Amended weekend train services for Riddlesdown;
We have received this e-mail below from GTR reminding about the engineering works every weekend in January (and later in the year) on the main London to Brighton rail. According to the National Rail website, this WILL have an impact for Riddlesdown train services (and Sanderstead & Upper Warlingham) as they will be hourly only, going to/from London Bridge on both Saturdays and Sundays.

The London/East Grinstead line will be used for access to London Gatwick and onward to Brighton and the south […]

GTR (Southern Railway & Thameslink) have announced today (8/11/25) in an e-mail that they are gradually reinstating the half-hourly service during the weekdays from 14 December 2025 for the East Grinstead line (including Riddlesdown). But there are some catches!

They advise;
“Services between East Grinstead and London Victoria – Monday to Friday
To make it easier for people to travel during the middle of the day, services between East Grinstead and London Victoria will now be half-hourly during the middle of the day on weekdays, rather than hourly.

Gas Main Renewal Works
The RRA were recently contacted by WCB Utilities working on behalf of SGN about further gas main renewal works planned for our area and also in the adjoining in the Purley & Woodcote RA area.

WCB advised: “The current gas mains are metallic and have come to the end of their lifespan, so we are replacing them with polyethylene pipes that have a 80-year lifespan. We use an insertion technique, so we don’t have long open cut trenches throughout the roads.

We have a project starting at the beginning […]