This is your (aging) train crew. I’m the bald one in the middle with my husband Bob on my right and my boss, Andy, co-ordinator of southwark cyclists on my left. We are pausing for thought near the BMX track in Burgess Park. We don’t think much so it was a short stop.

If we are spared by Hurricane Lulu, the Bike Train will run via QW1 this Wednesday. This Quietway is really quiet — lots of cyclists use it but traffic counts are very low. It crosses the approach roads to Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Southwark Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge and is a good way to get to all of them. Not that I am recommending London Bridge, although lots of people do use it, it wouldn’t be my first choice.

Quietway 1 passes quite close to Peckham but is slightly tricky to find. After that it’s well signposted, reasonably straight and widely used by cyclists as befits such a well constructed route. The only tricky bit is understanding that this quiet backstreet leads to other quiet backstreets and on to yet more quiet backstreets until you are there.

We start from outside Nunhead station at 7.45am and pick up riders at Peckham Rye Station (by the bike stands behind McDonalds) ten minutes later. We arrive at the river around 8.30am depending on which bridge or bridges get the nod.