GTR 6 July timetable summary

1. Increase of 234 GTR services, to 87% of pre-covid weekday service.
11 percentage point increase in AM peak capacity –
especially between 06:00 and 07:30 to support staggered journeys 

2. Southern 

1. Additional peak metro services (Sutton to London Victoria via
Selhurst 2tph > 4tph) + 2TPH London Bridge to London Victoria
2.Direct services to Milton Keynes from Clapham Junction until the early evening
3. Longer trains between Redhill and London Victoria 4. Longer trains between Sussex Coast
and London Victoria during peak hours
5. Additional peak services on East Coastway, Arun Valley, Epsom and East Grinstead routes 

3. Thameslink 

1. Two fast services from Bedford in the peak
2. Peak time services from East Grinstead to Bedford, Littlehampton to Bedford,
Orpington to Luton / Kentish Town 

4. Great Northern 

1. Higher frequency on GN Metro route to Moorgate (4TPH on both branches for most of the day)
2. Peak fast services to Peterborough
3. Baldock to King’s Cross service
4. Additional Cambridge to King’s Lynn / Ely services 

The travellers on Rickman Hill  have been removed.
A couple of taller posts have been put in to block the entrance they used when the  previous post was knocked down.
We are lucky to have a green  quiet unbuilt  space for residents of West Coulsdon.
Use it or we might lose it.
Join Coulsdon West Residents' Association now for £3 per household.
CWRA is the only RA run by Coulsdon West residents.
It is the only RA that puts Coulsdon West first.

Thank you to everyone who picked up rubbish yesterday after the travellers left.  Members of the "Litterati" cleared the park completely.
Thank you particularly Lisa Emily Holly and Josh.
Please join them in our campaign to keep Rickman Hill Park clean and safe for all. Can we please try to maintain this standard by taking our litter home, using the bins provided and reminding litter bugs that it is not their space to spoil.

Travellers  on Rickman Hill Park. 19.6.20

The council is aware and we are actively dealing with them, this is one of two small groups which have turned up in the borough over the past couple of days. We have been to site and the travellers are reluctant to move on despite the court injunction we have in place across the borough so we are seeking a High Court order to bring in bailiffs to evict them as soon as possible.

Both the Police and council will be keeping a close eye on them until we receive the high court order.

Steve Iles MBE

Director of Public Realm

Zooming with our M.P.
We have the opportunity to zoom with our M.P.
Chris Philp at a future date. To be eligible to join our meeting you must be a paid up member of CWRA (£ 3 ) and to have provided us with an up-to- date  email address.
Directions on how to join are available on the Membership page

Weekend engineering work June - July 2020
Passengers who must travel between East Grinstead/Uckfield and stations to London are being asked to check their journey plans over the next four weekends when Network Rail will undertake strengthening, repair and refurbishment work to the Oxted Viaduct.

Redevelopment of East Croydon Station
There are plans to slightly change the position of East Croydon Rail Station. Residents are encouraged to be involved in the consultation by using phone lines designated for this purpose.
Please ensure that you contribute with your suggestions and concerns when the consultation process begins.

To facilitate a repair on a gas escape SGN are controlling traffic with multi way temporary signals at the junction with of Verulam Avenue and Walburton Road. The work is expected to be completed by the 23rd June. 

Jackie Edgerton

Network Management Officer 

Place Department

Streets Division

Highways Team

6^th Floor Zone C

Bernard Weatherill House

8 Mint Walk

Croydon

CR0 1EA

Email: jackie.edgerton@croydon.gov.uk

Tel: 020 8726 6000 - Ext 64907

Fax: 020 8633 9566

Mob: 07827280355

Minicom 020 8760 5797

Council services, online, 24/7 www.croydon.gov.uk/myaccount.Please use this web site address to view the council's e-mail disclaimer - http://www.croydon.gov.uk/email-disclaimer

Return to front door boarding and capacity limits on London buses

We are now listing London bus routes as they change on our website here: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/buses/bus-changes?intcmp=47904

 Michelle Wildish

Engagement officer | Local Communities & Partnerships | City Planning

Mobile: 07864 245 586 | Floor 9, 5 Endeavour Square, London, E20 1NJ

We are the Coulsdon West Residents' Association.
Our aim is to help residents in West Coulsdon and make Coulsdon a great place to live.

Our M.P., councillors , council officers and decision makers in the NHS, public transport ,TFL, developers,the police,the local press and others consult us

We are affiliated to organisations which advocate for our area such as the London Green Belt  Council ,the Road Users Forum, the East Surrey Transport Committee and the Neighbourhood Safety Team. 

We work in coordination with our sister RA's.

Please join us.See below in this blog https://thecwra.blogspot.com/ , and our twitter account https://twitter.com/cwratweet on how to join paying just £3 by standing order.

Our road stewards are unable to collect door to door at present. Please ensure that you give your personal contact details, particularly your email address.

