Matt Wheeler wrote:
"Tony Wilson" a@a wrote in message
...

I travel from the East London Line to Sidcup occasionally visiting
family
and was planning to do so this evening, but was really quite amazed
to find
that New Cross has no trains running out of London for 1 hour 20mins
in the
early evening of Saturday, not even on another line from which we
could
change for Sidcup. This is really a quite staggeringly poor service
for a
station in London, especially about the only place where you can
change from
SE Trains onto the Underground without going into central London.

It is all the more amazing that there is a gap of 1hr20 given that
Overground Network maps state that New Cross has 6 trains per hour.
I know
this is intended to be a daytime frequency, but 6.30 on a Saturday
evening
is not late night.

I don't really have a question, just had to get that off my chest
somewhere!



I've just done a search on the National Rail journey planner for next
saturday (12 Feb), and there are quite a few trains between 18:00 and
19:00 alone.
When is this 1h20 gap you speak of ?
Most do appear to be Southern services from London Bridge, rather than
South Eastern.



Southern trains don't run to New Cross - they only go to New Cross Gate
(different station although it's close by).

However, I've just done a search on trains from New Cross to Lewisham (2
stations down the line and you should be able to easily switch to a
Sidcup service and there are 4 trains at least between 6pm and 7pm - at
6.02, 6.11, 6,20 and 6.50. After the 6.50 one, they change to roughly a
train every 30 minutes or so.