On 6 Feb, 11:28, Alec 1SJ wrote:
Don't get me wrong: I don't want thameslink to come through Crystal
Palace or Gipsy Hill, but I might like some other lines to be extended
and so I wander why now that so many other stations in South London
get thameslink trains stopping, these stations get none?

I'm sure there was a time in the early 1990s when Thameslink switched
between the Crystal Palace route and the Selhurst route towards West
Croydon, all before it took over the Wimbledon loop and stopped going
to West Croydon.

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(MIG) wrote:

I'm sure there was a time in the early 1990s when Thameslink
switched between the Crystal Palace route and the Selhurst route
towards West Croydon, all before it took over the Wimbledon loop and
stopped going to West Croydon.

I swear I recll Thameslink services going right out to Guildford once as
well?

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On 6 Feb, 12:59, (Paul Cummins) wrote:
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(MIG) wrote:
I'm sure there was a time in the early 1990s when Thameslink
switched between the Crystal Palace route and the Selhurst route
towards West Croydon, all before it took over the Wimbledon loop and
stopped going to West Croydon.

I swear I recll Thameslink services going right out to Guildford once as
well?

Looks like alternate services continuing from West Croydon to
Guildford till May 1994.

I have gaps in my clutter though.

MIG wrote:
Looks like alternate services continuing from West Croydon to
Guildford till May 1994.

That agrees with my memory. It was Guildford to Luton, forming the stopping
service on the MML.

Theo

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:03:12AM -0800, MIG wrote:
On 6 Feb, 11:28, Alec 1SJ wrote:
Don't get me wrong: I don't want thameslink to come through Crystal
Palace or Gipsy Hill, but I might like some other lines to be extended
and so I wander why now that so many other stations in South London
get thameslink trains stopping, these stations get none?
I'm sure there was a time in the early 1990s when Thameslink switched
between the Crystal Palace route and the Selhurst route towards West
Croydon, all before it took over the Wimbledon loop and stopped going
to West Croydon.

There are still a handful of Thameslink services that go via Selhurst.
I think one a day stops at Selhurst, Thornton Heath, Norbury and
Streatham Common before getting onto the normal route at Streatham.
Presumably this is because trains are kept overnight at Selhurst depot.

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