The Anonymous Widower

Liverpool Street To De Beauvoir Town

I regularly do this journey both ways to get to and from the main line station, which I regularly use to get a train to and from Ipswich.

Getting to the station has now got a lot better as the 21 and 141 buses that are the simple way now stop in Eldon Street by the station.

But coming back is getting to be an increasingly variable and difficult journey.

Take last night!

As I was watching Murray’s progress on my phone and the train from Walthamstow Central to Hackney Downs didn’t have any working announcements, I missed by stop in the dark and ended up in Liverpool Street at about nine o’clock. My normal route from the station these days is the reliable one taking the Metropolitan Line to Whitechapel and then getting the Overground to Dalston Junction, from where I get any of a number of buses to my house.

But last night the Overground wasn’t working due to Crossrail works and the last time on a Sunday night, I had walked to Moorgate to get a bus, I’d ended up walking all the way to Old Street to get one and then I’d waited for perhaps twenty minutes.

So I took the Central Line to Bank and luckily a 21 arrived in a few minutes to get me home.

Crossrail and the lengthening of platforms on the Overground, has made the last two or three years difficult, as you never know what you’ll find when you make the journey. Hence my going via Whitechapel, as on most days that is the most reliable.

It would help if Transport for London provided one stop that was never closed, especially as the only one that seems to be there all the time is the one by Bank, which requires a long walk or a one-stop Tube trip.

After Crossrail opens it will get better, as not only will Whitechapel-Liverpool Street be a fast one stop, but surely the 21 and 141 buses will be an easy and perhaps underground and covered walk from Liverpool Street.

Look at this Google Earth map between Liverpool Street and Shoreditch High Street stations.

Liverpool Street And Shoreditch Stations

Liverpool Street station is in the bottom left, where all the indicated Underground lines join and Shoreditch High Street is in the top right on the orange Overground line.

Surely something could be done to create a better walking route between the two stations.

April 6, 2015 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Buses, Crossrail, De Beauvoir Town, Liverpool Street Station