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Signs and portents (well, a map, anyway)
Lew 1 wrote:
All of which will pass through Farringdon, though. And vice versa, every train which passes through Farringdon will be on the Thameslink route. Makes no difference, the name "Thameslink" refers to Brighton / Sutton to Bedford. Er, what? That's what it refers to now, sure. When trains are running from King's Lynn to Guildford or whatever, it'll refer to those too. I would argue that from the travelling public's point of view, it won't refer to those services at all. Since the name is not advertised to the general public much (if at all), and the Train Operating Company are called Capital Connect, I suspect the new combined service will become known as Capital Connect. The official name of the line in the middle of it all won't be heavily used, and so shouldn't be used for station directional signage, after all LU don't sign "West Coast Mainline" anywhere. National Rail or First Capital Connect is perfectly sufficient for signage, and as it happens, I prefer the former. That's fine except where you need to distinguish between FCC services that terminate in London and those that don't. For example, at King's Cross St Pancras or (currently) Moorgate. In those cases, "Thameslink" is a useful label for the through services. How else would you want your line to be identified if you were bound for, say, Cricklewood and needed to find the right platform having emerged from the Northern Line at either KXSP or Moorgate? Indeed, on the FCC site, it says "With only a short walk between King’s Cross and St Pancras International, First Capital Connect customers [arriving at King's Cross from Cambridge etc.] can not only access the Eurostar terminal with ease, but can also reach other destinations on the Thameslink route ...". (Though, if you follow the link to "Download connections map", it leads to the old map with King's Cross Thameslink on it!) -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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