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Post by Dillon95 on Jan 6, 2021 17:20:10 GMT
To be honest it was pretty much going to be a non starter, many of the routes, especially in South London, have services that run well beyond the London boundary. The Greenwich/Woolwich line has services that run as far a field as Medway towns and that was taken over by Thameslink because South Eastern felt that it would be easier to split that away from the rest of the franchise in the event of a TfL take over, yet the Sidcup and Bexleyheath lines run as far as Gravesend which isn’t as far out as Medway, but still beyond the London boundary. It also seemed that TfL only wanted to take over the Dartford terminators and the loop services only, so South Eastern still would have been left with Gravesend services anyway, so siphoning off the Gillingham service was a redundant move especially since it now calls at nearly every station making that a metro route rather than the semi fast outer suburban/inter-urban service it was. They also only wanted to take over Southern services that run either via West Croydon and non Croydon services, leaving East Croydon metro services with Southern. The whole thing was very confusing, as I said the Moorgate lines will be taken under TfL at some point in the future probably by 2023 I would imagine, but beyond that I think the dream to make the whole of the London suburban rail network orange is just a pipe dream at this point If they ever did assimilate all of the London area National Rail metro services, they would have to colour code the routes somehow on the map. You couldn’t have all of that orange.
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Post by Busboy105 on Oct 31, 2021 11:05:03 GMT
When finances are a little better (God knows when that will be the case) why don't TFL start with services that terminate in London first like the Hayes/Bromley North/Orpington SE trains?
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Post by greenboy on Oct 31, 2021 11:23:33 GMT
When finances are a little better (God knows when that will be the case) why don't TFL start with services that terminate in London first like the Hayes/Bromley North/Orpington SE trains? Why? There's very little scope for increasing services.
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Post by Busboy105 on Oct 31, 2021 14:44:27 GMT
When finances are a little better (God knows when that will be the case) why don't TFL start with services that terminate in London first like the Hayes/Bromley North/Orpington SE trains? Why? There's very little scope for increasing services. They don't have to increase it.
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