On Nov 16, 6:34 pm, wrote:

Will the Kentish Town platforms remain limited to 8 car under the full
Thameslink improvements - I see there is a fair amount of lengthening now
happening at stations northwards to Elstree...

Don't know - the site is very space constrained so platform extensions
could be difficult. Again according to Quail, 2 and 3 are 10 cars long
anyway, so SDO may be sufficient. Don't know if that would be
acceptable for 1, which is 8 car.


Kentish Town will remain 8 car platforms under the full and final
scheme.

There are no plans to convert to it to 12 car platforms. The bridges
and structures at either end of the station are too substantial to
alter. This was known in some internal documents - but has since been
confirmed, and placed in the FAQ of the thameslink program web site
after I prompted them to do so:

http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk...ex#question_42

It does prove they are listening to public questions ... and producing
an answer - even though it may not be the answer that everyone wants.

In a more detailed response to myself I asked about possible SDO
because my thoughts were if Kentish Town is limited permanently to
8car how much impact will that have overall i.e. will there still be 4
TPH 8car trains in the long term. They replied that SDO is not ruled
out ... but no decision has been made on this yet ... and IMHO does
not need to be made for some time.

--
Nick