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eurostardriver writes
Kentish Town or West Hampstead provide useful interchanges onto LUL,
but some clever person has decided Thameslink services will not call
at these stations between 07.30 and 09.30 to prevent overcrowding.
Doesn't make much sense to me as this means all passengers will be
forced into the Kings Cross/St Pancras area making the overcrowding
there 3 times worse.

I quite agree: it seems quite crazy. Only a proportion of Thameslink
commuters would surely want to use one of these, if they have a sensible
onward route via the Northern (Kentish Town) or Jubilee (West Hampstead)
lines, the others will continue to St.Pancras as it serves several other
lines, thus diluting the otherwise inevitable overload at Kings Cross LT
station. Both KT and WH stations seemed to cope quite well during the
periods when they acted as termini with *all* services stopping short of
Kings Cross/St.Pancras. Kentish Town has a good connection with quite
wide passageways and staircases; West Hampstead LT station is over 100
metres from the Thameslink station, which means that any rush when a
Thameslink train arrives will thin out as people walk along and across
the main road.

Can anyone think of the real reason for this closure?

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