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The quicker route through South Croydon is routing trains through platform 4 towards Purley as there is a 20mph crossover going through platform 5 towards Purley. I don't think there is any issue with sending trains through platform 5 at all towards Purley, no restriction on the move. It seems...

Thing is though, even despite the really high batting scores is that if the weather holds tommorow, a lot of games should finish with either wins or losses. The fact there is a chance that the Warwickshure-Durham game and Essex Kent game could end with Warwickshire and Essex winning is quite...

Thameslink core is undergoing a programme to make it more resilient after a number of high profile infrastructure failures. This is requiring more weekend closures whereas the standard maintenance closures are usually just Sunday only. There is a blockade of the Thameslink core coming up this...

The base timetable now had 1tph from Redhill to Victoria on overtime ban days so Redhill gets 3tph.

That's not the main issue with the timetable. The main issue is with freight paths.

There are only a couple now. There will be more from December.

They reverse at Littlehampton now instead of barnham nowadays. But agree, to set up that diversion requires of lot of planning, can be done of course but really difficult to do at short notice. A lot of trains require double crew changes at both Littlehampton and Three Bridges when diverted that...

20mph esr on the Up Line.

Charters are planned at T6 which might be why the tfw train wasn't removed until T5.

It's not.

In Kent and Sussex now I would argue the only one that needs more platforms now based on the current level of service is Tonbridge due to the large volume of freight and seasonal traffic that runs through there. Either that or a way to send freight straight into West Yard from Sevenoaks, (Never...

Quarry lines were blocked so everything was diverting via Redhill. Vic to Brighton trains were stopping at Horley as the timetable did not work if you added the stops to the Bedford Brighton trains. Peterborough trains don't run on Sundays. Quarry Lines block meant there was no capacity for...

9T49 and 9T51 are booked SX to use Platform 6.

There is nothing stopping Thameslink trains from theoretically doing it. It does happen in practice as well, but train crew arrangements make it very difficult to implement during disruption. Plus blocking up Platform 2 can cause chaos at East Croydon and Platform 5 is used for terminating...

People shouldn't assume that's what is happening.

That is a lot more difficult than you are making it out to be. Firstly getting extra trains into Kings Cross, particularly 12 coach ones is hard enough as it is. Secondly, its not just a simple run Bedford to Horshams instead of Peterbrough to Horsham. The paths wouldn't line up, issues with...

I'm well aware of that. Planning will have planned to the train crew and resources they thought were available at the time. 1709465146 That's a huge re work job on the train crew side and also quite big on the timings and stock side. Can't just do replanning like that in a day or a couple days...

I suspect the issue is here with them not going to King's Cross is that the control team are short staffed due to sickness so just don't have time to replan the service significantly. I could be wrong here though.

Can still easily fit around them. The weekend service only requires 3tph to be diverted. Not too difficult to fit in at all.

Happenns all the time, defintely not the trickiest diversion. Overground really isn't an issue at all as they stay on the Atlantics and you'd send all the diverted Southeastern's on the Catford Lines to Brixton. For the Catford Loop diversions its not needed at all. Enough spare capacity to...