On 1 June, 11:36, Mr Thant
wrote:
On 1 June, 11:10, wrote:

I suppose it will depend on how many metro services run via Elephant
and Castle, as this is the route which will retain the short platforms
south of the river.

The plan is to send as many London Bridge services as possible via
Thameslink, so there's likely to be only 6 tph via Elephant, as
proposed by the South London RUS. 6x 8 carriages (48) for the inner
stations is no improvement on today, and also means 10x 12 carriages
(120) on the outer services, which is probably an overprovision, and
more than there'll be fast paths for on the MML.

U

The DfT Invitation to Tender for the replacement Thameslink stock has
the following diagrams:

59 x 240m trains (= 12 car) and 54 x 160m trains (=8 car). The 160m
trains are split into 15 inner configuration and 39 outer
configuration diagrams (the difference being provision of first class
in the outer units). So, a sizeable quantity of the longer distance
trains will be 8 cars, rather than becoming 12 cars with some of these
will be on the via London Bridge route.

There is also an option to extend the 160m units to 200m to make 10
car equivalent trains (or also to extend to 240m).