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In article ,
(Peter Masson) wrote:

"Neil Williams" wrote

I've never quite understood the point of having both Cannon St and
Monument - they're so close together.

Cannon Street for interchange with Southeastern; Monument for
interchange with Bank when all the escalators are working it's quite
a good interchange with the Northern Line, and better than Tower
Hill/Tower Gateway for connecting to the DLR.

Even though, as the crow flies, Bank is nearer to Cannon Street than to
Monument.

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On Mar 15, 3:02*pm, wrote:
In article ,

(Peter Masson) wrote:
"Neil Williams" wrote

I've never quite understood the point of having both Cannon St and
Monument - they're so close together.

Cannon Street for interchange with Southeastern; Monument for
interchange with Bank when all the escalators are working it's quite
a good interchange with the Northern Line, and better than Tower
Hill/Tower Gateway for connecting to the DLR.

Even though, as the crow flies, Bank is nearer to Cannon Street than to
Monument.

That depends on where you count Bank as being. It's a complex
probably covering as wide an area as Monument-Cannon Street-Mansion
House.

I think Cannon Street is nearer to the Central, Monument is nearer to
the Northern or DLR, Mansion House is nearer to the Waterloo and City.

But then all further complicated by the positioning of the exits and
whether they are open at particular times of day or week.

You are right that Cannon Street is nearest to the Bank entrance that
is guaranteed always to be open, but of course Cannon Street isn't ...

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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 01:09:50PM -0000, Paul Scott wrote:
wrote in message
...
Since Blackfriars is going to be closed for a considerable length of time
...
Has anyone any idea where the displaced passengers have ended up, the advice
seems to be to either walk to Mansion House or Temple, or stay on train
until City Thameslink.

City Thameslink? Errm? I thought Blackfriars NR was staying open for
Thameslink trains.

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"David Cantrell" wrote in message
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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 01:09:50PM -0000, Paul Scott wrote:
wrote in message
...
Since Blackfriars is going to be closed for a considerable length of
time
...
Has anyone any idea where the displaced passengers have ended up, the
advice
seems to be to either walk to Mansion House or Temple, or stay on train
until City Thameslink.

City Thameslink? Errm? I thought Blackfriars NR was staying open for
Thameslink trains.

Of course, but I think they are just suggesting that for some people whose
NR journey terminated at Blackfriars with an underground leg onwards, it may
be a more straightforward walk from City T/L, and from the 23rd their
terminating train will run through anyway...

Their wording is:
"In actual fact, with all this building work and changes to the walking
routes outside the station, you’ll definitely be better off using City
Thameslink station instead. It won’t cost you any more to reach, it’s
enclosed, warmer and actually only a couple of hundred yards away. And from
22 March ALL northbound trains will call there – including the services from
Kent and south-east London that currently terminate at Blackfriars (see ‘New
services...’ below). That means, if you’re heading south to get home, you’re
more likely to get a seat from City Thameslink too!"

http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk/cms/pages/view/40

Paul S

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"Paul Scott" wrote in message
...

Their wording is:
"In actual fact, with all this building work and changes to the walking
routes outside the station, you’ll definitely be better off using City
Thameslink station instead. It won’t cost you any more to reach, it’s
enclosed, warmer and actually only a couple of hundred yards away. And
from 22 March ALL northbound trains will call there – including the
services from Kent and south-east London that currently terminate at
Blackfriars (see ‘New services...’ below). That means, if you’re heading
south to get home, you’re more likely to get a seat from City Thameslink
too!"

http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk/cms/pages/view/40

Paul S


Will trains that originally terminated at Blackfriars now be stabled and
turned at the depot west of City Thameslink? I forget what it is called.

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wrote:

Will trains that originally terminated at Blackfriars now be stabled
and turned at the depot west of City Thameslink? I forget what it is
called.

A relatively small number of trains (only about 5 or 6 per day) will
terminate at City T/L and/or run into 'Smithfield Sidings', and half of
those are temporary because of the initial shortage of dual voltage stock,
originally the only 3 planned were very early am peak services, as listed
he

http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk..._items/view/17

In general however, trains that would have terminated at Blackfriars will
run through to at least Kentish Town, with some peak services going as far
as St Albans or Bedford.

I suspect there might be a good proportion of Southeastern's current
Blackfriars pax carrying on to at least City T/L.

Paul S