Closure of London Bridge, Waterloo East, Charing Cross and Cannon Street on some Sundays and over the Easter weekend plus other Sunday closures will mean no services on the Greenwich Line and diversions on other lines on a regular basis including the whole of Easter weekend. More information is given on our engineering works page.
We will try to keep our page summarising engineering works up to date but cannot guarantee this so our advice is to check the Southeastern website before you travel, especially at weekends, as there will be additional changes to services due to additional engineering works.
General information about the changes to rail services on the Greenwich Line that commenced in January can be found on our Rail page
The Greenwich Line Users Group are in communication with rail providers to try and improve services. Please let them and us know how new system is working so far plus your tips for alternative routes. Send your views to environment@westcombesociety.org and to greenwichline@outlook.com or add a comment at the bottom of this post.
With regard to train services the loss of direct Charing Cross services from Greenwich Line stations is permanent and, in addition, it will not be possible to change at London Bridge onto a Charing Cross train until 2018. From now until August 2016 Cannon Street trains will stop at London Bridge but Charing Cross services will not. In August 2016 this will reverse and Cannon Street trains will not stop at London Bridge until 2018 meaning that Greenwich line services will be fast from Deptford to Cannon Street from August 2016 until sometime in 2018.
Read about the changes, both good and bad, and find out about alternative routes and ticket acceptance on other services on our updated Rail page here and on our engineering works page.
As I understand it, trains from Westcombe Park, Maze Hill etc will go from Deptford straight to Cannon St. They will never again stop at London Bridge. The service into central London from this area will be worse than it was 100 years ago. We must all somehow try to stop this happening – easier said than done.
As you will see from our pages the Greenwich Line services will continue to stop at London Bridge except for the period from August 2016 to 2018 while the final rebuilding happens at London Bridge station. From now until August 2016 Greenwich Line trains will continue to stop at London Bridge though it will not be possible to change onto a Charing Cross train at London Bridge until the work is finished in 2018.
There are almost daily alerts from South Eastern trains about cancelled, late or ‘fewer carriages’ trains on the Westcombe Park to & from Cannon Street line, both morning and evening. I have now had to divert my commute to a longer journey via the DLR as couldn’t be sure of arriving at work on time.
Are these problems connected to the Greenwich line work? Blackheath station has far fewer alerts and seems to be running better. Are any of our elected representatives dealing with this issue?
Hello Sam,
We are in regular contact with the Greenwich Line Users Group GLUG who are in regular contact with Councillors, our local MP and representatives from South Eastern and others. Their email address is greenwichline@outlook.com and their website is http://greenwichline.org.uk/, it would be helpful if you could forward your comments to them to take forward. It is clear that there are problems on the Greenwich Line especially with the number of weekend closures, members of GLUG may be able to answer your question as to why there are so many problems on the Westcombe Park to Cannon Street line.