Peter Lawrence wrote:
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:46:46 +0100, 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.......

Can anyone think of the real reason for this closure?

It was an LU ploy to get a larger proportion of the fares??

Hardly. Regular commuters travelling onwards from St Pancras by tube
will have a Travelcard anyway; people travelling to West Hampstead &
Kentish Town are permitted to travel in to St Pancras and return by a
northbound train during the closure.

Irregular users travelling between Thameslink and LU stations would have
to pay a higher proportion of their fare to LU by using West Hampstead
or Kentish Town as these are both in Zone 2.

I don't think LU would get a noticeably higher proportion of fares
whether West Hampstead and Kentish Town were open to southbound TL pax
or not!

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
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