ChiefPlanner
Established Member
We are already getting class 9 blindness in the Norwood Junction area with all the London Overground and Thameslink services running as such and this is even with the reduced service that’s currently runnning. In fact the trains that now stand out are the 1Exx Uckfield’s, 1Pxx Caterhams/Tottenham’s 1Kxx Epsom’s. When a class 9 TL gets diverted on to the slows it’s a job to spot them from the ARLs and not send then to West Croydon.
I can understand all that - it is a "risk" - when I were a lad class 9's were 25 mph unbraked , lumbering coal trains treading around the coalfields.
ARS would surely understand the difference - even for a "9" for a BML as oppossed to a WC / Palace local ? - or it should IMHO.