On 31 May, 13:02, "Andrew Heenan" wrote:
Thameslink already has two quite separate services, the metro (via the
Sutton Loop), and the Bedford to Brighton. It would make perfect sense for
LOROL to control the metro service, but not the long distance.

Except late at night when the trains run all stops Bedford - St P, and
during the peaks when the service patterns get complicated. They also
share stock and depots and drivers. It would take a major
reorganisation to try to run the metro service as a separate
operation.

The FCC GN side has a much clearer separation between inner and outer
services, with separate stock and termini, and to a large extent,
separate tracks. Few if any inner trains run north of Welwyn/Stevenage
(via Hertford), for example.

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