On Jun 5, 11:28 pm, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:47:05 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
wrote:

On Jun 5, 8:31 pm, Paul Weaver wrote:

On 5 June, 20:20, Paul Corfield wrote:

Other than the above I know nothing else and would suggest it is prudent
to have a contingency plan in place if you absolutely have to get around
London on the 11th.

A bike is a perfectly adequate way of getting around zones 1 and 2

Getting a bike to zones 1 and 2 could present more of an issue though.

True but the OP has not indicated what their particular requirements
are. It might be there is some clever way of getting about that he has
not considered. I appreciate there are no guarantees about being able
to get on trains, DLR or buses but there may be options by being
"unconventional" that people would not routinely consider. People also
need to bear in mind that a number of former NR stations are now LUL
managed and therefore might well be affected - the former Silverlink
stations! This creates new problems and restrictions - especially in NW
London.

Good point about the ex-Silverlink stations now under LUL management -
that's all stations from Harrow & Wealdstone to Queen's Park with the
exception of Willesden Jn, Kew Gardens, Gunnersbury, plus there's the
other stations where LU now "manage" the Overground platforms - i.e.
West Brompton, Highbury & Islington, Blackhorse Road.

Then there's stations where LUL manages the main bit of the station
though not the National Rail platforms - e.g. West Ham, Seven Sisters,
Stratford.

I'm guessing that LU would deploy what staff they had so as to cover
these major interchange stations, but maybe there wouldn't be enough
suitably qualified staff to cover the Harrow & Wealdstone to Queen's
Park stretch? That said, weren't some of these stations unmanned for
at least some of the day in the Silverlink era?

And what about Chiltern Railways - there's the question of whether
they could call at their normal LU stations - i.e. Amersham, Chalfont
& Latimer, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, Harrow-on-the-Hill - but is
there also any question about whether they could actually run - are
the LU signallers going on strike too? Even if they could call at
those stations.