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Thameslink via Finsbury Park, fantastic when it works - Which is pretty much all the time now to be fair to them.

Is this not just because it's a very frequent metro style service being compared to more traditional routes? My understanding is that it's the standard way to recover service quickly for this type of system - Short sharp shock of cancellations to get back to timetable. Makes for a good...

St Pancras Low Level(Thameslink) is awful at times.

There's still plenty of headspans on the southern ECML. You can see it on Google maps I think, long stretches that don't seem to have any OHLE on it at all because the headspans are too thin for the camera to pick up. If you compare to around Reading for example, you can see a big metal...

King's Cross Thameslink, between St Pancras and Farringdon in the TL Core, has a lot of electrical equipment on the platforms now for the core's signalling system I think?

The line was closed between Luton and West Hampstead TL this weekend, so I'd guess it's that - Don't think it's the core.

https://www.railsigns.uk/sect14page2.html There's more info about them at the bottom of this page, assuming the photo in post #8 is what you're talking about.

Looks like there's more than enough room to install barriers where they're doing those checks? Surely cheaper long-term than the 6 people standing around - You'll see less staff standing around the gateline at King's Cross during morning rush hour than that!

That's crazy - Are they only checking 2 people at a time?

Should "That's what BR did" really be used as a defense for decisions made today? Suspect the service is slightly more intense now than the BR days, there's certainly a lot more passengers to be impacted.

How can you know if the crisis is going to occur at 3am, or during the evening peak as a train passes?

Thameslink core?

The only way I could see it happening is to use SDO on the branches. Doesn't solve the depot problem though.

Looking at OOC on GMaps, there does seem to be room for the ~40m extra needed at the front of the sidings, but it would involve completely re-working the pointwork and will likely lose some of the sidings in the process.

The newly built core stations have provision for 11 coaches IIRC. The sidings/depots on the other hand....

Or sometimes it'll be the chime and crackling sounds/a very muffled voice that you can't understand. Bit worrying really because the driver probably thinks we can hear them.

Is the rail really that wobbly or is it just the camera doing that?

Can anything be done about St Pancras Low Level then? It really is dreadful, I always feel sorry for the staff who have to listen to it all day. Doesn't happen at Farringdon AFAIK, is STP Low level just too tight of a curve? Can't see that being fixed anytime soon if so.

Looks like there's a third rail? So either south of England or Merseyrail? Platforms look bi-directionally signalled as well?

There's also a persistent issue that the morning southbound services get marked as delayed around 10/15 minutes before departure, only to leave perfectly on time, or maybe only a minute or so late. Maybe a minor thing, but definitely makes me worried I should have left home only around 10...