On Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 6:45:10 PM UTC, D A Stocks wrote:
zin92 wrote in message
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On Saturday, 6 February 2016 10:36:56 UTC, Peter Smyth wrote:
zin92 wrote:

My understanding is that trains to and from Cannon Street will only
have two tracks available to them at London Bridge and there wouldn't
be enough capacity if trains stopped at London Bridge. Hence they'll
pass straight through instead. Whereas trains to and from Charing
Cross will have three tracks available to them which does provide
enough capacity to allow stopping.

However platforms 4-9 seem to be well on their way to completion and
so why can't trains to and from Charing Cross use platforms 7-9 and
trains to and From Cannon Street use platforms 4-6? This would mean
that Charing Cross and Cannon Street services would both have three
tracks available to them which would allow all services to stop at
London Bridge.

Thanks

Presumably because platforms 4-6 do not have any connection to Cannon
Street, only to Charing Cross or Blackfriars.

Peter Smyth

Thanks Peter. According to page 88 of the below document (Stage 3 - High
Level Station Works), Cannon Street can be reached from platforms 5 and 6:

http://www.infrarail.com/_downloads/...Thameslink.pdf

That's only a temporary connection while platforms 1-4 are (were?) being
rebuilt, and I assume it will have to be removed in order to connect
platforms 4-5 to Blackfriars. They need a minimum of 3 platforms available
to provide enough capacity for stopping services. The final layout will have
no connections between Cannon St and platforms 4-9.
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DAS

I'm only talking about a temporary connection between platforms 4-6 and Cannon Street from August 216 to December 2017. During this time, there won't be any services to Blackfriars. I'm trying to understand why all three of platforms 4-6 can't be used for services to/from Cannon Street during this time thus enabling trains to stop at London Bridge.

Regards