If you are already paying subs please check that you have in the past supplied us with your email address

To achieve our aims we need more members and our income from subs.

 If you wish to volunteer please mention this when you submit your details.

We are stronger together.

Update from the Met Police

It has been a rather busy two weeks since the last update.

 We have been supporting the Response Teams in answering 999 calls

 and facilitating peaceful protests on both Croydon and Bromley Borough.

 We have also been coming into work in the very early hours

 (between 0430 and 0530 hours) to tackle some very early morning crime. 

Operation Basswood This is an ongoing operation investigating

 the large number of catalytic converter thefts across Bromley, Croydon and Sutton.

 The operation continues with proactive daily deployments.

 Anyone with information relating to Catalytic Converter thefts

 please call 101 or email the following OpBasswood@met.police.uk

 This operation is heavily supported by Purley and Woodcote SNT

 who have been undertaking a number of plain clothes

 and intelligence led patrols across the Ward. 

News From Your Teams:- Coulsdon Town

 Colleagues from the Met Police Traffic Command

supported by Surrey Police undertook a late night ANPR operation

 on the ward tackling transient crime and County Lines Drug Supply.

 Multiple arrests were made for drug possession

 and several vehicles were seized, making the operation a huge success.

There are more planned with our partners

 that will be supported by your ward officers as spotters. 

 www.nextdoor.co.uk

Safer Neighbourhood Team 

June 2020 Croydon Police Newsletter 

Coulsdon Town Safer Neighbourhood Team 

The team Sergeant Gavin Durnell 267SN, PC Hurst Ben 2534SN, PCSO De Sousa 7187SN 

Email – SNmailbox.CoulsdonTownSNT@met.police.uk 

Website - www.met.police.uk/a/your-area/met/croydon/coulsdon-town/ 

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MPSCoulsdonWest/ 

Twitter - @MPSCoulsdonTown 

Discover the social network for your neighbourhood at http://nextdoor.co.uk 

Telephone - In an emergency please call 999 or if the matter is non-urgent but requires a police response please dial 101 

Useful Contacts 

Crime Stoppers If you wish to contact police anonymously you can contact Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111 or go to their website https://crimestoppers-uk.org/ 

London Borough of Croydon: switchboard 020 8726 6000 or via the free My Croydon app 

Trading Standards: 020 8407 1311 Email: trading.standards@croydon.gov.uk 

Citizens Advice Consumer Service: 03454 04 05 06 

Antisocial behaviour: Email: ASBTeam@croydon.gov.uk 

Fly-tipping: 020 8604 7000 Email: flytip@croydon.gov.uk 

Graffiti: 020 8726 6200 

Abandoned vehicles: If you want to check whether a car is taxed you can check here: www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-tax 

Untaxed but NOT abandoned report via www.gov.uk/report-untaxed-vehicle 

Untaxed AND abandoned report to Abandoned Vehicle Section Email:avs.parking@croydon.gov.uk

Are you in the CWRA area?
You are if you are within these roads forming our borders.
Rickman Hill, Woodfield Hill, Woodfield Close, Petworth Close,  Starrock Road,
and everything West of the Brighton Road to Lion Green Road,Station Approach ,
Windermere Road, Smitham Downs Road, Meadow Rise,
 Appledown Rise, Clifton Road, Winifred Road, Lyndhurst Road and Ridgemount Avenue.
For £3 you can join us and help influence decisions about our area.

Membership Subscriptions
Due to the virus our road stewards have been unable to collect subscriptions. 

Please pay by standing order to Barclays Bank Coulsdon

sort code 20-24-61

for the credit of Coulsdon West Residents' Association

Account number 10293482

quoting reference house number and post code. 

When paying residents also need to send their name, address, email address and telephone number to our Treasurer Michael Southwell email  jmtsouthwell82@gmail.com   or they can write to him at 28 Warwick Road CR5 2EE.
If you are already paying by standing order please send Michael your personal contact details.We particularly need your email address.

You will appreciate that we depend upon a small band of volunteers and  rely on membership subscriptions.

Please join us. The more members we have, the more influence we have.Our subs remain at £3.

