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Liked dinosaurs as a kid? Or as an adult? This is the Slow Way for you. To begin with you follow the Green Chain Walk and Capital Ring signs past the Crystal Palace Park's Victorian dinosaur statues to Penge East Station. Don't follow the signs over the footbridge but continue round, going past the “Royal Naval Asylum”, the Alexandra Pub and the Alexandra (plant) Nursery on some quieter residential streets. (Edit: This is to avoid the footbridge which I had forgotten to mention, but quieter roads and a very nice pub don't hurt). 500m on slightly busy Lennard Road takes you to Cator Park and then it's a mile or so through leafy Beckenham, past Waitrose and you're at the station.

In the middle third there are 3 buses to jump onto, you pass Penge East Station and you could get to 2 others with a short walk. Plus Penge West Station in the first third, and more buses. The route avoids the stairs over the train tracks, but isn't entirely step free as oddly there didn't seem to be a kerb free route out of Crystal Palace Park to the south. There's also one very steep path inside the park, buggy pushers don't seem to be put off although there's a gentler slope beside the almost-parallel access road for the stadium

Liked dinosaurs as a kid? Or as an adult? This is the Slow Way for you. To begin with you follow the Green Chain Walk and Capital Ring signs past the Crystal Palace Park's Victorian dinosaur statues to Penge East Station. Don't follow the signs over the footbridge but continue round, going past the “Royal Naval Asylum”, the Alexandra Pub and the Alexandra (plant) Nursery on some quieter residential streets. (Edit: This is to avoid the footbridge which I had forgotten to mention, but quieter roads and a very nice pub don't hurt). 500m on slightly busy Lennard Road takes you to Cator Park and then it's a mile or so through leafy Beckenham, past Waitrose and you're at the station.

In the middle third there are 3 buses to jump onto, you pass Penge East Station and you could get to 2 others with a short walk. Plus Penge West Station in the first third, and more buses. The route avoids the stairs over the train tracks, but isn't entirely step free as oddly there didn't seem to be a kerb free route out of Crystal Palace Park to the south. There's also one very steep path inside the park, buggy pushers don't seem to be put off although there's a gentler slope beside the almost-parallel access road for the stadium