https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermondsey/south-bermondsey-station-reopens-with-new-platforms-to-make-them-less-bouncy/ The independent voice of the London Borough of Southwark Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:24:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermondsey/south-bermondsey-station-reopens-with-new-platforms-to-make-them-less-bouncy/#comment-50054 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:24:23 +0000 https://southwarknews.co.uk/?p=466499#comment-50054 I didn’t even notice the platform was “bouncy” but I have noticed the shelter has now been taken away! Why? It’s a high up and exposed platform so it really needs a shelter, especially for elderly or more vulnerable passengers. Some seating wouldn’t go amiss either. It was already a pretty awful station but since the recent “refurbishment” it’s now even worse.

]]> https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermondsey/south-bermondsey-station-reopens-with-new-platforms-to-make-them-less-bouncy/#comment-50048 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:47:16 +0000 https://southwarknews.co.uk/?p=466499#comment-50048 Waiting for a train from these inhospitable platforms is a soul destroying experience. South Bermondsey Station seems uniquely designed to be exposed to the weather on all four sides. There is little or next to no shelter against the rain or cold or anything else the elements wish to throw at the traveller. It specialises in gale force winds that in winter can cut you like a knife. A very unpleasant hideous and depressing place which you reach wending up a strange lonely path which makes you feel like the character in Munch’s famous picture “The Scream”. As Betjeman said of Slough… “Oh friendly bombs please drop on…”

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