| Re: New Year's Eve at Charing Cross |
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Group: uk.transport.london · Group Profile
Author: RichardRichard Date: Jan 3, 2008 13:16
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:12:52 -0800 (PST), Mizter T gmail.com>
wrote:>I don't have an answer to your question Paul, but I have just perused
>the TfL New Year's Eve travel info leaflet and there's no specific
>information about closures of Charing X station on NYE. It might be
>the Met Police being overzealous, I don't know.
I was stuck on Villiers Street for a while, the police said that the
exit south to Embankment wouldn't open until 0200 and it seems they
meant it. They were also very well trained with "well I wouldn't
start from here..." type answers to why people couldn't get through to
see the fireworks, etc. I went round by Northumberland Avenue in the
end.
Still, at least we had some proper beer in the Ship and Shovell and
saw 25%% of the fireworks round the side of the office blocks by
Embankment station. This beats last year, when I saw the 1%% that
poked over the top of the buildings on the south side of Trafalgar
Sqaure.
>Aha - but there were special services in the early hours of New Years
>day, sponsored by TfL and free to use. Charing X was the start point
>of four separate half-hourly services.
In my addled state, I bought a ticket to Kingston, as these seemed to
be the only services running from Waterloo after the (SWT-paid-for,
presumably) later than usual "last" services. I thought that TfL may
have provided them but couldn't find any publicity. Everyone knows
that the underground and buses (etc) are free but there seems little
effort to inform us about the trains. Perhaps I wasn't observant, but
at Wimbledon we were joined by a Woking service (at about 0300) that I
hadn't seen on the screens at Waterloo at all. Although on the Down
Fast it didn't sneak past us before New Malden and I was able to get
back to Surbiton by train after all.
Richard.
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