In message , at 15:54:35 on
Wed, 10 Aug 2005, asdf remarked:

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.

You still would, as the number of services via Elephant terminating at
Blackfriars is relatively small, so running them through the tunnel
would only displace a proportion of the London Bridge services. Unless
the plans involve significantly increasing SET services to
Blackfriars?

I really don't see why heaven and earth need to be moved just so that
a few people coming from one direction have to change trains instead
of a few people coming from the other direction. Especially with the
huge cost of the project threatening its very viability.

Apparently there are too many trains, and so the somewhat small number
that terminate at Blackfriars can't make it through the tunnels. I agree
that these issues shouldn't hold up the whole project, hence my original
suggestion that the surplus trains be sent to Victoria, or in the last
resort, scrapped altogether.
--
Roland Perry