In message , at 23:55:32 on
Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Charles Ellson remarked:

The railway press seems to have missed this completely.

https://www.barnet.gov.uk/citizen-ho...et/brent-cross
-cricklewood/brent-cross-thameslink.html

Four platforms - when was the last time a new station opened with four
platforms?

I wonder how often trains will stop at the fast up/down platforms?

As often as they stop at West Hampstead on the fast lines ?

Why West Hampstead and not Cricklewood?

Up to 6 per hour outside the peaks and maybe more when things go wrong.
Putting only two platforms in at a new station in this area could leave
it in danger of effective isolation when the slow lines are
unavailable.

I'm not suggesting they put in only two platforms, rather that two of
them will see very little usage, and it's therefore much more of a "two
platform" station.

Even if it had as many Thameslink trains stopping on the fast platforms
as Luton Airport Parkway, that's only six a day up and ten down.
--
Roland Perry