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In January 2009, the previous franchisee First Capital Connect proposed that the ticket office at Harlington railway station would open for just four hours per day. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The proposals were for the office to open at 0645 (previously 0600) and close at 1030 (currently 1850) on weekdays.
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 network opened as a through service in 1988, with ...
[8] [9] [10] Govia trading as SouthCentral [11] took over operations on 26 August 2001. The franchise was originally to run for twenty years but, in 2002, the Strategic Rail Authority changed the way it handled financing agreements and therefore Govia was re-awarded with a seven-and-a-half-year franchise until December 2009. [7] [12] [13]
During 2006, the Thameslink and Great Northern services were merged into a single franchise due to the upcoming Thameslink Programme.In 2012, the British government announced that services of First Capital Connect, Southern (with Gatwick Express) and some Southeastern routes would be merged into a single Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise (TSGN). [2]
All services at West Hampstead Thameslink are operated by Thameslink using Class 700 EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [8] 2 tph to Bedford (non-stop to and from St Albans City) 2 tph to Luton (all stations except Cricklewood and Hendon) 4 tph to St Albans City (all stations) 2 tph to Brighton via Gatwick Airport
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 ...
On Sundays a southern service runs to Brighton from London Victoria (the only BML service to run from Victoria that calls at three bridges station ) It is 29 miles 21 chains (47.1 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill. Three Bridges Depot is situated to the south of the station, the main depot for thameslink class 700s south of ...
Thameslink also runs a few services a day to Sutton on the Sutton Loop Line, via both Wimbledon and Mitcham Junction. [8] London Northwestern Railway operates local services to Bletchley via the Marston Vale line using Class 150 [9] units. There is no Sunday service on this line. [10] The typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is: