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All Avanti West Coast, London Northwestern Railway (LNR) and West Midlands Railway (WMR) services to, from and via Wolverhampton will be affected by engineering works. Rail replacement buses would ...
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 ...
The construction process itself took roughly two years, with civil works commencing in 2004 and completed in 2006. Design and construction of the tunnels were planned to integrate with the adjacent railway engineering works for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link High Speed 1 and redevelopment of the Railway Lands and St Pancras railway station .
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 plans are currently at public consultation stage with TfL, [18] although enabling works to make the station compatible with a future upgrade have been delayed. [ 19 ] An earlier proposal to construct a light rail system serving Brent Cross, Harlesden and Brent Cross tube station was put forward in 2010, but the scheme, known as the North ...
Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) is a management contract for the provision of passenger services on the Thameslink and Great Northern routes to Bedford, Luton, Peterborough, King's Lynn, Cambridge, London King's Cross, London Moorgate, Sutton, Wimbledon and Brighton, as well as the whole Southern network (including the Gatwick Express) and the jointly operated First Capital ...
On weekends, c2c operates a limited service to London Liverpool Street that diverges at Barking, and calls at Stratford instead of West Ham, Limehouse and Fenchurch Street. This route can also be utilised during engineering works or disruption. [61]
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 ...