I noticed there is a new Thameslink Project website up and running. Benefits from 95 new carriages start to come through in 2009 and construction work has started. If anyone has any updates or photos I'd really appreciate it. Apparently Luton Airport Parkway has already been extended. In the meantime, here are some useful websites;
There is unlikely to be any increase in Brighton trains but because of the 2-track section south of Three Bridges just cannot support any more. So an increase in TL means a decrease in Southern to Victoria, which already has half as many as TL.
The Southern trains typically operate at 12 cars (10 for the class 442 but that equals the length of a 12-car unit) whereas TL can only currently be 8, often only 4. So the increase in capacity for Brighton is going to come down to lengthening the TLs to 12-car, or at the very least 8 throughout the day.
I'm not sure how many trains use the fasts through NXG, I've been trying to work it out from the timetables.
The 4tph TL obviously. Then there's the 1tph to Uckfield, the 1tph to Tonbridge, the 1tph to Reigate and the 2tph to Horsham, none of which have any reason to be on the slows as far as I can tell. It also seems the 2tph to Tattenham Corner are on the fasts as they don't stop till Norwood Junctions and are not TT'd to be overtaken by anything else fast. So thats 11tph as far as I can tell. Not much more could be supported until a grade separated junction is built at the northern end.
Do the "southern region" TOCs promise competitive infrastructure improvements when they bid for the contracts - or is the government eager just to get someone to run the trains?
I doubt it... they are just TOCs and not infrastructure owners / maintainers, after all... You wouldn't install a top-of the range kitchen in a flat you were only renting.
Hooray! About damned time that viaduct started taking shape. How long has it been under way? I moved out of the UK at the end of 2009, but as an ex-pat Londoner, I've been watching Thameslink 2000's "career" with interest.
(Also: where was that photo taken? The pub's name rings a bell, but I can't place it.)
Yes and then delayed once more the construction of London Bridge station for another 2 painful years which is utterly ridiculous, so now we will have to wait till 2018 before we see an improvement there. All the conservatives have done is re access and the previous Governments commitments repackage and cut back then take all the praise.
Does anyone know if the junction north of St. Pancras will be flat or grade-separated? I presume by the projected frequencies it'll be separated, but it's a bit like spaghetti junction round there already (if spaghetti junction was more underground).
When the Great Northern branch into St Pancras opens, will the signalling computers be able to finesse the speed of the approaching southbound trains, so they are likely not to have to stop in the tunnels, due to congestion?
The new Blackfriars will be reconfigured so that trains terminating there will not have to cross the path of the through-trains.
In another startling innovation, these terminus platforms will be built on top of the bright red piers that are all that remain of the first Blackfriars railway bridge, demolished in 1985.
That article does bring to light how huge this project really is. The central section should be on the tube map inho as it is essentially that through central London. A turn up and go metro service. It also mentions the Shard.
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