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    Thameslink Services/Timetable from May 20th 2018

    Does anyone know if/when GTR will start reinstating services removed in the emergency timetable? My experience of the morning peak from the south is that it is now relatively reliable, certainly much better than late May. The remaining frustration for me is the 62-minute gap in the timetable...
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    Thameslink/ Class 700 Progress

    If this was the train due to depart Blackfriars at 18.04, then yes, that was indeed the reason. I was on the train. It was very busy on leaving City Thameslink. When we arrived at Blackfriars the driver announced that he was due to be replaced by another, but that driver wasn't qualified to...
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    Named trains

    As a Thameslink traveller I get to spend quite a bit of time on platforms waiting for my train to arrive. Watching trains go by in the other direction, I've noticed that at least two of Thameslink's trains have been named after destinations on the network: in particular I've seen Brighton and St...
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    New Thameslink logo

    This rebrand is frustrating on so many levels. 1. The "old" logo was introduced when the new franchise started - on 14 September 2014. So it lasted less than two years. What is known now that wasn't known then? 2. When I passed the Three Bridges depot the other week all of the new trains...
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    London Bridge reconstruction works

    I completely agree that that Network Rail should not be blamed for the problem being created: the vandals alone are culpable for their mindless behaviour. However the comparison between Network Rail-maintained property and TfL's is still valid. I agree that TfL seem to do a far better job of...
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    Has Network Rail's big cleanup started?

    I completely agree - although TfL seem to do a much better job of removing graffiti on the routes they maintain. I've seen many stretches of above-ground Underground lines that have no or very little graffiti. Perhaps there's a lesson Network Rail can learn...
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    Future of Romford to Upminster

    London Reconnections has an excellent post on the subject.
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    Franchise failure - Stagecoach has 3 main routes to the North?

    I'm assuming you mean 'competition', not completion. If so, I think you're missing the point. The competition element in our privatised railway system comes in the from of competitive tendering to win the right to run the franchises. Stagecoach just happened to have been involved in...
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    Greater Anglia - Overground takeover

    Why on earth should a passenger from Denmark Hill not be able to board a train just because somebody from Ramsgate/Dover doesn't want to have two minutes added to their journey?!

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