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Old November 11th 11, 01:58 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
Neil Williams Neil Williams is offline
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Default Thameslink up the spout again - sig problem twixt Cricklewood and Radlett

On Nov 11, 2:36*pm, "Mizter T" wrote:

A plan is being put together for services to run as follows:
City Thameslink to Sutton, London Bridge to Brighton, Bedford to Luton.

Bus replacement as follows,
St Albans to Hatfield, Luton/Luton Airport Parkway to Hitchin, Bedford to St
Neots.


Going to be hard to get enough buses to do that! (It's a bit
different if you get a problem like this in the morning, as those with
an option to work from home usually will when faced with that kind of
disruption).

If trains are running Bedford-Luton, might a better answer be to
bustitute (taxi-stitute, more like) Bedford-Bletchley local stations,
get some DMUs down from somewhere (LM got any spare 150s that haven't
cascaded yet?) and run a 4-car shuttle Bedford-Bletchley as frequently
as possible, with stop orders at Bletchley for all LM services that
don't presently stop there?

Neil