On Mar 21, 5:32*pm, "Weybridgeman"
wrote:
Is there now a start date for the new service?

AIUI the currently announced "official" start date for ELL service is
the first day of the summer national rail timetable on Sunday 23 May.

However there's going to be a soft launch of the ELL service which
won't run south beyond New Cross Gate - no exact date is known, there
was talk of Sunday 4 April (Easter Sunday), but this gent (seemingly
an LO driver) on the District Dave forum reckons it's been put back a
week to 11 April:
http://districtdave.proboards.com/in...&page=1#229379

Elsewhere on the DD forum I see there's a reference to the unofficial
London Bus Routes website listing the ELW replacement bus as being
discontinued from 4 April - see:
http://www.londonbusroutes.net/changes.htm#121

Whether this would in fact be extended for another week if the ELL did
indeed open on 11 April, or anyone who had been relying on it would
just have to deal with it for a week, I couldn't say.