Not sure why but I seem to have a lot of Crystal Palace fans following me so just wanted to say well done and enjoy the night. Not many teams with 3 trophies in 12 months!

@kermodemovie.bsky.social hello, some fella has uploaded a shed load of John Peel shows from the 70s and 80s. I saw sessions with Wreckless Eric, Comsat Angels and Gang of Four and thought of you. www.mixcloud.com/karleldridge5/

New pinned tweet. Fuck you, I’m calling it a tweet. 49 Thameslink stations to do at the behest of TfL. Then we are done

So the Thameslink has 64 stations. Luckily I have already been to 15 - see below - which leaves 49 to go. I am out the country working all over the summer but when I’m back in mid August we will be going everywhere from New Barnet to Orpington. Hurrah!!

Well that’s the tram done. Just Thameslink left and then I am definitely DEFINITELY done

460/509 Dundonald Road: Croydon Tram. After the fucking shitshow that has been most of the tram it’s nice to be at a normal bar in Wimbledon without clinically insane racists. My mate Simon lives here, he’s used the tram once and I can see why. Let’s not do it again. Half cider £3.50 Rating 3/5

459/509 Merton Park: Croydon Tram. I walk past Dundonald Road on my way to the pub so know it’s the same pub twice, which makes things easier. The Garrett & Gauge either isn’t open or has closed down so I go to Bertie’s Bar. Ramblers in front of me who take ages. Dicks. Half cider £3.50 Rating 3/5

458/460 Morden Road: Croydon Tram. Oh that’s disappointing, I’m back at The Royal Surrey. Good news is that alcoholic mum has gone home. Or onto another pub. Man in the toilets shouting at his phone “I can’t fucking answer, I’m holding my cock!!” Well quite. Half cider £2.60 Rating 1/5

457/509 Phipps Bridge: Croydon Tram. Walking through the park I smell the aroma of weed and spy two fellas smoking and drinking. I don’t judge.. Then I spot the pram between them. Oh. Ooh I went to The Royal Surrey when I did Morden!! Fucking 30p more than last time. Half cider £2.60 Rating 1/5

So, only 4 to go… but the good news for those who like a boring tedious task is that Sadiq’s office came back to me - via TfL - re. my request as to whether I should be doing the Thameslink as well. On one hand it’s not part of TfL, on the other it is on the map. An excellent response says ‘do it’!!

456/460 Belgrave Walk: Croydon Tram. Nearest pub The Surrey Arms is 2 1/2 miles away by car! Booo. Luckily I’m walking and it’s half a mile through a footpath. Hurray!! Ask for half an Inch’s. “Sorry mate”, shouts a local “we only do 6 inches”! Wahey. Bants all around. Half cider £3.30 Rating 1/5

455/460 Mitcham: Croydon Tram. Yet another Indian restaurant/ pub in Mitcham is The Crown Inn. It’s depressing. Just a handful of tables and chairs in a blank empty room and the query of a half confuses the barman who cant find a suitable glass. Let’s not come here again. Half cider £2.80 Rating 1/5

454/460 Mitcham Junction: Croydon Tram. Seems all the pubs round here - Ravensbury, The Golden Lion have been turned into Indian restaurants, so I have to pop into a Toby Carvery. Been years since I’ve been in one of these. Bit early for a full roast dinner though. Half cider £2.80 Rating 2/5

453/460 Beddington Lane: Croydon Tram. So much walking! You’d think with a big industrial estate here, there’d be some pubs so people could unwind after work. Nope. Back in the Harvest Home - weird name for a pub - and have some pork scratchings for lunch. What a life. Half cider £2.50 Eating 2/5

452/460 Therapia Lane: Croydon Tram. A trek but The Plough 1.5m away seems closest. Luckily I see The Home Harvest earlier. Wish I had set up a local company selling St George flags, I could probably retire. Everyone’s friendly though. Probably cos I’ve got a shaved head. Half cider £2.50 Rating 2/5

451/460 Ampere Way: Croydon Tram. Woohoo I get to stay in The Golden Lion for another so I can play with their dogs! Say hello to Buddy, Winter and Bonnie. Very good dogs. As @gregwtravels.bsky.social says, should have invited the sad dog from Wandle Park to cheer him up. Half cider £2:50 Rating 3/5

450/460 Waddon Marsh: Croydon Tram. Stumped getting off here. Middle of a big retail park and no pubs anywhere. First time in 350 stations I ask for help. Cheers @fishmcneill.bsky.social for The Golden Lion recco. Greeted by 3 of the best dogs ever, immediate extra mark. Half cider £2.50 Rating 3/5

