Yes it is a capacity problem. It is planned to push 24 trains per
hour each direction through the tunnel. 18 of those will be via London
Bridge, the other 6 obviously via The Elephant. There are no pathways
available for SET trains that currently terminate at Blackfriars. And
those that go through the core will be of the New Thameslink Franchise
(the presnt Thamelsink merged with WAGN).




On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:18:44 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 04:34:37 on
Wed, 10 Aug 2005, asdf remarked:
I wonder why they can't simply scrap the terminating services and send
them all to Victoria instead.

Because a lot of people use them (including me)! And if they went to
Victoria you'd land in an entirely different part of town.

Why not make them part of the TL2K thing? Instead of terminating at
Blackfriars, send them through the tunnels and on to somewhere like
Welwyn, Hertford or Letchworth.

Exactly. Send all the services (from the Elephant & Castle direction)
that currently terminate at Blackfriars through the tunnel to
Farringdon and beyond. Terminate an equivalent number of services from
the London Bridge direction at Blackfriars. Seems a far more sensible
and sane solution than ripping apart the entire station.

Then you wouldn't get the through services from Gatwick (and other
planned destinations) to north of the river, as they mainly go via
London Bridge.

On the other hand, adding some of the "via elephant" destinations to the
through trains doesn't seem too much of an issue, although maybe there's
not the capacity through the tunnels for them.


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