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Post by jimini on Apr 18, 2006 11:30:13 GMT
Afternoon all,
Quick one that occurred to me the other day: Now that FCC have taken over the cross-London franchise from Thameslink, will City / Kings Cross / West Hampstead Thameslink stations be renamed? Or shall the legacy that was Thameslink live on forever?!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2006 12:08:00 GMT
The official name of the franchise is Thaneslink Great Northern. Personally I can't see First going to the bother of changing the name of the stations.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2006 12:35:45 GMT
First Capital Connect City... God No... don't let me us hear you (lucky i'm western  ) |
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Post by compsci on Apr 18, 2006 12:50:37 GMT
Changing the name of KX Thameslink to anything involving their name would really confuse passengers as they also run the ex WAGN services out of the mainline station.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2006 13:18:26 GMT
Plus there's also the question to what to call the box under St. Pancras Midland.
St. Pancras Thameslink sounds eminently sensible to me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2006 14:01:32 GMT
If Management were to do something then they'd only simplify the names, so Kings Cross Thameslink would become Kings Cross and so on. But TBH First are fairly tight you should see me wages slip so its unlikely they'd spend loads of money changing station names
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2006 14:10:32 GMT
Plus there's also the question to what to call the box under St. Pancras Midland. St. Pancras Thameslink sounds eminently sensible to me. I believe St. Pancras Midland Road is the intended name AFAIK. |
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Post by setttt on Apr 18, 2006 14:36:32 GMT
Plus there's also the question to what to call the box under St. Pancras Midland. St. Pancras Thameslink sounds eminently sensible to me. Surely there isn't much point in giving the thameslink box a different name? As you say, it's right under the midland station, so I don't see why a different name is necessary. Isn't it all going to be part of the same complex? As for City Thameslink, how about Fleet Street or Ludgate Hill? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2006 17:31:53 GMT
Surely there isn't much point in giving the thameslink box a different name? As you say, it's right under the midland station, so I don't see why a different name is necessary. Isn't it all going to be part of the same complex? Now that you think about it, I guess it would make sense for its name to be in line with the rest of the complex. Given though that "St. Pancras" as a generic name now covers no less than four separate stations, suffixes would definitely be needed. I believe St. Pancras Midland Road is the intended name AFAIK. Ah, thanks for the reminder. |
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Post by greatplum on Apr 19, 2006 11:26:40 GMT
If Management were to do something then they'd only simplify the names, so Kings Cross Thameslink would become Kings Cross and so on. But TBH First are fairly tight you should see me wages slip so its unlikely they'd spend loads of money changing station names I noticed that their livery change involves slapping a transfer over the name... |
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Post by compsci on Apr 19, 2006 12:41:48 GMT
They've covered a 365 in vinyls to hide the NSE livery. I think they're planning to cover/repaint them all eventually, although it may have been a one off so they had something to display at the launch party. (Where a lack of forward planning resulted in a vast quantity of champage that hardly anyone invited could drink.)
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Post by Phil on Apr 20, 2006 14:07:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2006 17:50:53 GMT
(Where a lack of forward planning resulted in a vast quantity of champage that hardly anyone invited could drink.) Why was this? |
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Post by compsci on Apr 20, 2006 18:21:46 GMT
The venue was Platform 9 at King's Cross. The majority of the people invited were on duty staff.
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Post by CSLR on Apr 20, 2006 20:39:36 GMT
(Where a lack of forward planning resulted in a vast quantity of champage that hardly anyone invited could drink.) Maybe the forward planners wanted to stash a few bottles away in case anyone decided to name the Metronet diesels? |
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Post by Tubeboy on Apr 23, 2006 11:00:11 GMT
lets hope their control centre performs better than the tlink one [lack of info during disruption and none of their staff being round] meaning i have to take rubbish from all sides.  |
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Post by jimini on Apr 25, 2006 14:37:27 GMT
I had the pleasure of using First Crapital Connect last night. Great start, the 19:08 from Tooting was cancelled so had to get the 19:40 which meant I missed the first 10 minutes of the football! Two changes I noticed though: a) they've taken to broadcasting ETA statements via the help points (eg. The next train to Sutton has just left Streatham and will be with you shortly), and b) in the carriages they've gone round and blacked out the word Thameslink on all the route maps (so now you get City, West Hampstead etc)...
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