Any reccos for pubs in Waddon Marsh?? Looks a struggle

449/460 Wandle Park: Croydon Tram. Walking into the Wandle Arms, the first word that comes to mind is ‘bleak’. Tiny pub with miserable barman and a couple of depressed looking old men quietly supping their drinks waiting for the end. Even has Britain’s Most Mournful Dog. Half cider £2.10 Rating 0/5

448/460 Reeves Corner: Croydon Tram. Reeves Corner is named after the shop House of Reeves which no one outside Croydon knew till it got burnt down during the riots of 2011. Fuck me, that was 15 years ago! How time flies. Anyway I’m back in The Dog. Worse places to be. Half cider £3.35 Rating 3/5

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Only 13 left but the TfL map still has lots of unhighlighted stations because of Thameslink. So I have just emailed Sadiq Khan to ask him if he thinks I should do it. I genuinely think I’m having a breakdown

447/460 Sandilands: Croydon Tram. Finally The Alma Tavern is open. It’s actually not bad. Dunno why you’d sit outside and watch the traffic but the insides pretty decent. I imagine it will be less decent in 5 hours time when Crystal Palace have thrown away a 3 goal lead. Half cider £2.65 Rating 3/5

446/460 Lebanon Road: Croydon Tram. Finally, The Cricketers is open. It’s quite a decent pub but with excess unnecessary wood panelling. Fella speaking at the top of his voice about how shit his life is. When I do a top 10 of annoying characters he’s going straight in. Half cider £3.00 Rating 3/5

445/460 East Croydon: Croydon Tram. My mate Dave grew up here and we arranged to meet up but he had to work instead. I was tempted to repeat the horribly misogynistic tram sex story he told me, but he has a good job and could be cancelled. Porter & Sorter is great though. Half cider £2.90 Rating 4/5

444/460 Wellesley Road: Difficulty with this loop is trying to avoid the same pubs again and again. I do well though as Slug & Lettuce is marginally closer than Wetherspoons. £3.70 for a fucking half though. No wonder it’s dead. All back to Spoons! Half cider £3.70 Rating 3/5 only cos it’s clean

443/460 Centrale: Croydon Tram. How do we make our shopping centre sound way more posh than it is? Dunno, stick an E at the end? Ooh, Centrale!! Fancy! Back in the Old Fox and Hounds which I did when I did West Croydon. Could, and should be a great pub. But it’s not. Half cider £2.70 Rating 2/5

442/460 Church Street: Croydon Tram. All go here as Pound Stores battles it out with Poundstretcher, and a convenience store sells live crabs. The Dog, Croydons oldest pub is a nice surprise, but calling itself a proper pub for proper people is a bit League of Gentlemen. Half cider £3:35 Rating 3/5

441/460 George Street: Croydon Tram. Fucks sake, the pub at Sandilands opens at 3 and the one on Lebanon Road opens at 4! Who’d have thought the people of Croydon were too busy for drinking. You can always rely on a Wetherspoons though, predictably packed at 1:30pm. Half cider = £1.45 Rating 2/5

440/460 Cutty Sark: DLR. Cutty Sarks finally reopened with fancy new escalators. Fuck me they cost £4mill!All this way for a bloody Spoons The Gate Clock, so I make the most of it and go for a half at The Spanish Galleon too which is closest to a different exit. Half cider £1.45 & £3.60 Rating 2&4/5

439/460 Birkbeck: Croydon Tram. Next to station is Grace’s. Named after WG Grace who’s buried in the cemetery next door. As is Thomas Crapper and Samuel Rowbottom, credited with the modern revival of the flat earth theory. So he’s the reason your builder is insane. Half cider £2.60 Rating 2/5

438/460 Harrington Road: Croydon Tram. I said I’d never come back to The Elm Tree when I visited for Elmer’s End. Shows how well I know the Tram. Worse pubs to visit tho. I gave it 3 last time and if had known how shit the other pubs would be, I would have given it a 4. Half cider £3.10 Rating 3/5

437/460 Arena:Croydon Tram. Named after South Norwood’s “live music venue, nightclub, multifunctional community and event space”. Nearest pub is The Portland Arms. Might be the best on tramline so far. Bright open space with big beer garden. Weirdly loads of flies though. Half cider £2.90 Rating 3/5

