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[email protected] · April 3rd 09, 06:06 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
08:02:16 on Fri, 3 Apr 2009,
remarked:

This comes from the WAML project this
thread is about. Nothing to do with the Thameslink programme.

Sorry, I was expecting a certain degree of joined-up-ness here.

In the privatised railway? Where have you been in the last 15 years,
Roland?!

So, the Platform 1 & 4 extensions are required for Thameslink, and
the new island platform quite separately for 12-cars to Liverpool
St?

Seems so, simply because they seem to involve processes that are totally
unrelated.

In any event, the NXEA franchise is extendable until March 2014.

I said East Anglia franchise without commenting on who holds it.

If the current franchise is extended until March 2014, won't the
works be in place?

Who knows? I wouldn't count on it. The new Stansted Express trains are due
late 2011 I think. The Thameslink programme won't be complete in 2014,
that's for sure.

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Colin Rosenstiel