"Clive Page" wrote in message
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The South Central rail company has an advertisement in one of our local
newspapers trying to recruit staff for their new maintenance depot in
Bedford, of all places. Can they really be serious - it means a dead
train has to be pushed (or pulled) for at least 50 miles over the
supposedly fully occupied Thameslink tracks to get fixed?

I suppose the next logical step is for Thameslink trains to get
maintained in Swindon or maybe Crewe?

The new depot is a Thameslink depot. It will be used in lieu of Selhurst
whilst the Thameslink network is split in two next year, whilst the new St.
Pancras Midland Road station is constructed and the Channel Tunnel links are
created. South Central maintenance will continue to be carried out at
Selhurst, as will maintenance of Thameslink stock operating the southern end
of the route. Bedford will operate as an outstation of Selhurst, maintaining
Thameslink stock operating the northern end of the route.