436/460 Woodside: Croydon Tram. No pubs round these parts so it’s back to The Joiners Arms. Get pulled in to watching GB News. John Kettley on talking about the weather. Does that make him a racist? Anyway, Tom Harwood seems like a fucking moron so I drink up and leave. Half cider £3.00 Rating 2/5

435/460 Blackhorse Lane: Croydon Tram. Low bar but this is the best part of Croydon so far. Blackhorse Lane is ok - shout out to Coughlans Bakery - and the Joiners Arms is a decent old fashioned style country pub. Loses a mark for GB News on the telly though. Fucking hell Half cider £3:00 Rating 2/5

434/460 Addiscombe: Croydon Tram. Good start as a mad lady screams at me, “are you trying to break into my house?” She then goes into the estate agents and asks the same. The tram line really keeps giving. The Claret & Ale is surprisingly decent though. So that’s a bonus. Half cider £2.55 Rating 3/5

Happy cheap Easter Egg day to all who celebrate.

In a pub. An old man’s pub. Music playing. It’s Crazy Frog. Laughy cryey emoji

They’ll be dancing in the streets of West Acton tonight

429/460 Fieldway: Croydon Tram. Surely things can’t get worse… Oh, ok then. I arrive at The Randall Tavern and there’s an unconscious man with an empty bottle of vodka at his feet. Oh and he has no shoes on. Barmaids friendly though and we have a chuckle at the alcoholic. Half cider £2.60 Rating 0/5

433/460 Lloyd Park: Croydon Tram. Fucks sake, the nearest pub is back to the Wetherspoons. Only a ten min walk but against the clock now as I have to be in work in a bit. Having said that doing the whole New Addington branch in one day might be the achievement of my life. Half cider £1.05 Rating 2/5

432/460 Coombe Lane: Croydon Tram. You know it’s been a bad day when you see a Spoons and breathe a sigh of relief. This one’s weird. It’s like a country manor, transformed into a tatty pub. Not sure who’s booking the Premier Inn next door. Old men meeting fancy escorts? Half cider £1.05 Rating 2/5

431/460 Gravel Hill: Croydon Tram. Leave the safety of Harvesters for The Kingsmen in Gravel Hill. A suggestion, don’t have a sign saying “come as guests, leave as friends” if when I walk in to your rank fucking pub, you look at me as if you want to glass me in the face. Half cider £2.65 Rating 0/5

430/460 Addington Village: Croydon Tram. Surely a village should have a post office? Maybe a greengrocers or a butchers. This seems to have a Shell garage and that’s it. It does have a Dixon of Dock Green style police station though. And I feel safe in the Harvesters. Half cider £2.60 Rating 1/5

429/460 Fieldway: Croydon Tram. Surely things can’t get worse… Oh, ok then. I arrive at The Randall Tavern and there’s an unconscious man with an empty bottle of vodka at his feet. Oh and he has no shoes on. Barmaids friendly though and we have a chuckle at the alcoholic. Half cider £2.60 Rating 0/5

428/460 King Henry’s Drive: Croydon Tram. Gutted that The Alwyn Club (see pic) has closed down, that looked mint. Means I have to head back to The Man On The Moon. On the bright side I’m glad I’m doing this at lunchtime. I dread to think what it’s like at 10pm. Half cider = £2.45 Rating still 0/5

427/460 New Addington: Croydon Tram. Good news. Next to the stop is a park with weird animal carvings. Bad news, the busy parade of shops has no pub. Worst news, I have to walk to The Man On The Moon. If Farage was a pub he would be the Man On The Moon. It is horrific. Half cider £2.45 Rating 0/5

426/460 Avenue Road: Croydon Tram. Sinking feeling as I get off the tram. Very suburban which means I have to walk all the way back to the Moon & Stars. Fucks sake, it’s like the DLR all over again. I take advantage of the all day breakfast so a pint is proper cheap. Pint cider £1.53 Rating 1/5

425/460 Beckenham Road: Croydon Tram. Just outside The Moon & Stars I spot The Pawleyne Arms. I went there when I did Anerley and its like the end of Usual Suspects when everything falls into place for Chazz Palminteri. I know where I am! First Tram Spoons too. Hurrah! Half cider £1.00 Rating 1/5

424/460 Beckenham Junction: Croydon Tram. Lovely to get a recco of where to go, but we all know the rules. Closest wins, so I’m in O’Neills. Fair dos it might be the best one I’ve ever been to..but tallest dwarf and all that. Beer garden overlooks a really busy main road. Half cider £2.60 Rating 2/5