On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:19:09 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

There is an idea that trains could run from the Thameslink core to
Cambridge, or at least on to some part of the Great Northern route, via
a junction just north of St Pancras Low Level.

More than an idea.

What is the status of this idea? Is it a definite part of the Thameslink
masterplan?

Yes it is part of Thameslink 3,100,125 (sorry couldn't resist)

Has it been scrapped? Was it never more than conjecture? Have
i dreamed it up?

Not scrapped, it is more than conjecture.

So do we have a date for when services might run? Re-reading the Wikipedia
page, i see that they list the St Pancras works under KO2 [1]:

New permanent way (track level, in this case including both plain rail
and junctions) and overhead line equipment will be laid out in the new
Canal Tunnels just north of St Pancras between the Thameslink route and
the East Coast Main Line,[32] thereby opening up the Thameslink network
to new destinations north of Central London.

Which should finish in 2018. Would we expect service patterns to change
immediately?

Anyway, thanks for the responses, gents.

tom

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thamesl...282013-2018.29

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