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Central London radial services - stop the cuts

All the stations covered by SRUG - Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill, East Dulwich, Nunhead, Queens Rd Peckham, South Bermondsey - have direct services into central London through the trains going to the central London stations London Bridge, Victoria, and Blackfriars. The trains to these central London stations take only a short time eg from Peckham Rye, between 8 and 16 minutes. So within that time rail users can be on the Tube - one of 6 lines - Victoria, Circle, Distirct, Northern, Bakerloo, and Jubilee. This is the nearest inner SE London can get to being on the Tube. But it depends on having enough trains coming in from the south from various directions to make this possible. These services are being salami sliced year by year and on the way to ruining the virtual Tube service. SRUG is committed to defending these links.

local rail cuts campaign news

Fri, 15/05/2009 - 05:09 — eileen

Here is some more news about the campaign to save our direct rail services into central London.

CONTINUING CUTS
Our latest flyers spell out the significance of the effect, on each of our local stations, of the continuing cuts. For example, from Peckham Rye the services are being cut in HALF:

Last year there were 8 trains an hour from Peckham Rye to London Bridge, now there are 6. In 2012 there will be 4.
Victoria services face new cuts. There are 4 an hour now. In 2012 there will be 2 in the day, and 0 in the evening.

Here in our A5 flyer you can see the effect on each of the Southwark stations.

Save Our South London Line campaign

Sun, 03/05/2009 - 02:20 — eileen

As a result of the shocking news of the secret deal between TfL and DfT to axe the planned Victoria-Bellingham service (via Denmark Hill & Peckham Rye), local rail user groups - Southwark Rail Users’ Group and Clapham Transport Users’ Group - have come together with the major hospitals at Denmark Hill and local elected representatives to form the campaign to Save Our South London Line. The latest decision, like the one to axe the Victoria-Denmark Hill-London Bridge service in 2012, shows the low priority the rail industry gives to our inner south London connections into central London. We have to change that before 2012. First stage is the consultation on the Mayor’s Transport Strategy, and the European elections. Take action now!

The campaign urges rail users to:

sign the web petition http://www.gopetition.com/online/27426.html
email your views to:
- Lord Adonis (the Rail Minister) at: andrew.adonis@dft.gsi.gov.uk
- Boris Johnson at: Mayor@london.gov.uk
- cc to your elected representatives (click on Read More below to see Southwark list)
- cc to the local press: letters@slp.co.uk, letters@southwarknews.org
join the online Facebook group Save the South London Line between Victoria & London Bridge http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=5610272863
print out some campaign flyers to give to fellow passengers at your station
email SRUG@bellenden.net to get on the mailing list to be kept up to date.

'Backroom deal' axes rail service

Sun, 03/05/2009 - 01:07 — eileen

Letters received by rail user groups from DfT show TfL reached a secret deal with DfT to axe the planned service between Victoria & Bellingham. This was to replace part of the Victoria to London Bridge service planned to be axed in 2012. Instead £24m from DfT for Victoria-Bellingham service will go to TfL for the East London Line Extension (ELLX2). SRUG said the backroom deal was "disgraceful. They did this without telling anyone. There has been a continuing reduction in our services and TfL doesn't seem to think [inner] South London matters." Read more...

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