Having recently moved to the Bexley area, I now use crayford loop to Charlton on a match day.
All fine going to the game, although originally confused me having to use the Dartford bound platform when my instinct was for London bound, but it clicked after a minute.
Anyway, my question, the train out of Charlton only showed it terminating at slade green, not on going towards crayford, for anyone else who uses it, is that usual?
The timetable showed it going to crayford, but not on the station board, I did get off at plumstead with some mates for a pint in the radical club, and when I rejoined at plumstead, that sign did show crayford,
Did the 17:25 & 17:55 genuinely terminating at slade green, or would they have continued onto crayford as a sort of new timetable would have started there?, but if so, why did the same services an hour later at plumstead show it ongoing?
im confused.com, a very long winded question, TIA
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I guess what I’m asking is, if I had got on and stayed on to slade green, it would have carried onto crayford despite it not showing it doing so at Charlton?
The Blackheath section was all engineered out.
I reckon the train in the opposite direction from Lee, advertised as Slade Green but going eventually to Cannon Street would be confusing somewhat if it admitted it’s secret destination, as at the same time you could have a train on the opposite platform advertising Cannon Street as well.
The train journey from Lee direct to Charlton takes about 37 minutes. The 202 bus up to Blackheath, and then the (unreliable) service to Charlton is much quicker, the loopy line is a good backup.
Might be easier to get to Bexley & try this new loopy thing.
Reminds me when we played at Selhurst & I'd just bought my first flat in Dartford. There was a special train that went from Norwood Junction into London Bridge & then straight back out again to Dartford.
I have known trains to not give out certain stations where they are stopping as they dont want passengers boarding the train to disembark there ! Happy once the train is on it's way to detail those stations & there are passengers there when it stops for them to get on......but apparently not to get off.!!
I’m not sure how they decide when to change the description, maybe they wait until it’s roughly half way from London Bridge to Slade Green
Asking station staff is not usually a successful strategy, in my experience they either don’t know about the service, or feign ignorance.
Toot, tooooot!
Yesterday he was going straight out after the game in Sidcup and caught the loopy loop loop train. This despite several offers from me to drop him off. The lure of a train ride on an unusual route was too much for him to turn down. He's proper Charlton.
PS No we don't live in Sidcup.
We have loops here in West London. Some trains leave Waterloo with an announcement that 'This train is for London Waterloo' which is true in that it goes out to Hounslow via Brentford and comes back via Richmond.
Call them a circular service or something.
Once whilst I was waiting for a Greenwich line train on platform 1 at London Bridge the platform displays showed Cannon Street as the destination. This meant Platforms 1, 2 and 3 all showed Cannon Street. Anyone taking the train from platform 1 wanting a short trip across the bridge would have got a shot.
Going it was the 202 to the Standard and a slow painful walk from there.
Trains are unreliable but if you consider parking and attendant fart arseing about, if everything works the looper can get me from my door to my seat in an hour.
The first hour gets us to the Blackwall Tunnel approach, and then we cover the remaining 50 miles in the second hour.
I might start to go via Slade Green.
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