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Roland Perry · August 1st 11, 12:05 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 05:29:52
on Mon, 1 Aug 2011, remarked:
And if that's not what it means, will (as Colin suggests) the
"stoppers at everywhere north of Welwyn Garden City" run into KX not
Thameslink?

I was rather assuming that 12-car trains to Foxton were unlikely.

Why Foxton in particular? If the Cambridgshire rural stations are
being extended to 8car, and the Thameslink trains are 12car, it's
simply a necessary side effect.

I sued Foxton as an example rather than spell out Meldreth, Shepreth and
Foxton. In each case 12 into 8 doesn't go, not without SDO anyway.

SDO it is, then.

If the point is to subsume the existing Kings Cross Outer semi-fasts they
should go half to Cambridge and half to Peterborough anyway.

The Peterborough 2tph semi-fasts are going to Three Bridges.

Same problem as for Cambridge then. They are a mix of semi-fasts and slows.

They aren't slow trains, because they skip many stops as they get near
London.

I'm becoming more convinced that "semi-fast" describes all four
services, and you only look upon them as stoppers because you've got
even better "fast" services from Cambridge.

They are all Outer services all of which skip Inner stops. So stopping at
all the Outer stations is slow in my book.

Only because you are spoilt by the Cambridge Cruisers.
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Roland Perry