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I remember going for a drink on Fleet Street on a weeknight a year or so ago and being surprised to find City Thameslink closed at 11pm. It does seem a bit of a throwback to the days when stations like Cannon Street and Chancery Lane were closed on Sunday, but while much of the City is a bit...

I remember a hovercraft trip from Dover to Calais in the mid-80s. It was Hoverspeed by then, but the sick bags still had big double arrows on.

Same at the Dean Street end of Tottenham Court Road.

There’s no Thameslink through London Bridge today, Victoria to Lewisham trains seem to be suffering difficulties too. OP might be better off travelling to Farringdon and getting the Liz Line to Abbey Wood for the SL3 (which drops off close to the station and the Premier Inn in Sidcup).

Thank you for this - the thought came from the earlier threads from when Thameslink started running through Greenwich, there was a theory that it was a raid on ORCATS revenue from Abbey Wood to Farringdon.

I guess this is moot since the cash all goes into the same pot, but does GTR lose what would otherwise be guaranteed income from these cancellations? I'm assuming that half (or a close-ish proportion) of half would - at least notionally - go to GTR if I tapped in from Maze Hill and tapped out...

Hopefully there'll be a decent rail devolution settlement for London by then so Westminster will stop meddling in the capital's metro services.

The Friday plan has been scrapped: https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/07/15/thameslink-friday-train-services-cut-abandon/

SL3 in London runs from Bromley to Thanesmead, not Woolwich. (It meets the 96 at Bexleyheath.)

If GTR is such a money pit, why does it continue to exist as a single entity? Why isn't it broken up?

https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/07/10/greenwich-thameslink-cuts-luton-rainham-summer-autumn-2026/

The street-level interchange via Hanover Square from the east end of Bond Street Liz Line to Oxford Circus is simpler than some of the below-ground interchanges on Crossrail.

Interesting. I’m a little bit surprised none of the Kent operators tried a “fast to Abbey Wood” service to compete with the poor rail service from there to Dartford and beyond.

TfL have confirmed that an agreement has been reached.

In addition, because of the way the marathon route is designed, rail is - literally - the only practical way in and out of some neighbourhoods for a few hours while the race is on. Thameslink simply not bothering to play its part is bad enough on the Sunday, it'll be unacceptable on a Saturday...