"Paul Scott" wrote in message
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"Peter Masson" wrote in message
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"Paul Corfield" wrote

Are the plans to which you refer publicly available on the net? The
nearest I could dig out was an old post on the now defunct London
Connections blog from several years ago. The diagram doesn't have the
subtle detail to which you refer.

I haven't come across the plans on the net -- and my information could be
out of date, as it comes from the February 2000 MR.

I was thinking Feb 2007 MR, was that a typo Peter?

The drawings do however show a number of options for routeing trains
across the junction in question, as you mention...

Thanks. I was looking for the later (2007) version but only found the
earlier (2000) version. The later one seems to provide a little more
flexibility at Blackfriars Junction, but retains the ability for a
southbound Elephant train to wait for a path across the junction without
impeding a following down London Bridge train from accessing the spur to
Metropolitan Junction.

Now that the routeing of Thameslink trains is becoming clearer a further
conflict has been removed. Thameslink Elephant & Castle trains will all run
via the Catford Loop, so won't conflict with trains from the Blackfriars
terminal platforms running via Herne Hill.

Peter