The Anonymous Widower

Up and Down the Stairs at Hackney Downs

I went for supper to Walthamstow tonight.

The easiest way is to get a bus to Hackney Downs station and then take a Chingford train. It works well if you just catch a train.

But I just got to the top at Platform 2 to see the train disappearing out of the station.  It looks like I’d have to wait for twenty minutes, but a stationman said there was another train in ten minutes on Platform 4. So it was down the dreaded staircase again and then up another one.

Surely for passenger convenience, all Chingford trains should leave Hackney  Downs from the same platform.  Or if for operational reasons they can’t then perhaps there should be a display at the bottom of the stairs, that lists all departures in order together with the platform. The Overground has such a display at both Highbury and Islington and Dalston Junction stations. Even the bus stop outside Hackney Downs has a display showing the details of the next few buses.

September 1, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Buses, Hackney Downs Station, Trains