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[email protected] · April 7th 09, 09:49 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

wrote on 07 April 2009 19:38:14 ...
In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
On Apr 7, 11:17 am, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at
03:56:22 on Tue, 7 Apr 2009,
remarked:

I think a plausible scenario is:
- Cambridge/King's Lynn/Peterborough fasts: 5+5 car IEP to
King's Cross
- Cambridge semi-fast/Welwyn stopping services: 12-car Thameslink
- Hertford Loop: High-frequency semi-segregated service to
Moorgate
So no useful Cambridge-Gatwick services after all. :-(

What's wrong with the semi-fasts? The Gatwick services are going to
be pretty slow from SPILL to Gatwick, so adding a few minutes north
of SPILL isn't the end of the world.

The Thameslink services are going to be non-stop from London Bridge
to East Croydon, then non-stop again to Gatwick - so what makes them
pretty slow south of SPILL, the trudge through the 'Thameslink
core'?
I'm kind of expecting that the core section will pick up some speed
after (at least some of) the works have been done.

The eventual KO2 work to provide dedicated through routes west of,
at, and east of London Bridge should also make things speed up a
bit; however the journey should still be fairly attractive compared
with a trip on the tube to Victoria, especially with luggage -
unless you conveniently ignore all the underground walking time,
and assume all the connections are instant...

I'm basing current estimates on observation. I got a TL train
from Brighton only to meet arriving at the same time as me at
King's Cross someone who had left Brighton after me and taken the
tube from Victoria.

Did you never learn punctuation, or is there a world shortage of commas?

Pah!

Having now understood what you are saying, I see that you are only
measuring the time to from Brighton to King's Cross, not the time
to Cambridge, which would not include a change at King's Cross for
the future Thameslink route, so it's not comparable. Also, as
Paul Scott pointed out, the change at Victoria is less attractive
if you have luggage for the holiday you are flying to from Gatwick.

Yes, I realise that.

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Colin Rosenstiel