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Old February 7th 10, 11:01 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Why did Thameslink by-pass Crystal Palace?

D7666 wrote:

Again this is why I think the existing TL route is and always be a
slow speed metro route thus is better off being a sort of overground
route.

24 TPH yes, attempting to serve most of the south coast and deepest
fenlands no.


If it wasn't for their marked reluctance to amend the future Thameslink
routes shown on the Thameslink programme website, we'd have a much better
picture of KO2. From the various RUSs, (and the Kent and Sussex published
last month are consistent with the earlier South London), attempting to
serve most of the south coast has been to all intents binned, but more
relevant to this thread, there are planned transfers of stopping services to
Thameslink yet to come, such as the 4 tph all stations on the Norwood Jn to
London Bridge route, which will be transferred from Southern. I believe the
4 tph from Orpington is basically a stopping service as well.

The question left hanging seems to be what the balancing all stations
service will be on the north side...

Paul S