Travelling Between London Stations
When I came home from Moorgate this morning, I took my usual 141 bus.
I sat next to a lady about forty, who from her bags looked like she’d just arrived by plane at Gatwick Airport.
After a couple of attempts at conversation, it became obvious, that we didn’t have a common language.
She then produced her phone and indicated that she needed Liverpool Street station.
The 141 bus doesn’t serve Liverpool Street station, but it does serve the Western entrance to Liverpool Street station on the Elizabeth Line.
It looks to me, that she had been told by a human being, an app or the Internet, that the easiest way from London Bridge bus station to Liverpool Street station was to take the 141 bus from in front of the station and walk across to Liverpool Street station from Moorgate.
But.
- The Western entrance to Liverpool Street station has no information to indicate, that it gives access to Liverpool Street station.
- The bus information system indicates Moorgate station.
- The bus information system does not announce, that for Liverpool Street station, you should alight at Moorgate station.
Perhaps, the bus information system should indicates Moorgate/Liverpool Street station.
Conclusion
How many other transfers between London stations are similarly confusing?
The Anonymous Widower 
Gatwick to Liverpool Street – why not Thameslink from GTW to Farringdon, then Elizabeth Line? That would be much easier than the long walk with luggage from train to bus at London Bridge and from the bus at Moorgate to Liverpool Street.
You wrote this on Tuesday 2nd April, referring to “this morning”. Was any part of that route closed for extended Easter engineering works?
Many stations are badly signed: St Pancras and London Bridge are particularly bad. For example, there are no signs at St Pancras for the quiet walking route along Brill Place / Phoenix Road to Euston.
Comment by John M. | April 29, 2024 |
There are a lot of missing signs, especially on Thameslink, where on some stations they don’t put up bus maps.
I actually think the easiest route from London Bridge to Liverpool Street with luggage is a 141 or 43 bus to Moorgate using the lifts between the platforms at London Bridge and the bus station.
Then at Moorgate use the new Elizabeth Line entrance and the lift to the sub-service lines and go one stop to Liverpool Street.
At Liverpool Street there are lifts to the concourse.
Comment by AnonW | April 29, 2024 |