On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:26:11 -0700, aurora wrote:

On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:04:42 +0100, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 2016\07\12 12:39, Roland Perry wrote:
Amused by a banner depicted in the morning paper, held by disgruntled
Southern commuters. Little do they realise that Southern/GTR/DfT *is*
the closest we currently have to the sod-the-passenger British Rail.

If they were at Birkbeck Station I could well understand it! (The new
timetable has no trains at all on the Crystal Palace - Beckenham
Junction line except on Saturdays.)

How simple is the journey with a change?

Change at West Croydon to the tram but you can (not you will) be
quicker going CYP-Sydenham-Penge West-Shanks Pony and/or 194 bus-Penge
East-BKJ.
http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/servic...journey/search
https://tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/
The direct Saturday service has a 30m interval so if you've only just
missed a train the pretty route might still be quicker than waiting.