Please be aware that the low bridge on the South Circular at Tulse Hill just got LOWER. 
It used to be 13ft 9in and is now 13ft 6in due to resurfacing.
New bridge strike thread expected very soon 
If i remember correctly that on is on Iceland route, some funny diversion for them then and curious if / when someone hits it
There are 2 separate signed HGV diversions that take you the junction from the adjacent approach road. Adding maybe 30 seconds to your journey time.
Also Iâve never seen a bridge with so many âLOW BRIDGEâ signs strapped to it. I did think the last time I drove under it, âholy â â â â , how many times has this thing been struck?â to be decorated like this.
F-reds:
There are 2 separate signed HGV diversions that take you the junction from the adjacent approach road. Adding maybe 30 seconds to your journey time.Also Iâve never seen a bridge with so many âLOW BRIDGEâ signs strapped to it. I did think the last time I drove under it, âholy [zb], how many times has this thing been struck?â to be decorated like this.
Thatâs the one that was hit two weeks ago. They said in the radio it has been hit 2-3 times a week!
â â â â me! Really?
The âSouth Circularâ really is a misnomer, its a poxy road, couldnât believe it was a main route first time I was on it. But seriously hitting that bridge is the work of the blind, and the terminally stupid.
F-reds:
[zb] me! Really?
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While weâre on subject of bridge heights I see Blackwall tunnel northbound is 13 ft
blue estate:
While weâre on subject of bridge heights I see Blackwall tunnel northbound is 13 ft
As it has been for ages.
F-reds:
blue estate:
While weâre on subject of bridge heights I see Blackwall tunnel northbound is 13 ftAs it has been for ages.
And like the aforementioned bridge still gets hit
wing-nut:
Please be aware that the low bridge on the South Circular at Tulse Hill just got LOWER.
It used to be 13ft 9in and is now 13ft 6in due to resurfacing.New bridge strike thread expected very soon
I used to chicken out of going under that with a 13â9" tescos trailer.
I wonder if the very next person to hit it will be a snodland driver who thinks 13â9" goes into 13â6" now, and doesnât chicken out.
F-reds:
[zb] me! Really?The âSouth Circularâ really is a misnomer, its a poxy road, couldnât believe it was a main route first time I was on it. But seriously hitting that bridge is the work of the blind, and the terminally stupid.
Same here the first time I went on the Sth Circ,around Dulwich was like a spin around the countryside.Weird road and no mistake.
Ramon123:
F-reds:
[zb] me! Really?The âSouth Circularâ really is a misnomer, its a poxy road, couldnât believe it was a main route first time I was on it. But seriously hitting that bridge is the work of the blind, and the terminally stupid.
Same here the first time I went on the Sth Circ,around Dulwich was like a spin around the countryside.Weird road and no mistake.
What you drove through is the Dulwich College estate; itâs a posh boysâ school with acres of playing fields and some big posh houses surrounding it. Plus thereâs a public park on the other side of Dulwich Common (the road). The bit through Forest Hill doesnât look rural (to me, but I grew up in south London and travelled that way to visit my nan every week or so) but itâs hilly (past the Horniman Museum) and windy (through Forest Hill). They were going to build dual carriageways across south London at one point in the 80s, but there was a huge public outcry and it was abandoned.
Is that toll barrier still there on that Dulwich college estate?
Winseer:
Is that toll barrier still there on that Dulwich college estate?
Yes; thereâs also a 7â width limit at the gate.
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Winseer:
Is that toll barrier still there on that Dulwich college estate?Yes; thereâs also a 7â width limit at the gate.
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I last went through it whilst working driving a sherpa van - which just about got through.
The South Circular is a real pit-fall for unwary drivers though.
