Take Thameslink, for example, which stops and potentially stops at a lot
of
London stations. If the Mayor of London had sole rights to determine
stopping patterns in London, then he would, quite rightly for him and his
electors, choose patterns wanted by his constituents, which I would
imagine
would mean stopping all trains at all stops in Greater London. Thus those
passengers from outside London, e.g. Brighton and Bedford, would get a
massive deterioration in service.

Thameslink already has two quite separate services, the metro (via the
Sutton Loop), and the Bedford to Brighton. It would make perfect sense for
LOROL to control the metro service, but not the long distance. LOROL would
then take a chair at the timetabling meetings and negotiate paths liek
everyone else. LOROL can share lines with other services just like the
other TOCs do.
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Andrew
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