We are going to use a Thameslink train now. This is an interesting route. It runs from Bedford, Luton, St Albans City, Peterborough and Cambridge via central London to Sutton, Orpington, Sevenoaks, Rainham, Horsham and Brighton. It is one of the few lines, both Underground and NR that goes through London north-south. It is so important that as for December 2020 (and before the creation of the TfL) it is again showed on the Tube/TfL Map, despite being operated as a franchise. It was and still is being highly modernized during the Thameslink Programme that started in 2009. Actually, part of the programme is the modernization of the London Bridge station and some others that I'll mention later. There are 24 long trains trains per hour on the core section through the central London, which makes it a rail line that is really similar to Crossrail, just north-south instead of east-west (and remember that the north-south Crossrail 2 project is something completely different). The line uses the Snow Hill tunnel that opened on 1 January 1866 and was not used for many years (it was closed for passenger traffic between 1916 and 1986, when the first Thameslink was established, in the last years of British Rail). (previous | next | back to album | 2020:02:10 17:02:48 | 34% of an album)