"Solar Penguin" wrote in message
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I live near Crystal Palace, but I'm not happy about the extension. For a
start, we've already got good NR services to Croydon. (Well, evening and
Sunday services could be better, but the best way to fix that is by
running
more trains in evenings and Sundays -- not by building a whole new tram
line!)

As for services to Beckenham Jn, well the existing trains are pretty much
empty, proving there's not much demand for it. However, the existing
Beckenham services do provide us with extra trains to central London, a
destination that's in great demand. What will happen to these London
services once Tramlink has taken over the Palace-Beckenham line
completely?
Will they just be cut altogether, leaving people with a reduced train
service to London? There's something wrong with a plan to increase
services
on routes that people don't use, and reduce them on lines which they do!

ICBWB I thought that one of the points of the Crystal Palace extension was
that it allows the Beckhenham Junction-Crystal Palace service to remain,
while trains to Crystal Palace could be diverted to somewhere more useful -
Croydon, for example. So the frequency to London should remain the same, but
the frequency to Croydon would increase.

Jonn