On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Clive Page wrote:

In article ,
eurostardriver writes

Kentish Town or West Hampstead provide useful interchanges onto LUL,
but some clever person has decided Thameslink services will not call
at these stations between 07.30 and 09.30 to prevent overcrowding.
Doesn't make much sense to me as this means all passengers will be
forced into the Kings Cross/St Pancras area making the overcrowding
there 3 times worse.

I quite agree: it seems quite crazy.

It does, but ...

Can anyone think of the real reason for this closure?

.... TfL claim they've done traffic modelling, and the loads on those
stations would be too high. I suspect they know more about the flows than
we do, and so are in a position to make this judgement.

tom

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