Pidgeon to TfL raises concerns that current plans to increase capacity at London Bridge station do not include extending all the platforms for twelve carriages. It highlights the Committee’s recent report, The Big Squeeze: Rail overcrowding in London, which urged the Department for Transport to fully extend all platforms at London Bridge as part of the Thameslink project.

In June 2009, the Chair of the Transport Committee wrote the Managing Director of London Rail at TfL, to request information about the withdrawal of plans for a Victoria to Bellingham train service from 2012. The Victoria to Bellingham service would have partially replaced the South London Line service, which is being withdrawn in 2012 because of changes at London Bridge for the Thameslink project. Ian Brown, Managing Director of London Rail responded to this letter on 23 June 2009.  Transport Committee's letter to Managing Director of London Rail PDF - June 2009