Trains to and from Charing Cross will not be able to stop at London Bridge during the first phase of the rebuilding of the Southeastern side of London Bridge – from January 2015 to August 2016. This affects trains from and to Sevenoaks and Dunton Green.  Southeastern have now published revised timetables from January 2015.

Update 20 October: Southeastern have withdrawn the timetables from their website, saying that they were “draft”.  New (final?) timetables are now promised in November.

Update 15 November: Final timetables have now been published.  There is a new SRTA post with our definitive analysis of what this means for Sevenoaks.

The following is mainly for historical and comparative purposes

We have already published our comments on the revised proposals and our Vice-Chairman has spoken about it on BBC Radio Kent.  This post gives a detailed factual note of the changes.

The main changes suggested so far which affect Sevenoaks and Dunton Green are that some Charing Cross trains will be diverted to Cannon Street, and some Cannon Street trains will be diverted to Charing Cross.  The detail is quite complicated.

Weekday, early morning

The 0616 now goes to Cannon Street, not Charing Cross, as well as the 0611 (now timed at 0610).  This still leaves a gap of 37 minutes before the next Cannon Street service at 0653.  Worse, it now creates a gap of 41 minutes between Charing Cross services (at 0549 and 0630).

 

Weekday, morning peak (changes in in bold, changes from original proposal in bold italics)

Train time from Sevenoaks	Destinations	Notes
0703	Waterloo East,  Charing Cross	Not stopping at London Bridge
0711	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	Fast to Waterloo East as usual
0717	London Bridge, Cannon Street	Slow service – No change
0723	London Bridge, Cannon Street	Destination changed – will continue to stop at London Bridge.
0728	London Bridge, Cannon Street	No change
0732	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	Fast to Waterloo East as usual
0737	London Bridge, Cannon Street	Slow service – No change
0743	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	Not stopping at London Bridge
0747	London Bridge, Cannon Street	No change (Restored to usual destination in revised proposals)
0751	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	Fast to Waterloo East as usual
0757	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	Slow service.  Destination changed – not stopping at London Bridge
0803	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	Not stopping at London Bridge
0808	London Bridge, Cannon Street	No change
0812	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	Fast to Waterloo East as usual
0817	London Bridge, Cannon Street	Slow service – No change
0823	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	Not stopping at London Bridge  (Restored to usual destination in revised proposals)
0827	London Bridge, Cannon Street	No change (Restored to usual destination in revised proposals)
0831	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	No change (Service restored in revised proposals)
0837	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	Slow service.  Not stopping at London Bridge
0847	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	Not stopping at London Bridge
0851	Waterloo East, Charing Cross	Not stopping at London Bridge
0856	London Bridge, Cannon Street	No change

 

Weekday, daytime service

The fast trains running between London and Tunbridge Wells (xx14 and xx19 from Sevenoaks, xx00 and xx30 from London) will operate to and from Cannon Street calling at London Bridge.

The other fast trains (xx19, xx29, xx49 and xx59 from Sevenoaks, xx10, xx15, xx40 and xx45 from London) will continue to operate to Waterloo East and Charing Cross, but will not stop at London Bridge

Weekday, evening peak

No changes are currently proposed to Sevenoaks services in the evening peak.  The SRTA Trains Group considers that this will mean that most people who normally catch the Tunbridge Wells services at Platform 5 at London Bridge will catch services from Cannon Street from Platform 2 – adding to the existing overcrowding on these trains.

Weekday, evening post-peak

The current proposal is that Tunbridge Wells services (xx14 and xx44 from Sevenoaks, xx00 and xx30 from London) are diverted to Cannon Street, calling at London Bridge.  Other trains would continue to go to Charing Cross but would not stop at London Bridge.

The last trains will be from Charing Cross at 2345 (fast) and 0015 (slow); these trains will call at Waterloo East, then at Cannon Street (at 0001 and 0029 respectively), and then at London Bridge (at 0005 and 0033).  The detour via Cannon Street adds time to the journey; the last direct trains are at 2340 from Charing Cross (not stopping at London Bridge) and 2333 from Cannon Street.

Saturdays

The Saturday service will be similar to the weekday off-peak services.

Sundays

All Sunday services will go to and from London Bridge and Cannon Street.  There will be no services to Charing Cross and Waterloo East.  (It’s not yet clear whether Cannon Street Underground will be open or whether rail tickets will be valid through to Embankment.)  Fast services from Sevenoaks at xx00, xx21, xx30 and xx51 and from Cannon Street at xx10, xx27, xx40 and xx57.  Last fast train from Cannon Street at 2340 with a slow train at 0001.

Note:  This is an update of a previous analysis of the original Southeastern proposals.