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Re: Thameslink 2020 inches closer - couple of further oddments |
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Posted by Fytton on Mon Dec 18 10:35:21 2006, in response to Thameslink 2020 inches closer, posted by Fytton on Thu Dec 14 09:27:37 2006. 1. Fitting out of the St Pancras Midland Road 'box' - the new station to replace Kings Cross Thameslink, to make the currently bare box underneath St Pancras main line station into a station - has started, and is expected to finish not long after Eurostar services to St Pancras start next November. Although Midland Mainline (MML) already has a new booking office at St Pancras labelled 'Domestic Tickets', First Capital Connect will have a separate booking office there, heaven knows why.2. Local media in Bedford have started to talk about the extension of the platforms there to twelve cars. It seems we are also going to get separate MML platforms at Bedford both north- and south-bound - currently the southbound express track through Bedford has no platform, so MML trains scheduled to stop southbound have to move over on to one of the tracks used by terminating Thameslink trains. Adding platform 5 will keep the MML trains out of Thameslink's way - necessary if they really are going to have 8 tph terminatiing at Bedford, as David Fairthorne suggested. |
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