Who is who on the CWRA committee

Chair Lynne Rothberg

Vice Chair/Events  Lucy Acres

Secretary Yvonne Walker

Treasurer Michael Southwell

Public Transport Peter Appleford

Planning Richard Walker

Chair's Assistant David Rothberg

Newsletter Editor Jean Biggs
Rickman Hill Park Keith Watkins

Travel Update from GTR Since the 17 May, we’ve added  three additional AM peak services on the Great Northern Metro into Moorgate  additional Southern Metro services in the Selhurst corridor and added extra carriages where we can such as to  an AM service from Epsom. We have also made a set of subtle changes to promote social distancing, such as changing which platforms are used to reduce consecutive arrivals onto platform 5 & 6 at Brighton, which is the narrowest of Brighton’s platforms. On Monday 15 June, we are introducing a small set of further improvements where passenger numbers are increasing. This will include a set of extra AM and PM peak time trains on the Great Northern Metro, and extra carriages  in the AM and PM peak on the busy Southern route between Epsom and London Victoria via Sutton. .Our entire fleet of Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express trains, plus stations and staff areas  have been treated with a powerful new viruscide which sticks to surfaces, killing the viruses for up to 30 days. Safety Alongside our extensive cleaning regime we have introduced a number of measures to improve the safety of our passengers and our staff. These include: ·  Adjusting shift patterns for our staff and enabling some staff members to standby at home ·  Face masks and hygiene packs for all frontline colleagues ·  Delivering extra train capacity and services in response to passenger, staff and stakeholder feedback ·  Ordered 1,000 no touch hand sanitisers for staff and passengers at stations ·  Developed a social distancing app to enable frontline staff to provide Control with real-time information  and alter services as required ·  Installed a range of signage across our stations and onboard to encourage social distancing We are continually reviewing our safety procedures, alongside the wider industry, and seeking feedback from passengers and staff to ensure we are delivering the most up to date practices during this time Engineering works – East Coast Main Line We are continuing to work in partnership with Network Rail and industry partners to progress the £1.2 billion upgrade of the East Coast Main Line. The upgrade includes remodelling the track  and signalling around King’s Cross, upgrading the power supply, installing completing a new platform at Stevenage and major infrastructure work at Werrington – just north of Peterborough. The next stage of the upgrade work is planned for Saturday 20th June and Sunday 21st June 2020  This important enabling work is required in advance of the major remodelling work planned at King’s Cross station. The work will mean that no direct services will run to or from King’s Cross Station London on the East Coast Main Line on these dates. On the GTR network, no Thameslink or Great Northern services will run on the East Coast Main Line into King’s Cross,  St Pancras or Moorgate. Trains will be terminating at Gordon Hill and New Barnet,  with rail replacement buses operating from those stations, and Potters Bar, to stations on the Midland Mainline and to  London Underground stations for onward connections into London. . For more information on the Government’s advice on safer travel go to: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-safer-travel-guidance-for-passengers

To facilitate a repair on a gas escape SGN are controlling traffic with two way temporary signals outside 144 Chipstead Valley Road near the junction with Portnalls Road. The work is expected to be completed by the 16^th June. I will of course keep you updated should this change.

Jackie Edgerton

Network Management Officer 

Place Department

Streets Division

Highways Team

6^th Floor Zone C

Bernard Weatherill House

8 Mint Walk

Croydon

CR0 1EA

Coulsdon Road As part of SGN mandatory gas replacement scheme there continues to be 2 way or multi way signals along Coulson Road. From Monday 1st June will see the works continue with two signals at the junction with Tollers Lane at its junction with Coulsdon Road. Tollers Lane and Waddington Avenue are closed at their junction with Coulsdon Road. There is another team working at the junction of Keston Avenue and The Glade under multi way signals

Pampisford Road As part of SGN mandatory gas mains replacement scheme they are continuing their work along Pampisford Road and are now coming up to the junction with St Augustines Avenue. The traffic on Pampisford will be controlled with multiway signals. This scheme commenced on 4th May for approximately 16 weeks

Coulsdon Road To facilitate an immediate repair on the low voltage mains cable affecting a customer,  UKPN have installed two way temporary signals on Coulsdon Road outside number 154. The work is expected to be completed by 13th June

Hayes Lane UKPN will be using multi way signals on Hayes Lane at the junction with Abbots Lane from 9th to 11th June to carry out a new service connection

Mitchley Avenue UKPN will be using two way temporary signals, 25 metres west of Riddlesdown Road, to facilitate work on replacing a link box. These works will take place from 15th to 19th June between the hours of 9.30am and 2.00pm daily

Stoats Nest Road Network Rail will be carrying out steelwork repairs to the railway bridge using two way signals from 22nd to 25th June between the hours of 9pm and 6am

Clifton Road/Richmond Road To facilitate the replacement of a link box UKPN will be using multi way signals on the junction of Richmond Road and Clifton Road from 22nd to 26th June

Riddlesdown Road Riddlesdown Road will be closed, outside number 80, to facilitate a sewer connection from 22nd to 25th July. The diversion for displaced traffic is via Warren Road and Grasmere Road.

TFL  ANNOUNCEMENT LATEST


Face coverings can be a simple cloth that covers the nose and mouth. They can be made using many items found in the home or in a number of shops, so people can make their own. More information about how to make a face covering can be found here: https://www.london.gov.uk/coronavirus/face-covering-guidance.


As part of our phased approach there will also further bus routes reverting to front door boarding from Saturday 6 June. Capacity limits will continue to be introduced on the routes as they revert back to help ensure social distancing can be maintained on board.  For the London Borough of Croydon this will apply to routes 50 and 633. Details of all the routes this will apply to can be found here: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/buses/bus-changes.