Dave Arquati wrote:
Dear fountains of all knowledge,
Does anyone have any ideas of what platform at London Bridge Thameslink
trains from King's Cross generally arrive at, and what platform trains
to Canterbury East depart from? Information on the reverse direction
would be appreciated too. I may be helping my mum change there on
Saturday, and she suffers from MS so I'd like to know whether it would
(luckily) be an easy cross-platform change, or whether we'd be trekking
from one side of the station to the other.

To give an overall picture, the whole journey would be for me & mum to
travel from Wycombe to Canterbury, meeting a friend coming from Luton. I
ruled out the Tube for a cross-London transfer as the walk either down
to the Bakerloo at Marylebone or to Baker St is a pain in the
proverbial, as is the walk up from the Victoria line at Victoria or the
Bakerloo at Charing Cross.

One thought would be to do the 453 from Marylebone to Cockspur St or the
first stop on Whitehall, to get to Charing Cross and meet our friend
there, but I'm not keen on our chances on a bendy bus in the reverse
direction (calling Helen for advice!).

My other thought is the 205 (also right outside Marylebone) to right
outside King's Cross Thameslink, meeting our friend and continuing from
there, changing at London Bridge.

Any thoughts/advice are welcome.


Southbound Thameslink trains nearly always arrive/depart from Platform 5
unless there's a problem on the platform.

I'm also pretty sure that the Canterbury services also use Platform 5.
It's either 5 or 4.

When you get onto the platform off the train, don't go down the ramp but
instead run up the stairs to the footbridge about halfway along the
platform - there's an indicator there which says when the next train to
all destinations will be and what platform it'll be on (I'd suggest
leaving your mum on the platform though cos I'm almost 100% sure it will
be on platform 5).

The reverse trips should both arrive/depart from platform 6.