The North Circular is bad for anyone driving one of the taller double deckers, as itâs dualled in many places - with low bridgesâŚ
These Royal Mail hightops I used to drive are over 16 foot, and you canât afford to take a wrong turn at a roundabout like this guy did in GuildfordâŚ
You canât take a 16 footer into London at all - Iâd recommend. Tulse hill bridge is one of many it wonât get under on the South Circular, and on the north Circular - this one catches hightop drivers trying to get out of Stonebridge park in the Wembley directionâŚ
Winseer:
You canât take a 16 footer into London at all - Iâd recommend. Tulse hill bridge is one of many it wonât get under on the South Circular, and on the north Circular - this one catches hightop drivers trying to get out of Stonebridge park in the Wembley directionâŚ
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People do take 16-footers into London but theyâre usually on set routes (via the A40 in the case of the Royal Mail in Park Royal), mainly on night trunking runs to Birmingham area. There are definitely pallet depots in Croydon that use them; I see them a lot on the A3 heading to and from the M25.
IndigoJo:
Winseer:
You canât take a 16 footer into London at all - Iâd recommend. Tulse hill bridge is one of many it wonât get under on the South Circular, and on the north Circular - this one catches hightop drivers trying to get out of Stonebridge park in the Wembley directionâŚ
0People do take 16-footers into London but theyâre usually on set routes (via the A40 in the case of the Royal Mail in Park Royal), mainly on night trunking runs to Birmingham area. There are definitely pallet depots in Croydon that use them; I see them a lot on the A3 heading to and from the M25.
UK Mail trunk to the Midlands out of Greenford, Croydon & Canning Town depots, but you have to mindful of your route, and not blindly follow diversions,
I have argued with plod in the past when they are trying to send you down the A1 and round the 406 when the M25 has been closed,
Got a mate born and raised in central London, Westminster or similar and he rubbishes anything âsouth of the riverâ.
No surprise there.
One day it was the turn of the road network and he proudly reminded me of the north circular with its dual carriageway blah blah as opposed to the south circ which he very accurately described as being âa selection of joined up back streetsâ
Socketset:
and he proudly reminded me of the north circular with its dual carriageway blah blah as opposed to the south circ which he very accurately described as being âa selection of joined up back streetsâ
Itâs not back streets but local main roads, which conveniently run in a crescent shape from Clapham Common to quite near Woolwich, but it wasnât conceived as a circular road for cross-city traffic.
Where they did use a back street as a main road is Rochester Way (the old A2), which is a wide single carriageway most of the way from Kidbrooke to Falconwood but ran it straight through a residential street, as you can clearly see from this map.
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Toddy2:
IndigoJo:
Winseer:
You canât take a 16 footer into London at all - Iâd recommend. Tulse hill bridge is one of many it wonât get under on the South Circular, and on the north Circular - this one catches hightop drivers trying to get out of Stonebridge park in the Wembley directionâŚPeople do take 16-footers into London but theyâre usually on set routes (via the A40 in the case of the Royal Mail in Park Royal), mainly on night trunking runs to Birmingham area. There are definitely pallet depots in Croydon that use them; I see them a lot on the A3 heading to and from the M25.
UK Mail trunk to the Midlands out of Greenford, Croydon & Canning Town depots, but you have to mindful of your route, and not blindly follow diversions,
I have argued with plod in the past when they are trying to send you down the A1 and round the 406 when the M25 has been closed,
Yes, Iâve had this trouble when sent not just only down the M1 onto the 406, but then right at henlys continuing down the A1 through the archway into the centre - with luckily a 13â9" trailer so not too difficult to avoid the many railway bridges when one gets close to the rail terminii. Iâm not familiar with the Canning Town RM depot though - is that another new one?
On the A40 meanwhile, technically speaking - you canât âmiss the off-slipâ for Hangar Lane if youâre driving the white hightops. The underpass under hangar lane itself is marked out as 16 exactly. Anyone squeezed one through there yet? 
On the Rochester Way indigojo mentions - the above âoldâ route passed the cemetery at Falconwood (the bodies are still below the ânewâ road there!) come off at the 205 roundabout where the cinema was and then back down to the big roundabout where you could go past whatâs now a MacD (used to be a hotel/pub like the Black prince I think)
