Southwark Rail Users Group News
Welcome. SRUG covers routes and stations serving Peckham Rye, Nunhead, South Bermondsey, Queens Road, Denmark Hill, East Dulwich, North Dulwich. See diagram. News items in date order below. See right hand column for topics.
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Campaign petition
Tue, 09/06/2009 - 01:08 — eileenThe paper petition can be printed from here
We need as many signatures as possible. So please print out some and carry them with you to collect signatures from other rail users you meet on your travels. The address to return them is on the petition.
Death by 1,000 cuts letter to South London Press
Sat, 06/06/2009 - 01:30 — eileenLetter to
South London Press from Mike Colvin http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/tn/Letters.cfm?id=21717&headline=Death
Death by 1,000 cuts Monday, 01 June 2009
Rod Brown (Letters, May 22) acknowledges that South London is not well served by the Tube.
But he then seems surprised that residents who are thus forced to rely upon infrequent overground rail for their travel, wish to hang on to the limited services that they have.
He then perversely tries to argue that they would be better off if even more of their rail services were scrapped.
What planet is he on?
Read more'Modern Railways' on the Victoria-Bellingham cut
Thu, 04/06/2009 - 22:43 — eileen"London Bridge - Victoria cut proposal" is a front cover headline on June 2009 Modern Railways magazine. see here: http://www.modern-railways.com/news/issues/latestissue.html
"Watchdog condemns South London service cut" is the article. Read article here
Here is a letter to the magazine in response:
From: John Stewart [mailto:jdm.stewart@virgin.net]
Sent: 04 June 2009 16:50
To: 'modern.railways@googlemail.com'
Subject: Letter for Publication
London Assembly Transport Committee letter to Ian Brown, London Rail
Wed, 03/06/2009 - 02:30 — eileenThe Chair of the London Assembly Transport Committee wrote, 1 june 2009, to Ian Brown, Managing Director of London Rail at TfL, to request information about the withdrawal of plans for a Victoria to Bellingham train service from 2012. Extract:
"... The Committee would appreciate clarification of how information about the withdrawal of the service has been made available. It would be useful if you could provide details of meetings with stakeholders where the issue was discussed, copies of letters to stakeholders and any other material made available to interested parties..."
"... Members of the Transport Committee have expressed cross-party support for the extension to the East London Line. I believe public support for the scheme would be best maintained by the publication of the detail behind your decision that it was a better use of DfT funding than the anticipated Victoria to Bellingham service..."
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Boris recognises need for infrastructure investment
Sat, 23/05/2009 - 12:42 — eileenhttp://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=78587
22nd May 2009
Months after scrapping £3.7bn of planned major transport schemes, London mayor, Boris Johnson, has said that ‘without additional infrastructure, London’s economic success could be threatened’.
Read moreDon't axe trains - letter to South London Press
Fri, 22/05/2009 - 20:27 — eileenhttp://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/tn/Letters.cfm?id=18696&headline=Don't
From South london Press Letters Monday, 11 May 2009
Don't axe trains
To transport minister Andrew Adonis, South London MPs and London Mayor Boris Johnson:
I have discovered that there has been a secret deal between Transport for London and the Department for Transport to axe the planned Victoria-Bellingham rail service (via Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye stations).
As someone affected (“‘Backroom deal’ axes rail service”, South London Press, April 28), I urge you most strongly to rescind it and prevent any axeing of the service.
Read moreScrapping SLL to fund ELL
Fri, 22/05/2009 - 00:00 — eileenIn Readers Column in the South London Press, Nick Biskinis, from Clapham Transport Users' Group, says transport stratgey continually leaves inner south London short-changed. He says it was never proposed that the ELL would replace the SLL, and if it had no one would have supported it.
local rail cuts campaign news
Fri, 15/05/2009 - 05:09 — eileenHere 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.
Read moreSave Our South London Line campaign
Sun, 03/05/2009 - 02:20 — eileenAs 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 — eileenLetters 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...
