Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Thameslink is a mainline route on the British railway network, running from Bedford, Luton, St Albans City, Peterborough, Welwyn Garden City, London Blackfriars and Cambridge via central London to Sutton, Orpington, Sevenoaks, Rainham, Horsham, Three Bridges, Brighton and East Grinstead.
The Thameslink Programme, originally Thameslink 2000, was a £6 billion project in south-east England to upgrade and expand the Thameslink rail network to provide new and longer trains between a wider range of stations to the north and to the south of London. The development facilitated new cross-London journeys, which means that passengers no ...
Govia Thameslink Railway has operated Thameslink and Great Northern services since 14 September 2014. Thameslink is a 68-station main-line route running 225 km (140 miles) north to south through London from Bedford to Brighton , serving both London Gatwick Airport and London Luton Airport , with a suburban loop serving Sutton , Mitcham and ...
Thameslink trains reverted to their previous route but ran through the station box without stopping. The budget for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link works did not include work on the fitting out of the station, as these works had originally been part of the separate Thameslink 2000 works programme. Despite lobbying by rail operators who wished to ...
The signalling systems installed were integrated with Thameslink's High Capacity Infrastructure; in addition to conventional colour light signalling, the European Train Control System is present; Thameslink officials claimed that this arrangement was the world's first implementation of such technology on a mainline 'heavy' railway. [3]
Blackfriars, also known as London Blackfriars, is a central London railway station and connected London Underground station in the City of London.It provides Thameslink services: local (from North to South London), and regional (Bedford and Cambridge to Brighton) and limited Southeastern commuter services to South East London and Kent.
Map showing railway routes to be operated by Govia Thameslink Railway. The background map shows the coastline and major urban areas. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160%: Date: 25 August 2014: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Great Britain coastline and boundary data from Boundary-Line product.
City Thameslink, London Charing Cross and London Victoria to Dartford, Swanley and Knockholt (Travelcards on ITSO) [7] City Thameslink, London Charing Cross and London Victoria to Dartford, Swanley and Knockholt (Freedom Pass) [19] Thameslink (brand of Govia Thameslink Railway) The Key [82] Sevenoaks to St Pancras International (The Key (ITSO ...