Bellenden Residents' Group (BRG)

Welcome. SRUG covers routes and stations Peckham Rye, Nunhead, South Bermondsey, Queens Road, Denmark Hill, East Dulwich, North Dulwich. The aims are to learn about the local rail system to make informed comments and secure improvements to stations and services. 

Click to see: SRUG News;  SRUG maps;  about SRUG.

Main current campaigns:

• to Save our Victoria Services. see here
• to improve all services: by integrated planning & management of rail services in our inner south London area; including 7 day regular and frequent services into key central London stations, new interchanges at Clapham, Battersea and Brixton, improving marketing of the services, and planning the Bakerloo Line extension through Southwark. See further information here.

Join the SRUG mailing list to be kept up to date; email: SRUG@southwarkrailusers.net.

Tube Map Variations

There is the tube map as you've grown to know and love it, and there are spins offs - many spins off, that have been collected all in one place by Geofftech.co.uk. Some are useful, some silly, all entertaining. They also show clearly how our part of London is a tube transport desert, and why the overground rail is in practice our substitute tube.

Previous milestones in the South London Line Campaign

• Battle to save SLL lost: The battle to save the SLL was lost as none of the rail bodies would create space at London Bridge for the SLL to terminate there while the station is being rebuilt during 2013-2019. In June 2010 TfL presented their report on how to ‘mitigate’ the loss of services to Victoria as a result of losing the SLL. See the report here . The focus now is to get the gaps in services to Victoria filled (see Victoria Services campaign) and to seek to have the SLL reinstated in 2019. For the archives of the campaign to Save the SLL see below and also here.
• “The South London Line: The Vital Link” : Campaign Group report published 1st Feb 2010
  1 Feb 2010
  The report shows how the key stations in south London will suffer, and how instead of cutting services in south London, TfL and the rail companies could be enhancing services, for just a moderate cost. Click here for a copy.
• South London Line’s centenary - Tuesday 1st December 8am Denmark Hill
  1 Dec 2009
  We had a fun centenary celebration of the electrification of the South London Line. Some of us in Edwardian dress! see photos here    here and here. Read Southwark News and South London Press and SLP here. The historic occasion deserved its ceremonial bottle of bubbly, and we toasted the future continued success of this service to Inner South London. Commemorative biscuits were enjoyed by all. read more about the SLL pioneering electrification
• Mayor's Question time  -   Monday 9th November 7pm - 9pm
  9 Nov 2009
  At Brixton Academy (211 Stockwell Road, London SW9 9SL).  Doors opened at 6pm. The "Save the South London Line" Campaign was there at 5.30pm displaying the new Save the South London Line Tshirts. The Academy was packed and a very lively evening on all topics. The SLL was mentioned several times in questions and comments and there was much loud support from the audience. The Mayor was left in no doubt of the importance of the SLL to south London.
• Public Meeting Wednesday 30th September 2009  in Camberwell
  30 Sep 2009
  This campaign meeting was a historic event; see agenda here. Over 200 rail users turned up. First report on the meeting here. SRUG presented several maps showing why TfL needs to change the way it sees south London rail services; click on these maps to enlarge.

  TfL's Tube map 2012 TfL’s Tube map shows the way TfL sees our rail services - Queens Road, Peckham Rye and Denmark Hill disconnected from central London.

  Tube map 2012 with ELLX & SLL  Our Tube map shows the South London Line on the map and as a key part of the integrated Zones 1 & 2 south London transport infrastructure.

  See also the maps compared or the geographical maps showing the actual routes: close up, full map.

• Val Shawcross & Jenny Jones join campaigners at Denmark Hill on 22 September 2009 for pyama night time protest at loss of Victoria evening services
  22 Sep 2009
  On Tuesday 22 September 2009 Campaigners donned their bedclothes to highlight the loss of evening services to Victoria if the South London Line is scrapped. read more...
• Tessa Jowell & Harriet Harman attend rally at Denmark Hill to fight rail cuts
  26 June 2009
  The official launch of the campaign against South London Trainline rail cuts was marked by a rally at Denmark Hill Friday 26th June 2009.  Read more plus photos and video...