On Nov 25, 10:16*pm, Fat richard wrote:

Today, I can confirm we will fund and deliver the Thameslink programme in
its entirety,

Well thats me twenty quid short, I had a bet going on the GN not
joining up and the stock not being the new generation of fixed
formation 8 / 12 cars. I thought A.T.O. had been officially poo
pooed ?


I was going for no GN link up too ... with that allowing less TPH so
no need for ATO.


mode cynic

Entirety .... ''the Thameslink programme in its entirety'' ....
yes ... now what /does/ that mean ... entirety at what point of
reference ?

At the point TL2000 morphed into TLP ? That can't be as some parts
have since been descoped from TLP eg 12car platforms at Kentish
Town, 25 kV wires to Blackfriars ... and no way was the depot ever
to be at Hornsey back then.

TLP has moved its own goalposts since TL2000.

Is it just possible there is some doublespeak here with ''entirety''
meaning ''what the DfT looked at this time round'' and some of the
rumours (like no ATO) might be facts ?


/ mode cynic

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Nick