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Luton Airport Thameslink-District Line Blackfriars?

Question by Mirabo | Posted in Rail

I am arriving at Luton Airport London and succeeding on to Barking. I thought to take the Thameslink City Flier and at Blackfriars change to the District Thread on the Tube, which runs to Barking. Are their platforms at Blackfriars level? Is it easy to

Answer: You will have at least 2 sets of stairs....

Alternatively, you can convert at Farringdon, where there are a relativly few stairs between the Southbound Thameslink (Now called Capital Connect) and Westbound Surround, if you take that to
 
 

How Do I Get To East Croydon Via First Capital Connect Train?

Question by tj | Posted in Rail

Hi, I'm guessing I will certainly have to stop at Kings Cross. Aparently its on the victoria line but on the wikipedia it doesnt show east croydon.

I would be on the Cambridge to London cavalcade first. Then what Line do i find?
Some

Answer: Once you get to Kings Grouchy simply follow the signs to St Pancras First Capital Connect trains; you privation the Brighton service for East Croydon which runs every 15 minutes. Through tickets are accessible from Cambridge. If you are coming back the
 

Thameslink - Farringdon station redevelopment CGI

www.networkrail.co.uk A CGI blur showing the phased completion of the Farringdon redevelopment project. By 2018 over 140 trains an hour will run ...

London Reconnections: Crossrail & Thameslink Budgets Under The Hammer?

by noreply@blogger.com (Totteridge)

The same article in Erection Journal suggests that Network Railing may observe dropping the £3 billion remodelling of London Connect, in joining to £100 million of cuts it was asked to towards this week, quoting a provenance as saying: "The suspicions about is,... There's decidedly no justification for contemptuous back on Crossrail at such a recently manoeuvre in the strategy: they're *already edifice it*. What do these idiots look for them to do. Re-architect and re-develop an unconditional poke out while it's being built. Construction Periodical reported this week that the regulation is account cuts to Crossrail totalling £5 billion — almost a third of the present's add up £15. Practicable cuts contain the Crossrail stations at Shackles Concourse and Tottenham Court Passage, scornful the mob of carriages per carriage from 12 to 10, or abandoning extensions to Maidenhead and Abbey Wood. Looking at the "news" component of the Wikipedia folio, it seems it took 20 years to get this podium, and there's still about 20 years until vernissage. 5bn...

Source: London Reconnections: Crossrail & Thameslink Budgets Under The Hammer?

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