londonmidland
Established Member
Primarily focusing on the Bedford to London St Pancras section of the line, it is quite obvious there are some pathing and capacity issues.
I am currently on an East Midlands Trains ‘fast’ service to London St Pancras, 1C42 to be specific. Everything appears to be fine until we started approaching Luton. 9T37 Bedford to Brighton was put on the ‘fasts’ from Luton and calls at Luton Airport Parkway, Harpenden, before going onto the ‘slows’ before St Albans.
Now, it isn’t too much of a problem as we didn’t pick up too much of a delay but it seems an ever increasing occurrence that Thameslink get routed on to the fasts in front of ‘on time’ EMT services. Not much of an issue for 222’s with their good braking and rapid acceleration but for HSTs you can pick up quite a few minutes from the constant braking a slow acceleration.
Is it, to put it in simple terms, trying to cram too many trains in at once and not enough lines?
I am currently on an East Midlands Trains ‘fast’ service to London St Pancras, 1C42 to be specific. Everything appears to be fine until we started approaching Luton. 9T37 Bedford to Brighton was put on the ‘fasts’ from Luton and calls at Luton Airport Parkway, Harpenden, before going onto the ‘slows’ before St Albans.
Now, it isn’t too much of a problem as we didn’t pick up too much of a delay but it seems an ever increasing occurrence that Thameslink get routed on to the fasts in front of ‘on time’ EMT services. Not much of an issue for 222’s with their good braking and rapid acceleration but for HSTs you can pick up quite a few minutes from the constant braking a slow acceleration.
Is it, to put it in simple terms, trying to cram too many trains in at once and not enough lines?