With all the noise being made about longer Thameslink trains in the
coming months, it turns out that even when the remaining Southern 319s
and new 377/5s are fully acquired in March 2009, there will *still* be 6
evening peak services in 4-car formation as follows:


NORTHBOUND
1507 Brighton - Bedford (departs St Pancras 1636)
1534 Sevenoaks – Bedford (departs St Pancras 1646)
1537 Brighton – Bedford (departs St Pancras 1706)

SOUTHBOUND
1711 London Bridge - Brighton
1738 Kentish Town – Three Bridges (departs Blackfriars 1754)
1842 London Bridge – Brighton


A fair bit of retiming is involved, and I think I heard that the
aforementioned ex-LBG services are *very* overcrowded at least as far as
East Croydon (and are probably the worst of the remaining 4-car bunch).
If that's true, then I wonder why the 377/5 order wasn't increased
further...