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Old September 15th 04, 12:02 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Blockade of cross London Thameslink services from Saturday 11th September 2004 until 2005

Clive Page wrote in message ...
In article , D7666
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Why ask such a question ?

Since BedPan / Thameslink electrification WH PSB has sucessfully
managed to run the same railway for 15 years without routing HST to
Moorgate - or 319s to Junction Road Junction or any other
non-electrified diverging route, why would you except this happen now.


The sort of comment you have made is what leads to uninformed nonsense
appearing on the media after an accident.


But about a year ago one of the WH signallers did manage to route a
Thameslink train across a non-electrified cross-over near Flitwick. As
a result services were badly disrupted for around 24 hours, and I got
home a couple of hours late.


I remember that day well. My 2-car 158 from Leicester to Birmingham
was absolutely crush loaded.