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Or it could be that St. Albans has a much higher proportion of London commuters. Without putting Hatfield down, it’s a very different demographic from St. Albans

Probably a very short one. Bit of a silly question really.

In the situation given, I.e. no Railways at all, why would you start again. Surely it would be better to optimise use of the road network or find a new technology. Building heavy rail from scratch doesn’t make sense on a crowded 66 million country.

According to the EM trains press release, it will be going from 7 to 5 as two will be fast.

Thameslink commuters from Flitwick, Harlington, Leagrave and Harpenden aren’t going to be happy either losing 2 trains per hour in the rush hour.

The other issue (and the bigger one for me and other passengers from Harpenden, Leagrave, Harlington and Flitwick) is losing two fast trains an hour in the rush hour. This will not be at all popular.

I dont' think it so much an issue of the type of train, its just that at Farringdon, when Crossrail comes in, there will be a huge increase in passengers. If you add that together with train faults, signalling faults, flooding and, dare I day it, potential security incidents, then running 24...

Effingham Junction and Horsley.

Same today. Was just about to get train down to London. 4 out of 5 fast trains are cancelled. Think I will drive.

Is the line to Radstock still there. It was a couple of years ago.

It can't be that rare. It's happened to me twice. Once at Effingham Junction and once at Harpenden

Many short trains this morning. Should be fun.

Having used THameslink for many a year, the last couple of months have been particularly bad (though not as bad as during last year's driver shortage). Farringdon is now an absolute nightmare, the platforms are too narrow and the access from platform to platform is awful. So god help us...