On 25 May, 11:07, "Paul Scott" wrote:
In a joined up world they could have had GN services running through to
destinations in the south east (and vice versa obviously) - and probably
more cost effective than joining the GN into Thameslink at St Pancras,
perhaps?

The central destinations available on Thameslink are far more
attractive than the ELL, and you'd have to build a flyover at the
Canonbury Curve junction if you wanted to run more than a couple of
trains an hour that way and not kill all other NLL traffic (Thameslink
2000 has 14 tph from the GN).

Having the outer-suburban services go through central-ish London and
the ELL act as a local service between SE/East/NE London makes a lot
more sense to me.

U