On 4 Jun, 23:35, MIG wrote:

On 4 Jun, 21:29, Mizter T wrote:

On 4 Jun, 20:44, wrote:

"Mr Thant" wrote:

It wouldn't be very useful. The interim arrangement is more about
having somewhere to send the peak services from the north with the
Moorgate branch gone. There's not really anywhere to terminate them,
so running them through as services to Kent (replacing the SET
Blackfriars services) is the only real option.

It's being shut. The platforms at Farringdon can't be extended to 12-
car length without fouling the junction towards Moorgate, so the
branch will be closed.

There are various suggestions here and elsewhere about the alignment
being used for stabling LU trains given that it's adjacent to the Met/
Circle/H&C, though nothing official.

Will we get 12-car trains on Thameslink before we get them on "Kent
Link"?

For a second there I thought you were coining a snazzy new phrase for
these quasi-Thameslink Kentish Town terminators which will come up
from Sevenoaks (and currently only get as far as Blackfriars).

But then I realised you were giving us a history lesson of how things
don't always work out as they should.


Another incomplete set of platform extensions on the way (plus the
closure of a route)

But another economic downturn will mean that some stations won't get
extended, the proposed frequency won't happen and trains will remain
eight coaches. But the Moorgate branch will sure as hell close, and
there will be huge disruption for the pointless work.


What a delightfully bleak view!

Thameslink 2000 seems to be a pretty committed project. As for
Crossrail...