At risk of leaving myself open to accusations of a trainspotterish nature, I could barely conceal my joy when I took the East London line home from work last night. The re-opening of the line has knocked over an hour off of my journey time to work and more importantly, I no longer have to commute through Lewisham.
A limited service started yesterday, trains are running running Monday to Friday, 7 am to 8pm from New Cross to Dalston Junction until the 23 of May when the line will open down to West Croydon.
Happy days!
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So clean, air conditioned, lovely.
I got a few puzzled looks when I got off my Cannon St bound train this morning at New Cross by the regulars that sit in the same seats around me lol.
Also from next year, will also make my regular journeys to WHL a damn sight quicker too, when the extension to the Library and Islington is open (one Victoria line stop away from Seven Sisters).
None of that London Bridge scenes from Football Factory shenanigans, just get a kicking at Surrey Quays instead :)
I plan to do the same tomorrow. I work just five minutes from Shoreditch station so it will be interesting to see how much time I save instead of continuing into CS and then walking to work from there.
Won't be yet, because it's only running on weekdays and shuts at 8pm, like the Jubilee Line did when it first opened.
The full service will be up and running by 23 May.
I had a sneaky ride yesterday, it's worth a trip just to gawp at the new view of London from the bridge at Shoreditch - shows how much this city's changed in the past few years.
Now they just need to extend the DLR from Lewisham via Grove Park to Bromley North.
Besides, I like to have a seat in the morning and don't want my DLR to be polluted with Bromley boys. ;-)
The grand plan for the overground is to have a ring linking other lines, will take a lot of congestion off of Zone 1.
*dribbles
yeah hasn't Boris binned that part, as well as the East london river crossing, doesn't stop him taking credit for Kens East London line though I guess.
The ring will be completed in 2012 when you'll be able to go from Surrey Quays-Queens Road Peckham-Peckham Rye-Denmark Hill-Clapham Junction (and from there up to Shepherd's Bush, etc) - the line will run along the footpath from Surrey Quays to the Toolbox.
There's plenty of to-ing and fro-ing about whether or not it'll include a station at Surrey Canal Road. Lewisham Council's offered to pay for it, not the first time Lewisham taxpayers have had to cough up to help the Spanners...
With regards to the surrey canal road station, I did hear a whisper that it would be shut on matchdays. Mainly due to help policing away fans who would have another option to avoid police detection.
Not sure about the pattern on the chairs though!!
Oyster card's readers worked fine for me on the old East London line, must be suffering teething problems.