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Old February 6th 10, 04:41 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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On 06/02/2010 12:30, MIG wrote:
On 23 Jan, 19:58, Arthur wrote:
On 22/01/2010 02:30, Mizter T wrote:

(And


West Croydon will be - actually, already is - a LondonOverground
managed station, so there's perhaps a bit more likelihood that they'd
ensure it's a pleasant enough place to wait for, say, eight minutes.)


Well, it has gained a coffee shop in the past year or so, and they even
fixed the leaking roof on platform 4.

Ideally they would give up on it and start again with a new station,
this time providing integration with the tram stop and bus station, some
bogs, step-free access, more seats, etc.


As an aside from this, it has often been commented how useless it can
be to clutter announcements with TOC names, but with LO supposedly
managing the stations, this has been doubled up: "Southern Railway on
behalf of London Overground ..." now preceding announcements (probably
useless anyway, to do with personal possessions).


I saw on London Reconnections that West Croydon might get "a suite of
new station signage". Yes, that's what it really needs. The current
signs have been there, what, whole months now?

Maybe it need some more of the posh-looking but useless to the point of
misleading diagramtic maps, some of which at Sutton show the lines going
the wrong way!

And next train indicators. Um, it's got some already.

But will they renumber the platforms, laying to rest the ghost of
Platform 2?
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