On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Boltar wrote:

On Apr 11, 10:22 am, Mwmbwls wrote:

With the transfer of the Thameslink Sutton Loop services to other
south eastern destinations - and their termination at Blackfriars will
these service continue to be part of the Thameslink franchise or would

I never understood why it was part of it in the first place. Thameslink
was supposed to be a north to south express route. Not a north to
obscure-suburb-in-sw-london local train. I mean why Sutton? Why not
Wandsworth or Dulwich or Chessington or .....

It's got to be somewhere, hasn't it? If it was Chessington, you'd be
asking why not Sutton.

If anyone suggested the northbound thameslink had a terminus at Barnet
everyone would laugh,

Er, you know that the Thameslink inners terminate at St Albans, right?
That's barely outside London.

tom

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