On Jun 10, 12:06*am, wrote:

On Jun 9, 9:45*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:39:38 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
"London Overground and Southern services will not call at Wembley
Central or North Wembley stations on Wednesday 10 June from
approximately 18:00. A normal service is expected to run at all other
times."

Surely it is to do with the England match at Wembley and the obvious
decision that there will be *no* rail based access to Wembley? All the
stations in the area are shut or else trains will not stop - Chiltern
included.

Possibly, I didn't think of that.

That's what's happening, yes.


If one station was known to be open it would be swamped to dangerous
levels so perverse as it seems it is better to have them all closed and
thus the risk of crush conditions in stations disappears.

But isn't S********** P*** nearly as close as North Wembley, with S***
K***** not much further either? I know most fans might not realise
this, but there will be a few who will be able to work it out.

They're one step ahead of you - S********** P*** is now also going to
be closed as well, though S*** K***** appears to have survived the
cull - and there's H******** station to the south as well of course.

Those who are keen can work these things out, of course - mapping
websites such as http://www.streetmap.co.uk and http://
www.walkit.com/ being useful especially for those without an A-Z to
hand (plus walkit.com is good for the time estimate anyway).

The additional closure of S********** P*** is according to the NRE
strike disruptions page he
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/servic...e/details.html

Meanwhile TfL's own "Current Overground network status" page (which is
part of their "Live travel news" section) is as naff as ever - it only
mentions that Blackhorse Road is shut (as it's LUL managed), which is
the same message as yesterday evening. Meanwhile NRE page seems more
up to date as it currently states "Blackhorse Road station is
currently open for London Overground services, but may be closed at
short notice."

The fact there's no mention of the forthcoming closure of the three
stations in the vicinity of Wembley this evening on the TfL page is
really rather shabby - I kinda expected TfL to do a better job of
this.

I've just remembered the place to go for up to date LO information is
of course JourneyCheck - TfL/LO don't advertise the existence of it
publicly anywhere these days, though just after they took over the ex-
Silverlink routes a link to id did appear on the TfL website for a
short while - so I dare say it's aimed rather more at their own staff.
Anyway, one can get to it he
http://www.jcheck.com/londonoverground