I've got to get to that void in the London Transport system called
Battersea tomorrow. I'm travelling in from North London, so I can grab
the Piccadilly or Victoria lines, but no tube stations seem within miles
of it.

Is there a decent bus connection with any tube station ?

I need to get to Battersea Bridge Road in SW11

--
Edward Cowling "Must go - Another Year Another Sheet Change !"

Edward Cowling London UK wrote:

I've got to get to that void in the London Transport system called
Battersea tomorrow.

Well, apart from the busiest train station in the UK :-) But there's no
tube stations, no.

I'm travelling in from North London, so I can grab
the Piccadilly or Victoria lines, but no tube stations seem within miles
of it.

Is there a decent bus connection with any tube station ?

I need to get to Battersea Bridge Road in SW11

How about: Victoria line to Vauxhall. Short overground train to Clapham
Junction and then jump on a bus from there? There's several routes that
go to Battersea Bridge Road.

--
Paul

On 10 Mar, 12:07, Paul wrote:

Edward Cowling London UK wrote:

I've got to get to that void in the London Transport system called
Battersea tomorrow.

Well, apart from the busiest train station in the UK :-) But there's no
tube stations, no.

For those who are baffled by this, Clapham Junction is of course
actually in Battersea, not Clapham!


I'm travelling in from North London, so I can grab

the Piccadilly or Victoria lines, but no tube stations seem within miles
of it.
Is there a decent bus connection with any tube station ?

I need to get to Battersea Bridge Road in SW11

How about: Victoria line to Vauxhall. Short overground train to Clapham
Junction and then jump on a bus from there? There's several routes that
go to Battersea Bridge Road.


Or the Victoria line to Victoria, then a mainline train from Victoria
to Clapham Junction (there are trains every 5 minutes).

Alternatively take the Victoria line to Vauxhall, then the 344 bus to
the bottom of Battersea Bridge Road - the bus goes along east-west
Battersea Park Road, then a short walk up the road (or jump on a
passing bus). The journey on the 344 from Vauxhall will take less than
15 minutes off-peak, and the service runs frequently.

Battersea really isn't that hard to get to!

In message
,
Mizter T writes
passing bus). The journey on the 344 from Vauxhall will take less than
15 minutes off-peak, and the service runs frequently.

Battersea really isn't that hard to get to!

It's the haven of the cheap office crowd. Courier companies and
Telesales, and all because it's transport blighted. Put a decent tube
link in and the area would blossom. In the ends it took me 2 hours to
get from Palmers Green to Battersea Bridge. I may have been unlucky,
but no one is going to do that twice a day out of choice.

--
Edward Cowling "Must go - Another Year Another Sheet Change !"

In message , Edward Cowling
London UK writes

Put a decent tube link in and the area would blossom.

Crikey ... the average house price in Battersea is already over 750,000
UKP - just think would a tube would do for the estate agents!

--
Paul Terry

In message , Paul Terry
writes
In message , Edward Cowling
London UK writes

Put a decent tube link in and the area would blossom.

Crikey ... the average house price in Battersea is already over 750,000
UKP - just think would a tube would do for the estate agents!


Give over ! There are boarded up shops & buildings just on the South
Side of Battersea Bridge.

Mind you Lord Archer lives in a tower block in SE11 which must be worth
several million, but I'm darned if I'd want to live in SE11 :-)

--
Edward Cowling "Must go - Another Year Another Sheet Change !"

Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
In message
,
Mizter T writes
passing bus). The journey on the 344 from Vauxhall will take less
than 15 minutes off-peak, and the service runs frequently.

Battersea really isn't that hard to get to!

It's the haven of the cheap office crowd. Courier companies and
Telesales, and all because it's transport blighted. Put a decent tube
link in and the area would blossom. In the ends it took me 2 hours to
get from Palmers Green to Battersea Bridge.

The TfL Journey Planner shows journeys of 67 - 72 minutes at 20-minute
intervals via FCC to Finsbury Park, Piccadily Line to South Kensington, and
the 49 bus from there. What took you so long?
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

In message , Richard J.
writes
Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
In message
,
Mizter T writes
passing bus). The journey on the 344 from Vauxhall will take less
than 15 minutes off-peak, and the service runs frequently.

Battersea really isn't that hard to get to!

It's the haven of the cheap office crowd. Courier companies and
Telesales, and all because it's transport blighted. Put a decent tube
link in and the area would blossom. In the ends it took me 2 hours to
get from Palmers Green to Battersea Bridge.

The TfL Journey Planner shows journeys of 67 - 72 minutes at 20-minute
intervals via FCC to Finsbury Park, Piccadily Line to South Kensington, and
the 49 bus from there. What took you so long?

Real life as opposed to the journey planner :-) Funny enough the time
for the Victoria Line to go from Highbury to Vauxhall is always quoted
as 15 minutes. In 9 months of using the line every day my average time
was around 25 minutes. I think the guy who did the times in Autoroute
used the same Ferrari burning nitro model for TFL :-)

And just don't get me onto the number of times every week that my train
from Highbury to Palmers Green simply stops dead at Finsbury Park, gets
diverted to Kings Cross in the morning, grinds to a halt completely, or
any one of another dozen reasons to make me get home late.

Arrrghhhh !!

--
Edward Cowling "Must go - Another Year Another Sheet Change !"

On 12 Mar, 12:33, Edward Cowling London UK
wrote:
In message

Put a decent tube link in and the area would blossom. In the ends it took me 2 hours to
get from Palmers Green to Battersea Bridge. *I may have been unlucky,
but no one is going to do that twice a day out of choice.

That's a typical north London attitude along the lines of the famous
newspaper headline "Fog in Channel. Europe cut off". Those of us in
the civilised part of London (south of the river) find little trouble
in moving around using things called trains and even buses. The almost
complete absence of the underground network isn't any sort of problem
at all. You should get out more ;-)

Peter

Peter Heather wrote:
On 12 Mar, 12:33, Edward Cowling London UK
wrote:
In message

Put a decent tube link in and the area would blossom. In the ends it
took me 2 hours to get from Palmers Green to Battersea Bridge. I may
have been unlucky,
but no one is going to do that twice a day out of choice.

That's a typical north London attitude along the lines of the famous
newspaper headline "Fog in Channel. Europe cut off". Those of us in
the civilised part of London (south of the river) find little trouble
in moving around using things called trains and even buses. The almost
complete absence of the underground network isn't any sort of problem
at all. You should get out more ;-)


Yes - a nice cheap improvement showing transport availability for those
heading south of the river would be to remove all the 'tube maps' and put
ATOC 'London Connections' maps up everywhere.

Quite easy to implement I would have thought...

Paul S