South London Line (SLL) Victoria - London Bridge via Peckham Rye

The South London Line (SLL) is a shuttle service on a U loop from Victoria to London Bridge via Battersea Park, Wandsworth Road, Clapham High St, Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye, Queen's Rd Peckham and South Bermondsey. It is a vital part of the rail infrastructure in Zone 2 in Inner South London. It complements the long distance commuter trains into London Bridge, Victoria and Blackfriars and makes additional links between some of the SLL stations and London Bridge and Victoria. The trains to these central London stations take only a short time and so within short times rail users can be on the Tube - one of 6 lines - Victoria, Circle, District, Northern, Bakerloo, and Jubilee. This acts for users therefore as if it is part of the Tube.

But the rail industry does not see this at all. DfT and Network Rail and the train operating companies are interested only in high revenues from long and longer distance commuter trains, and TfL are interested in only their own overground operated services, i.e. the East London Extension to come in 2012. At that point they all want to cut the SLL and reduce our direct services to central London and in the case of Wandsworth Rd, Clapham High St, Denmark Hill cut the direct link to London Bridge and in the case of South Bermondsey and Queens Rd cut the direct link to Victoria, and for Peckham Rye reduce the number of services to those central London stations. TfL want to substitute instead 4tph to Clapham Junction and Canada Water on the new ELLX. SRUG has joined with others to form the Save the South London Line Campaign. ----- see here for a comparison of TfL’s vision of the future with ours.

campaign to Save our Services to Victoria

Wed, 14/09/2011 - 02:07 — eileen

From SRUG (Southwark Rail Users' Group)

Please join the campaign to Save our Services to Victoria.
EMAIL THE TRANSPORT MINISTER & THE LONDON MAYOR
SRUG is asking rail users of Nunhead, Peckham Rye and Denmark Hill stations to email the Transport Minister, the Mayor of London and their elected representatives to say something like:

The history of the South London Line from 1867

Tue, 19/07/2011 - 00:42 — eileen

Extract from ‘Railways South East’ Winter 1991/2 issue:

Radial rail routes in Greater London have had an almost universal history of development, though that might have been distinctly patchy in some cases. The history of the comparatively few peripheral services has been much more patchy. The so-called 'Middle', 'Outer' and even 'Super-Outer' Circles via Addison Road (now Olympia) have all disappeared, while the North London Line (now North Woolwich-Richmond) after a long period of running down has taken on a new lease of life in recent years. The story of the South London Line between London Bridge and Victoria reveals even more mixed fortunes since it opened throughout in 1867.

Responses to the draft L&SE RUS

Fri, 25/03/2011 - 04:06 — eileen

Here are links to the responses to Network Rail's consultation on their draft 20 year RUS (rail utilisation strategy) for the railways in London and SE England, which are especially relevant to our SRUG interests:

London & SE RUS - SRUG comments

Sun, 20/03/2011 - 03:40 — eileen

SRUG comments on the draft London & South East RUS (Rail Utilisation Strategy) cover several major topics. Read more - click on main heading above. Click here for the full version.

TfL report on options for filling gaps in Victoria services after 2012

Fri, 03/12/2010 - 00:03 — eileen

TfL released their report in June 2010 on how to fill the gaps in Victoria services left by the cut of the SLL in 2012. See the report here . They identified several different options that would create direct links to Victoria for Southwark stations Nunhead, Peckham Rye and Denmark Hill, and Lambeth's Clapham and Wandsworth stations, some less feasible than others. They concluded that Option 7 was the most feasible so that is what they are still investigating with Southeastern Rail. Read more.

Train overcrowding fears as axe on SLL looms

Wed, 08/09/2010 - 00:16 — eileen

from SLP 7 September 2010: When the South London Line is axed in 2012, the overcrowding at Clapham North on the Northern line will be severe. The funding for the Victoria - Bellingham and Bromley new service that was promised in mitigation was taken by TfL for the East London Line Extension to Clapham Junction. This means that Clapham High St and Wandsworth Rd stations will lose all their services direct into central London. Read article...

Anger over rail service cuts

Mon, 02/08/2010 - 00:48 — eileen

Save South London Line campaigners were joined by senior politicians on 28 July at Clapham High Street station. Simon Hughes MP said "The Dept of Transport must know that South Londoners are unanimously behind this campaign." Read more...

"We can win the battle for South London Line"

Mon, 02/08/2010 - 00:42 — eileen

South London Press 27 July 2010 reports the stepping up of the campign to save the South London Line. Read more...

Parliamentary debate on South London Line 14 July 2010

Thu, 29/07/2010 - 22:01 — eileen

Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall, stimulated on 14 July 2010 a parliamentary debate on the future of the South London Line. See here for the transcript

SRUG News June 2010

Wed, 16/06/2010 - 17:37 — eileen

CONTENTS LIST:
* local rail history event
* Peckham Rye Station
* Save the South London Line
* Future SRUG work
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LOCAL RAIL HISTORY
John Harvard Library invites you to an afternoon of slide shows and talk on
British Rail Southern Region during the Blitz
SATURDAY 19th JUNE time 2pm-4pm
venue is John Harvard Library, 211 Borough High St, SE1 1JA
further information from : Eugenia Atta, Library Manager
Eugenia.Atta@southwark.gov.uk , 020 7525 4528

PECKHAM RYE STATION
latest news from the Rye Lane & Station Action Group:

Bellenden Residents' Group (BRG)

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