Brixton chitter chatter, part 2
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Travel advice please. I need to go on Thameslink on Friday. I used to go from Streatham but think I am now closer to Tulse and Herne Hill Stations. I've heard Herne Hill now has ramp access, is this so? How easy would it be to get a pushchair onto the platform at Tulse Hill, which I think is actually closer?
Minnie_the_Minx
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You can enter the station and find accessibility information here
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/
If you use Tulse Hill, you'd need to bump the pushchair up/down one flight of steps, maybe two.
Herne Hill certainly has ramp access to the ticket office - haven't used the rest of that station, but it's got a wheelchair icon, so it should be stepfree access. "Should be" isn't much help though, anyone else know?
Herne Hill certainly has ramp access to the ticket office - haven't used the rest of that station, but it's got a wheelchair icon, so it should be stepfree access. "Should be" isn't much help though, anyone else know?
Just checked Herne Hill on that and there's a lift to all platforms.
gaijingirl
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Herne Hill is a breeze with the pram. Go in the entrance immediately adjacent to the flower shop (not the front door as there are steps).. and you can wheel the pram round into the station hall. Then there's lifts up to each platform. That's the entrance for you - but for those coming from Loughbourough Junction/HH you can go in the back way through the tunnel opposite the back entrance to Sainsbury's.
Tulse Hill is more difficult - you enter from a tunnel and need to get someone to help you carry the pram up the steps.
Other good stations to travel to from HH (in terms of pram accessibility) are Beckenham Junction (depending on what platform you're coming in from - but from HH it's great)/Wimbledon (but only one pram at a time). Bromley South is a pain in the arse as they're miserable fuckers there but you almost always need to change platform - once you do though it's a gateway to Kent and many of the smaller stations are great. I HEART the train...
Tulse Hill is more difficult - you enter from a tunnel and need to get someone to help you carry the pram up the steps.
Other good stations to travel to from HH (in terms of pram accessibility) are Beckenham Junction (depending on what platform you're coming in from - but from HH it's great)/Wimbledon (but only one pram at a time). Bromley South is a pain in the arse as they're miserable fuckers there but you almost always need to change platform - once you do though it's a gateway to Kent and many of the smaller stations are great. I HEART the train...
gaijingirl
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nb.. the lifts at Herne Hill are relatively recent and due to heavy heavy campaigning by the HH society. I had a long chat with an old boy about it at the station one day. It's ridiculous that the same isn't available at Bromley South being such a major station.
Minnie_the_Minx
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Yeah, it's all very well having lifts, but do they work?!
The amount of times the lift at Brixton Tube is out of order
Minnie_the_Minx
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Streatham Hill has a lift since last year but that's probably no good for you
gaijingirl
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I take the lifts regularly at HH and I've never known them to be out of order.
Minnie_the_Minx
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gaijingirl
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It's 'cos it's the train line that takes me to my mum's and vice versa - so with the whole childcare thing, we're on it a lot.
Minnie_the_Minx
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snowy_again
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Arf.
Has anyone got a copy of the SLP with the story about Lambeth spuriously fining the Flower Lady during the Christmas Fayre thing she organised at Herne Hill?
Has anyone got a copy of the SLP with the story about Lambeth spuriously fining the Flower Lady during the Christmas Fayre thing she organised at Herne Hill?
Minnie_the_Minx
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Yes, the council are apparently reviewing the case
passivejoe
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Ty Crepe has closed down.
Furniture gone and To Let sign up.
Furniture gone and To Let sign up.
Minnie_the_Minx
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11 September was Ty Crepe's first mention on this thread. Didn't last long
*RIP Ty Crepe*
*RIP Ty Crepe*
Minnie_the_Minx
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Onket would say you should have read the other thread. It's been known for TWO days now
twistedAM
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Positively history in Hill life.
Minnie_the_Minx
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Quite. There'll probably be a brand new shop there by next week selling....
Hm, maybe we should have bets on what it'll become next?!
twistedAM
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Tradition says it'll be vacant for a couple of months and then a new cafe/restaurant will appear for a few months and then the cycle continues.
My bet is on someone trying to start an Caribbeanesque place given the success of Negril. I keep asking the guy in Adams Bakery to open up another Eritrean place but every time he shudders and whispers "rent".
Onket
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No I wouldn't.
Minnie_the_Minx
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Stop taking everything so seriously
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