In message , at 16:14:35 on
Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Bruce remarked:
It was renamed "The Thameslink Programme" once the delays got
so long that the 2000 name was just too emabarassingly silly.

"Thameslink 2018" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. ;-)

2018 is obviously the year when Thameslink 2000 comes of age.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 16:41:58 on Thu,
25 Nov 2010, Roy Badami remarked:
istr they were supposed to be lengthening platforms at Cambridge to take
12 cars, but I think they may have changed their mind and are doing an
island instead.

Cambridge has had 12-car Class 365 services to Kings Cross in the
morning peak for some time now.

Isn't that being done by some sort of kludge, rather than lengthening
both platforms 1 & 4 so that all trains could be 12-car, as was
originally proposed?
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 10:37:20 on Thu,
25 Nov 2010, Mizter T remarked:
Amongst a number of points covered in SoS Hammond's announcement this
morning was this one:

---quote---
Today, I can confirm we will fund and deliver the Thameslink programme in
its entirety

Does that include the link-up with the GN line to Cambridge, or was that
air-brushed from the scheme long ago?

Yes it does, but its removal has only been presumed by the more pessimistic
posts here, and IIRC some equally pessimistic rail mag editorials.

This afternoons oral statement adds to what Mizter T posted above:

"I can also confirm today that we will fund and deliver the Thameslink
programme in its entirety, virtually doubling the number of north-south
trains running through central London at peak times. This huge investment
will link Sussex, Kent and Surrey, through central London, with
Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire."

Paul S

(Roy Badami) wrote:
In article ,
Bruce wrote:
Basically, Thameslink 2000 is what we are discussing.

Right. It was renamed "The Thameslink Programme" once the delays got
so long that the 2000 name was just too emabarassingly silly.

"Thameslink 2018" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. ;-)

So basically, we are today celebrating that Thameslink 2000 is only
delayed a further two years (now making it 18 years late) rather than
actually being cancelled :-/


Given the appalling state in which labour left the public finances, I
think we are very lucky indeed that Thameslink is going ahead.

So yes, we are celebrating. ;-)

On Nov 25, 8:27*am, wrote:
Anyone know what the plans are for the remaining parts of the moorgate line
are? Will LU take them over eventually?

B2003

There is no obvious use for the extra pair from Farringdon to
Moorgate, sad really.

On Nov 25, 8:40*am, (Roy Badami) wrote:
In article ,

Bruce wrote:
Basically, Thameslink 2000 is what we are discussing. *

Right. *It was renamed "The Thameslink Programme" once the delays got
so long that the 2000 name was just too emabarassingly silly.

"Thameslink 2018" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. *;-)

So basically, we are today celebrating that Thameslink 2000 is only
delayed a further two years (now making it 18 years late) rather than
actually being cancelled :-/

Given the state of the UK economy, this is VERY good.

"1506" wrote:

On Nov 25, 8:27 am, wrote:

Anyone know what the plans are for the remaining parts of the moorgate
line
are? Will LU take them over eventually?

There is no obvious use for the extra pair from Farringdon to
Moorgate, sad really.

I think it's to be used at least in part as a stabling location for the new
(longer) S-stock - at the moment part of it is being used as a worksite
(storage etc) for the Farringdon Thameslink works - might also prove useful
(indeed could well be part of the plan) to utilise it in the same capacity
for Crossrail works too.

"Roland Perry" wrote:

In message , at 16:14:35
on Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Bruce remarked:

It was renamed "The Thameslink Programme" once the delays got
so long that the 2000 name was just too emabarassingly silly.

Hence the occasional 'Thameslink 3000' moniker!


"Thameslink 2018" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. ;-)

2018 is obviously the year when Thameslink 2000 comes of age.

Very good!

"Paul Corfield" wrote:

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:27:42 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

Anyone know what the plans are for the remaining parts of the moorgate
line
are? Will LU take them over eventually?

I thought something had been said in Modern Railways about the remaining
alignment (net of any incursions by Crossrail or Thameslink works) was
being considered as potential stabling sidings for LUL use. I might be
imagining it though!


I don't think you are, though I don't think I've ever read or heard anything
solid about it. From a layman's point of view it'd seems like a decent
location for some sidings.

On 2010\11\25 16:14, Bruce wrote:
(Roy Badami) wrote:
In ,
wrote:
"Richard wrote:

It was delayed.

Basically, Thameslink 2000 is what we are discussing.

Right. It was renamed "The Thameslink Programme" once the delays got
so long that the 2000 name was just too emabarassingly silly.


"Thameslink 2018" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. ;-)

How about "Thameslink's 2020 Vision"?

Google says that some one beat me to this gag in 2004, in a discussion
about how Thameslink 2000 would not be finished until 2015. So in the
last 6 years the timetable has only slipped by 3 years. At this rate,
the government will be announcing in 2028 that the project was completed
in 2027, even though nothing will have actually been done.