On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Mr Thant wrote:

On Jun 13, 3:09 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:
Reading between the lines at:

http://www.alwaystouchout.com/project/23

Which part are you looking at?

The list under "service pattern".

The list under "service pattern" includes:

# Bedford - London Bridge - Brighton (4tph)
# Luton - Elephant & Castle - Sutton, Wimbledon (4tph)
clockwise via Sutton then Wimbledon (2tph)
anticlockwise via Wimbledon then Sutton (2tph)

Which I believe is the same as the current basic service pattern,
although without seeing calling patterns it's hard to say.

I assumed as much.

Right - and all the added services are long-distance ones which are very
unlikely to call at Kentish Town, and won't go anyhwere near Elephant.

The "St Albans - Elephant & Castle - Sevenoaks" train is new, and
could conceivably call at both.

I assumed it would, given that existing St Albans trains are local, and
Sevenoaks is a similar sort of distance to Sutton. That service is 2 tph,
so we get 6 tph total local trains; the other 18 tph are express.

If you actually want to go from KX to Blackfriars, then i would certainly
agree that Thameslink is probably your best bet. However, if you want to
go from somewhere-north-of-KX to somewhere-south-of-Blackfriars, it
probably isn't part of your route of choice.

No. Especially if you're trying get to Kentish Town and you board a St
Albans express, which I've obviously never done.

Splendid, glad to hear it. Even if you had made that entirely hypothetical
mistake, it could be worse - you could have done so and then fallen
asleep ...

tom

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