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Getting to the Valley from Eltham
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He must have me on mute…AFKABartram said:InspectorSands said:Depending on how your knees are, get the 286 bus to Kirkside Road (halfway down Westcombe Hill) walk through the subway, left down Eastcombe Avenue, across into Fossdene Road and left into Inverine/Delafield Road will bring you out at the Valley Cafe.Most people don’t realise that if you pay your £1.75 for a bus, you don’t pay anything for any subsequent buses you take in the next hour4 -
Ah, see it was kind of ringing a bell. Sorry! Then again I’m sure I’d explained Puskas Academy to CL at least twice🤣😉AFKABartram said:
He must have me on mute…AFKABartram said:InspectorSands said:Depending on how your knees are, get the 286 bus to Kirkside Road (halfway down Westcombe Hill) walk through the subway, left down Eastcombe Avenue, across into Fossdene Road and left into Inverine/Delafield Road will bring you out at the Valley Cafe.Most people don’t realise that if you pay your £1.75 for a bus, you don’t pay anything for any subsequent buses you take in the next hour0 -
I think you mean after you first tap in on a bus and are charged £1.75, the first hour is free of further charge regardless of any number of buses you may then use in that first hour.guinnessaddick said:
After you first tap in on a bus, the first hour is free regardless of the number of buses you use, also think the maximum bus fare for the day is £5.25.PragueAddick said:
Do you or others find this Tfl app better than the Bus Times app I now have , which my sister uses?Crusty54 said:
The TfL Go app gives you next bus information from stops near where you are standing.PragueAddick said:
Well of course I can, in principle. However I can't see why that's quicker and better than sitting on a mostly quiet train.guinnessaddick said:What about the B16, it goes up Westmount rd towards Eltham high street, where you can pick up a 161?
And by the way I do use, or try to use the B16 when I'm there, to get to the High Street. I've found the timetable to be distinctly aspirational and often end up walking. But that's my trouble, I'm spoilt here. To get to a Champions League game at Sparta I choose whether to walk 10 mins up the road from my house, then take the tram 8 stops to outside the ground, or the metro three stops and a five minute walk, and afterwards a choice of top pubs to have a beer in on the way back.( But then again Sparta is a shit ground to watch football and given its 10k smaller than the Valley, there's no way I'll get a ticket.)Speaking of TfL, I have another general question: I’m paying everything by contactless but on my bank statement all I see is TfL and the amount. I am having trouble identifying what each is for. I have one for £13.30 which I assume is Heathrow- Abbey Wood. I see one more for £1.75 which I suppose is for the bus from Rochester way to Eltham High street. But I dont see a charge for the return journey less than an hour later, is that actually correct ? Then yesterday I went by train Eltham-London Bridge and back, so far nothing charged, any idea what it should be?1 -
Register the bank card on TFL contactless and you will see a journey and payment history.PragueAddick said:
Do you or others find this Tfl app better than the Bus Times app I now have , which my sister uses?Crusty54 said:
The TfL Go app gives you next bus information from stops near where you are standing.PragueAddick said:
Well of course I can, in principle. However I can't see why that's quicker and better than sitting on a mostly quiet train.guinnessaddick said:What about the B16, it goes up Westmount rd towards Eltham high street, where you can pick up a 161?
And by the way I do use, or try to use the B16 when I'm there, to get to the High Street. I've found the timetable to be distinctly aspirational and often end up walking. But that's my trouble, I'm spoilt here. To get to a Champions League game at Sparta I choose whether to walk 10 mins up the road from my house, then take the tram 8 stops to outside the ground, or the metro three stops and a five minute walk, and afterwards a choice of top pubs to have a beer in on the way back.( But then again Sparta is a shit ground to watch football and given its 10k smaller than the Valley, there's no way I'll get a ticket.)Speaking of TfL, I have another general question: I’m paying everything by contactless but on my bank statement all I see is TfL and the amount. I am having trouble identifying what each is for. I have one for £13.30 which I assume is Heathrow- Abbey Wood. I see one more for £1.75 which I suppose is for the bus from Rochester way to Eltham High street. But I dont see a charge for the return journey less than an hour later, is that actually correct ? Then yesterday I went by train Eltham-London Bridge and back, so far nothing charged, any idea what it should be?Only issue is that the site may be down currently due to the recent cyber attack.0 -
I can't find it now but thinking about it, it must of been at Puskas Academys ground. I did see that in March the same fixture at Ferancvaros only had around 7k , which is low considering the capacity is 22-23k. Thanks for the extra info, since getting back i've ben doing some reading about Orban. Not a pleasant character..PragueAddick said:
A kind Lifer lent us his car park space, for which we were very grateful. But next day my sister got me to download the Bus Times app, and it is very cool, would give me a lot more confidence to rely on buses.Kindoncasella said:Well how did it go ? Cab/bus train?
On a separate note @PragueAddick , I was on Budapest for a city break last week and went past Ferancvaros stadium, looked up their attendances and noticed the highest was around 20k and the lowest was 800 which was against Puskas academy. Any ideas on why that one had a low attendance?Right, to your question. The thing is, are you sure that the Puskas Academy game was at home? If away, it is fairly understandable. PA is the team from Orban’s home village. Quite absurdly he has used taxpayer money to plunge into that village club. He built a new stadium with a ridiculously grand main stand. Every home game that stand is full of his cronies and biz people wanting to be his crony. But the village has only 1.5k inhabs so even though his money took the club up 4 leagues to finish 3rd in NB1 and qualify for the Europe Conference, inevitably they often get less than 1k. Its insane. But surprising if they couldn’t get more against Ferencvaros. And if it really was the home game for Ferencvaros, thats very interesting. It may imply that the Ferencvaros fans boycotted it. I never heard of such a boycott, but its possible. Budapest is the one place where the porky dictator doesnt get his own way.0 -
The TfL Go app is more useful although there there are some problems at the moment following a cyber attack on TfL. Unfortunately there are also some buses that are not correctly entered on the system.PragueAddick said:
Do you or others find this Tfl app better than the Bus Times app I now have , which my sister uses?Crusty54 said:The TfL Go app gives you next bus information from stops near where you are standing.0
