Good location for HSBC's Sports and Social Grounds, and access to the Crystal Palace Training…read moreGround, Goals - Beckenham, Gambado Childrens Soft Play Centre. There are no toilet, waiting room or cafe facilities at this station. During peak M-F morning rush, there is a small tea/coffee stand which sells daily newspapers and snacks. The ticket desk is only open at certain times, all other times you need to use the 1 ticket machine which is located outside the main entrance (HSBC side). You can queue to use this machine, so don't expect to buy a ticket for a train due in 2-3 minutes!

I rather like this station! It is small, yet perfectly formed and offers both the orange…read more(overground) line and a normal train service up to London Bridge or down to Caterham. If you enter on the station approach side, you will emerge at platform 2 - the southbound platform, and there is a footbridge over to the northbound platform 1 (if you want to up into London). The station staff seem very friendly, but I suspect that they don;t get much appreciation. I smiled and said hello to one, and almost missed my train because he so wanted to chat! The delicious "On the Hoof" coffee serves monmouth coffee and small eats for breakfast during the week. It's clean and well presented, and the platforms are wide enough so that I don't feel like I am taking my life into my own hands when walking along them (take note Wapping!). There are good electronic boards that clearly tell you where and when the next three trains are going. It's a great station really!

Two stars my be harsh, but my reason behind it lays squarely with South Eastern trains. I would…read morenever normally get off at Lewisham (It's nothing against Lewisham, just that it's not my stop... There is one situation where a Lewisham stop is necessary... My trains been canceled (usually because a worm or the like has wriggled within 100m of a signal box/live rail) and there is no way for me to get home. Save from Lewisham and its sub-par overground service the DLR. When (not if) my train is cancelled, I have to get to Lewisham, either from DLR or on an unaffected overground train (if there are any). From here I grab the trusty, wiggly, unstable 89 bus all the way home. I have nothing against Lewisham, I just don;t like being there because of what's happened before. I'd love to give it more, I'm just too full of rage :(

Had my doubts about Lewisham station / area but I was pleasantly surprised the staff friendly and…read morewelcoming, nice communitors and a policeman dotted around here and there so I felt safe. Station quite small but very clean. Did not like gap though from platform to train that I had to step over it was huge largest gap ever.

Busy and easy train station to navigate Quickest way to…read morecentral London from here Trains can be delayed on and off Clean and enough food stalls and shops for the size

I won't say that this station is huge, but compared to a lot of other stations that I've visited,…read moreit is still pretty massive. Well, that probably should be surprising considering that Croydon is a pretty major metropolitan hub, so of course there is going to be a pretty large station here. Like a lot of stations, it's not bad at all, and reasonably easy to get around. Oh, and there are lots of shops there as well.

This station has been improving especially with the introduction of more ticket machines. These…read moredon't always work however especially when reading oyster cards. This station is however lethal in the snow especially for those with prams or using wheelchairs as they never grit the ramp which becomes a sheet of black ice to go skating down. At night the station is reasonably well lit however it is an open station so security is not the best. Some closures have been occuring on this line as they prepare for the longer trains so check journey planner in advance.

I love this station, since it's so close to my home! The only problem is that every day there's a…read morefresh pile (or two) of dog turd that show up on the stairs, across the bridge or along the pathway. Not TFL's fault, rather the anti social scum that hang out around the area with their dogs. One other thing is the lights - I think they've been out for a while! Walking across the bridge in the dark at night time is pretty hazardous, not only because of potential assault but also the chance on stepping on the dog mess that you can't see!

I was going to say that this was a regional station, but actually it isn't considering that…read moreGreenwich is actually a borough of London. Still, as a station it's pretty cool, and I believe it is the last one before you get to London Bridge station, which I certainly found convenient, considering that I needed to get to Piccadilly for a show (and I did manage to make it, though I should have brought some water with me). Yeah, this was a pretty cool station, and it certainly had some lovely old charm about it as well.

Greenwich Station is in Zone 2 and hosts overground services operated by South Eastern towards…read moreCannon Street and Charing Cross (London Bound) and Dartford and Kent. It is located a few minutes walk away from Greenwich's main attractions. When leaving the station, turn left and walk down Greenwich High Road. Facility wise there is a small coffee shop and a news stand where you can purchase newspapers, magazines, drinks and snacks for the same price as a newsagent. Another thing which is worth noting is that for some reason the trains here stop all the way down the end of the platform, quite far away from the station entrance which is really quite annoying is if you're running late it means you are likely to miss your train. Get to the station early if you can. I have also once made a complaint to tfl as I was approached by sales people on the platform trying to sell me dental insurance (or something) which made me feel uncomfortable whilst I waited. Credit to tfl and the staff, my complaint was upheld and I haven't seen sales people on the platform since.

So, this is another one of those modern stations, but this one is like connected to a major…read moreshopping centre, if you basically consider Canary Wharf a shopping centre in its own right. Well, that was certainly the case with this station. It is pretty fancy, and pretty new as well, but I can't really claim that it is a favourite.

It's confusing to write about Canary Wharf Station now as it's really three stations serving three…read moreseperate lines - the Jubilee and Elizabeth lines, and the DLR (there is a distinction between all three of these some Londoners will insist on making that is technically correct but really just serves to confuse the hell out of non locals) - but all together it's a sprawling set of linked transportation and shopping options unrivaled in London. What Canary Wharf lacks in soul it makes up for in convenience and choice. The whole design is focused around servicing the clinetel of the region, namely white collar business folks who live and work in the area. History was bombed and made obsolete around here so you're not going to find any remenants of the past save the reappropriated docks. But it is quite modern, clean, and bold in its design and feels quite different than anywhere else you'll visit in London. The older Jubille and DLR areas are by far the most useful as they are situated in the middle of a sprawling mall with a variety of good options; you'll find everything from standard convienience like Boots and M&S to more novel offers like the wonderful Tian Tian Market (dedicated to everything East and Southeast Asian cusine) and a local branch of Malin & Goetz. A smaller selection of mostly food options are available at the Elizabeth Line area. Nothing is necessarily architectuarally interesting at any of the areas of the stations per say although they're big, clean, modern and safe. I suppose the Elizabeth Line has a really sort of futuristic strange spaceshiip look to the exterior but you have to pan your eyes away from the fact that one of London's crudiest attempts at Western regional food (Big Easy) is perched up there. There's a least a five minute brisk walk between each of the stations so keep that in mind if you need to switch between them.

In zone 3, London Borough of lewisham has train and overground running through…read more Connecting from Croydon to London train line.

Both overground for your east London connection and normal rail services into London bridge and out…read moreto south London. Nearby you have a small shopping outlet so easy to laden up and jump on a train back home.