Enough’s enough. Southeastern’s new rail timetable has left passengers in the lurch for more than two months now. SE London deserves better – and that’s why you should sign our petition, says site editor DARRYL CHAMBERLAIN. It’s hard to overestimate the damage done to lives and businesses in Greenwich, Lewisham and Bexley by Southeastern Metro’s […]
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Mind the gap: Southeastern passengers lose out again as fare rises outstrip TfL’s
Passengers using the slow and infrequent Southeastern services from Woolwich Arsenal in rush hour will be paying 50p per trip more than those using the new Elizabeth Line from March, City Hall documents reveal. Both TfL and National Rail fares will increase by 5.9 per cent on average from March 5. But the rises are […]
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Greenwich councillors’ anger after another Southeastern rail meltdown
Greenwich councillors voiced their anger last night after hundreds of commuters were “kettled” inside London Bridge station following another night of misery for commuters using Southeastern trains. Services were badly disrupted by a trespasser on the tracks at Hither Green station, the latest of a series of incidents that have hit SE London’s commuter rail […]
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Southeastern boss could face new grilling over train service cuts
Updated story: Southeastern’s managing director has been invited back to face residents and Greenwich councillors for a second time, a month after timetable changes which cut train services across the borough. Government funding cuts led to reductions in peak-time trains and fewer services across the board compared with the pre-pandemic service, with rail bosses saying […]
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Southeastern cuts: Complain if your train’s overcrowded, MP says
SE London’s rail passengers should report overcrowded trains directly to Southeastern, a local MP said after government cuts to the timetable were introduced over the weekend. There are now fewer services compared with before the pandemic, with rush-hour trains particularly badly affected, with the rail minister Huw Merriman admitting last week that the cuts were […]
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Tory minister doubles down on Southeastern rail cuts in SE London
Not enough passengers are using Southeastern to justify a return to its old timetables, the rail minister has told SE London MPs days before service cuts hit lines across the area. Labour and Conservative MPs from across Greenwich, Bexley and Lewisham boroughs united to criticise the government cuts at a special debate in Westminster on […]
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Southeastern cuts: We didn’t snub Lewisham to go to Tunbridge Wells, rail bosses say
Southeastern has insisted it did not snub Lewisham councillors by not turning up at a meeting to discuss the company’s rail cuts last night – because its representatives could not make the event in the first place. The company’s managing director and another senior executive sat through a three-hour grilling by councillors in neighbouring Greenwich […]
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Southeastern rail cuts ‘could damage Kidbrooke Village regeneration’
Labour and Conservative councillors have united to warn that government cuts to SE London rail services could harm the new Kidbrooke Village development, where over 5,000 new homes are being built, and called for local trains to be devolved to the mayor instead. There has been a wave of anger at Southeastern’s plans to reduce […]
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