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It also means that standard class customers wanting the front of the train are further from it than with the old trains too

What is really sad is that the Thameslink Programme as a whole have had a decade to produce this timetable...

Also note that engineering works often cause the Thameslink through services to be cancelled especially on Sunday

Some Midland Mainline Thameslink services look to still be missing too

There are MML Thameslink ones uploaded overnight too but I suspect some are missing as Bedford has only 2 southbound departures between 9 and 10.

Actually the £3400 was net - £5000 for the monthly seasons less £1600 for the full price returns

Someone I know used to buy a monthly season from Harlington to London. He didn't like the 387 seats because they were so hard. When the 700s came to the services he used, he negotiated with his employer to only come to the office once a week. The railway is losing £3400 a year as a result.

Yes but only 1 tph to start. I don't think the new website is trying to tell us anything that hasn't already been in the press releases but they made a few mess ups. See...

Note that TL3 are due to skip Harlington, Leagrave, Luton Airport Parkway and TL4 Harlington, Flitwick and Luton Airport Parkway. The last minute (in railway terms) announcement of this probably means that TL3 will be skipping Flitwick and Harpenden as well. Although it hasn't been publicised...

Sure. Itf you look in the press release (https://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/information/media/news/Major-changes-to-rail-services-announced-between-Bedford-Luton-and-London/) : "Seven GTR services per hour will continue to run between Bedford, Luton and London during the three-hour morning...

Actually they haven't said which TL Bedord trains will become the faster ones in May. My bet is that it will be the TL3 (East Grinstead) peak only services. That will mean the end of any faster peak services at Flitwick leaving 4 all stations to St Albans per hour. Harpenden will go from 7 to 5...

But my point was that the new timetable decreases the number of southbound TL trains using Bedford station in the morning peak. However I missed the fact that the number of northbound TL trains terminating at Bedford increases after 07:44 so that might explain why taking out the EM southbound...

The more I think about these changes, the more I think they are unnecessary. Not stopping MML services at Luton doesn't help Thameslink services keep to time because the Thameslink trains that use the fast lines can't keep up with the MML ones either from Bedford or London, because of the extra...

As per the press release the journey time to Bedford on these "new" fast Thameslink services will be "around 45 minutes" compared with 34 minutes for the fastest EMT service to-day. What they aren't saying is which of the faster Thameslink services from the consulted time table they will in...

As advertised in the original consultation, Flitwick will lose the faster services from London that depart Flitwick at 18:00, 19:00, 20:00. The morning faster services are more evenly timed than before but now the slower ones will be one minute before the fast ones rather than 4 minutes...