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Default Why did Thameslink by-pass Crystal Palace?

Don't get me wrong: I don't want thameslink to come through Crystal
Palace or Gipsy Hill, but I might like some other lines to be extended
and so I wander why now that so many other stations in South London
get thameslink trains stopping, these stations get none?

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On 6 Feb, 11:28, Alec 1SJ wrote:
Don't get me wrong: I don't want thameslink to come through Crystal
Palace or Gipsy Hill, but I might like some other lines to be extended
and so I wander why now that so many other stations in South London
get thameslink trains stopping, these stations get none?


I'm sure there was a time in the early 1990s when Thameslink switched
between the Crystal Palace route and the Selhurst route towards West
Croydon, all before it took over the Wimbledon loop and stopped going
to West Croydon.
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Alec 1SJ wrote:

Don't get me wrong: I don't want thameslink to come through Crystal
Palace or Gipsy Hill


The last time I was on a Thameslink train, I boarded at East Croydon.
passed through CP & GH, then Tulse Hill, en route to Elephant & Castle,
where SWMBO boarded, and we got off at Luton. It seemed all to be done
in slow motion.
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On 6 Feb, 12:09, Chris Tolley (ukonline
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Alec 1SJ wrote:
Don't get me wrong: I don't want thameslink to come through Crystal
Palace or Gipsy Hill


The last time I was on a Thameslink train, I boarded at East Croydon.
passed through CP & GH, then Tulse Hill, en route to Elephant & Castle,
where SWMBO boarded, and we got off at Luton. It seemed all to be done
in slow motion.
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Oh yes, that's the peak route for services to Brighton, which
generally wouldn't be stopping anywhere anyway.

But the "metro" type service, before it took over the Wimbledon loop,
used to include a stopping service to West Croydon, which for a while
went via Crystal Palace and for a while went via Selhurst.
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On Feb 6, 12:09*pm, Chris Tolley (ukonline
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Alec 1SJ wrote:
Don't get me wrong: I don't want thameslink to come through Crystal
Palace or Gipsy Hill


The last time I was on a Thameslink train, I boarded at East Croydon.
passed through CP & GH, then Tulse Hill, en route to Elephant & Castle,
where SWMBO boarded, and we got off at Luton. It seemed all to be done
in slow motion.


Thameslink services from Brighton are routed that way during the peaks
to avoid London Bridge, which is too crowded.


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On 6 Feb, 12:59, (Paul Cummins) wrote:
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(MIG) wrote:
I'm sure there was a time in the early 1990s when Thameslink
switched between the Crystal Palace route and the Selhurst route
towards West Croydon, all before it took over the Wimbledon loop and
stopped going to West Croydon.


I swear I recll Thameslink services going right out to Guildford once as
well?


Looks like alternate services continuing from West Croydon to
Guildford till May 1994.

I have gaps in my clutter though.
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Mizter T wrote:

On Feb 6, 12:09*pm, Chris Tolley (ukonline
really) wrote:

Alec 1SJ wrote:
Don't get me wrong: I don't want thameslink to come through Crystal
Palace or Gipsy Hill


The last time I was on a Thameslink train, I boarded at East Croydon.
passed through CP & GH, then Tulse Hill, en route to Elephant & Castle,
where SWMBO boarded, and we got off at Luton. It seemed all to be done
in slow motion.


Thameslink services from Brighton are routed that way during the peaks
to avoid London Bridge, which is too crowded.


Quite, but having to cross so many other routes doesn't make it exactly
quick. The train I was on seemed to stand at Tulse Hill for ages.
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On Feb 6, 11:28*am, Alec 1SJ wrote:
Don't get me wrong: I don't want thameslink to come through Crystal
Palace or Gipsy Hill, but I might like some other lines to be extended
and so I wander why now that so many other stations in South London
get thameslink trains stopping, these stations get none?


I think this is a very valid question.

I have long been of the opinion that the *current* TL operation (never
mind who the franchise holder is) before TL2000 / TLP came along is
too restrictive in that there are 2 patterns of 4 TPH i.e. Bedford
Brighton and Luton/Snorbens - Sutton. Back in NSe / BR TOU days there
was a wider range of stations served like Guildford and Sevenoaks and
those got taken away. That was a great loss in my view. I would have
had least 4 route / station calling patterns south of Thames -
probably 4 routes each 2 TPH that grouped through the core to the 2 x
4 TPH to the north.

Of course TL can't serve every station - but I do think there should
have been a greater range in ''metro'' destinations served in the
current operation, and should be served under TLP rather than longer
distance routes. TL will forever be a heavy metro operation through
the core not a fast regional link and I think it would be better off
focussing on being a sort of large overground contributing to London
suburban routes rather than an extended network of cross linked
regional services.

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On Feb 6, 6:21*pm, D7666 wrote:

On Feb 6, 11:28*am, Alec 1SJ wrote:
Don't get me wrong: I don't want thameslink to come through Crystal
Palace or Gipsy Hill, but I might like some other lines to be extended
and so I wander why now that so many other stations in South London
get thameslink trains stopping, these stations get none?


I think this is a very valid question.

I have long been of the opinion that the *current* TL operation (never
mind who the franchise holder is) before TL2000 / TLP came along is
too restrictive in that there are 2 patterns of 4 TPH i.e. Bedford
Brighton and Luton/Snorbens - Sutton. Back in NSe / BR TOU days there
was a wider range of stations served like Guildford and Sevenoaks and
those got taken away. That was a great loss in my view. I would have
had least 4 route / station calling patterns south of Thames -
probably 4 routes each *2 TPH that grouped through the core to the 2 x
4 TPH to the north.

Of course TL can't serve every station - but I do think there should
have been *a greater range in ''metro'' destinations served in the
current operation, and should be served under TLP rather than longer
distance routes. TL will forever be a heavy metro operation through
the core not a fast regional link and I think it would be better off
focussing on being a sort of large overground contributing to London
suburban routes rather than an extended network of cross linked
regional services.


Agreed about your broad point, no doubt - but where possible/ feasible
I think 4tph should be the goal for metro-esque services, perhaps
instead of 2tph here and 2tph there - at a 4tph level of frequency it
turns it into a turn-up-and-go proposition. Obviously if other routes
are 4tph then interchanging between the two becomes a more attractive
option. (Nothing I'm saying is remotely original, I know, and I
wouldn't wish to claim it was!)


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