On Jun 6, 3:07*pm, Sky Rider wrote:
MIG wrote:
Will we get 12-car trains on Thameslink before we get them on "Kent
Link"?

Network Rail are planning to introduce 12-car services on all
Southeastern suburban routes via London Bridge around 2011/2012 - check
out Chapter 7 of the South London Route Utilisation Strategy.

BR planned them for 1993/4. The work included closing Charing Cross
for three weeks and diversion of trains to Cannon Street, Blackfriars
and Victoria.

The special timetable during that period was more interesting than
most of the grinding disruption and closure over a couple of years,
but it resulted in peak-hour trains shortening from 10 coaches of slam-
door stuff to 8 or 6-coach "Networkers" (and it took years for average
peak lengths to get near to what they were in 1992).

So, with another dowturn on the way, my response to any such plan is
"I'll believe it when I see it". On past evidence, trains are due to
get shorter again, not longer, but they may have yet more long
platforms for punters to have to chase them to the wrong end of.


http://tinyurl.com/2k29zc

But the Moorgate branch will sure as hell close, and
there will be huge disruption for the pointless work.

It will be pointless (well sort-of), but not in the way I think you
meant.