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Old February 8th 10, 11:26 AM posted to uk.transport.london
David Cantrell David Cantrell is offline
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Default Why did Thameslink by-pass Crystal Palace?

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:56:53PM -0000, Yokel wrote:

A similar thing happened with the "Anglia" experiment to Basingstoke. Nice
idea, but absolutely lousy pathing and much too slow to attract any
significant custom.


If you think that was bad, try Basingstoke to York. Not only did it
take forever, but the one time when I didn't book in advance, I found
that it would be cheaper to use a taxi.

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