On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:45:37 -0000
"Recliner" wrote:
What a ****ing idiotic decision this is. That branch was used by a
LOT of people who are now going to have to crowd onto a packed tube
train to do
the last mile of their journey. All so they can lengthen Farringdons
platform. What the hell for? Why couldn't they just do the same as
the do in dozens of other places around the country and just say that
to get out at farringdon you have to be in the first 8 cars of the
new 12 car trains?

The flat junction at Farringdon would not allow the increase in
frequency on the Thameslink line.

Of course it would. How long does a train take to traverse it - 20 seconds?
That was just another excuse they came up with to justify closing the branch.

B2003