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.

Rail engineering works on the Riddlesdown (RDD) line

There are no trains between South Croydon to/from East Grinstead and/or Uckfield, and including to/from Riddlesdown Station on Sunday 9 November, due to engineering works.

For Riddlesdown, rail tickets will be accepted on the 412 bus service to/from Purley station. This will of course affect those fans travelling to Palace’s home game against Brighton on Sunday. More details on this Southern Railway link

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 […]

Please check train times before travelling. For more information, please click/tap on the relevant date on the link engineering works.

Croydon Council no longer supply a list of road works in our area. So please refer to the One Network link for all of Croydon’s planned road works/closures (and further afield); OneNetwork

Riddlesdown Open Space (end of Riddlesdown Rd) – Car Parking Charges commenced on 25 January 2021

The City of London brought in new parking charges to both Riddlesdown and Farthing Downs car parks from Monday 25 January 2021. A number of residents contacted us and Ward Cllrs about this and particular about the concern of further on street parking to nearby roads, particularly close to Riddlesdown Open Space.

We have taken some information below from the C of L website. There are also some ‘frequently asked […]

Because there are no ‘Traffic Wardens’ patrolling the ‘Common’ car park, residents and users might think that by parking there for a few minutes, that they will ‘get away’ without paying.

We have been advised by a number of users that they have received a ‘Park Charge Notice’ from District Enforcement. Users, by parking there in excess of 10 minutes (drivers only have 10 minutes grace to make a payment – there is no notification about this on site!) and not paying will receive a Park Charge […]