Calling all transport geeks and copsers who just love nothing better than swanning around London with each other.  Here are some details about this year’s tour on Sunday 8 March.  It’s turning into a busman’s holiday.  Meeting place and time below.

Devising this year’s tour is proving a challenge.  Running out of new ideas is one thing but when many rail lines are closed for engineering works, that’s another…

So, ticking off the Liberty Line will have to be deferred, again.  Using the DLR is not attractive.  Nipping round the Windrush line is not a goer.  So… numerous bus rides it is.

Fortunately there is one mega piece of new transport infrastructure to visit.  Largely not talked about.  Perhaps because it’s been a success – on time, budget, doing what it is meant to do.  But probably because it’s out of sight being underground and you would not notice it unless you are a regular motorist trying to cross from South East London to North East London.  (Or a cyclist using the free cycle shuttle bus.)  Yes, it’s the Blackwall Tunnel’s new cousin, the Silvertown Tunnel.  We will take the most direct route by public transport (i.e. resisting the inexorable pull of London Bridge rail interchange) to Boord Street footbridge in North Greenwich for a revealing vantage point and then take one of the  exciting new cross river bus services made possible.    And then… the afternoon is a bit up for grabs.  Further ideas welcome.  But we will likely take in Liverpool Street station towards the end to learn a bit more about the controversial redevelopment plans.   And then collapse in a Wetherspoons in the City.

Meeting – East Croydon tramstop 10.15am.  We catch the tram towards Beckenham at 10.27am or thereabouts.   Also possible to meet us at Beckenham Road tramstop (on street) approx. 10.40am where we alight and transfer to ‘Clock House’.   (By coincidence a repeat of last year’s opening tram leg of the tour.)   Ensure you have a suitable ticket / pass / Oyster card for all modes in zones 1 to 5.

Hope to see you.

Andrew

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