On Apr 11, 10:53*am, Boltar wrote:
I never understood why it was part of it in the first place.
Thameslink was supposed to be a north to south express route. Not a
north to obscure-suburb-in-sw-london local train. I mean why Sutton?
Why not Wandsworth or Dulwich or Chessington or ..... If anyone
suggested the northbound thameslink had a terminus at Barnet everyone
would laugh, but for some reason if its in south london no ones bats
an eyelid.
You are right up to a point. Thameslink fused not only semi fasts
from Bedford,Luton and Saint Albans to Brighton etc but also locals
starting in the main at Saint Albans. Although many of these ran
through to Moorgate following the Old Widened lines train patterns -
some ran through to Blackfriars - going straight on to the Sutton loop
was just a convenience when the peak hour traffic through London
Bridge was blocked. With the recasting of Blackfriars terminal
platforms - it makes sense to change the arrangements. IIRC at some
stage there was a plan to run the ELL through to East Dulwich before
Clapham Junction became the south London station of choice- hence my
suggestion for a partial ELLX transfer..