In message , at 15:01:52 on Fri, 9
Dec 2011, Walter Briscoe remarked:

I am not surprised there has been some slip in a 3 year program.

Cough! Splutter! It's called Thameslink 2000, not Thameslink 2018 (the
latest date I think it's supposed to be finished). These people
*invented* slippage.
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Roland Perry