Recent content by Minstral25

Never worried about the ironing board nature - it's the lack of leg room that makes them uncomfortable - bet they are not fixing that!

Agreed and the do not travel is for St Pancras to Bedford. Yet nothing at Blackfriars or London Bridge heading south and no information for people already at work or shows in London on how to get home.

There are virtually no Thameslink Trains running south of London - where have they all gone? Not even a shuttle from London Bridge to Gatwick, yet virtually nothing on their web site about south of London Bridge.

Definitely not full and standing but have been using a lot recently and busier than I expected. Most trains have bays of seats with at least one person in all day - still not that much obvious Gatwick passengers but mostly local passengers. Agree - my car crosses often as I still live here

You would get some serious upset along the Redhill route for doing that. Here are some reasons why. First the 9J Peterborough train is the more reliable Thameslink train as the 9R Bedford is regularly disrupted. Second, neither train serves all stations, there is an alternate stopping pattern...

Great to have Steve White in back in the Thameslink/Sussex region, GTR management has been floundering since he left. Plus, we will see better Public Relations.

No Problem - it didn't read good - apology accepted The problems at Earlswood and Salfords (and the wider Redhill route) is the contingency plans always leave the pain at the same place and are used far too often. When RecentTrainTimes for last 4 weeks is showing most of the day over 30% of...

The Southern Service is a slow service to London and also requires changes if you want Thameslink, but it helps. Daytime and evenings the lack of Bedford service heavily effects journeys. Strangely the Southern Service runs within a few moments of the Thameslink service by the time you get to...

A rather poor answer, I think. I would expect someone who works for the railways to be more concerned for passengers, especially when there are half a million journey's to and from at those stations. Plus, of course the issue that the train service is so abysmal, so they all drive to Redhill...

You are lucky you don't use Earlswood (or Salfords) then - where in last 20 days most Thameslink services to London Bridge are showing less than 55% actually running (RecentTrainTimes - Mon-Fri service), many as low as 38% ran in last 20 days. If you are a station that relies on 9R (Bedford -...

OK but not from Reigate but yes from some stations if you have the right ticket. The first Thameslink to London Bridge, Blackfriars and St Pancras is 9R18. Most people travel there

No, not reinstated they are Q codes in case they decide to run them but to make sure they are not in timetable - local reaction of losing 9R18 is utter disgust. A very busy and popular train as it is first off-peak service, plus a relatively fast one to London as it doesn't call at Merstham or...

Thank you

See these reports appearing across RailforumsUK, appreciate this is a TOPS report and useful to many but I don't understand all the abbreviations. I can guess some of the meanings (like LESTER is Leicester) and the loco numbers, but not what MBEL means for example. Can anyone link me to an...

Really - 10 tph in each direction the limit after all those major engineering works supposedly improving signals and operations or at least that is how NR sold them to users. Disappointing and not what I am hearing elsewhere where the only issue is finding space at Brighton Station which is...