This article is about the railway route. For the main operator of services on the route, see Govia Thameslink Railway. For other uses, see Thameslink (disambiguation).
Thameslink
Govia Thameslink Railway Class 700 Desiro City standing at Brighton in December 2020.
Overview
Locale
South East England
Greater London
East of England
Predecessor
Thameslink, 2 March 1997 –31 March 2006
First Capital Connect, 1 April 2006 –13 September 2014
Current operator(s)
Govia Thameslink Railway, 14 September 2014 –1 April 2028[1]
Website
www.thameslinkrailway.com
Route
Termini
Bedford
Peterborough
Cambridge
Sutton
Orpington
Sevenoaks
Rainham
Horsham
Three Bridges
Brighton
East Grinstead
Train number(s)
TL
Line(s) used
Brighton Main Line
Chatham Main Line
East Coast Main Line
Midland Main Line
Snow Hill tunnel
South Eastern Main Line
North Kent Line
Sutton Loop Line
Technical
Rolling stock
115 Class 700 Desiro City
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification
Overhead line, 25 kV 50 Hz AC
Third rail, 750 V DC
Track owner(s)
Network Rail
Route map
Thameslink is a mainline route on the British railway network, running from Bedford, Luton, St Albans City, Peterborough, Welwyn Garden City, London Blackfriars and Cambridge via central London to Sutton, Orpington, Sevenoaks, Rainham, Horsham, Three Bridges, Brighton and East Grinstead. The network opened as a through service in 1988, with severe overcrowding by 1998, carrying more than 28,000 passengers in the morning peak. All the services are currently operated by Govia Thameslink Railway. Parts of the network, from Bedford to Three Bridges, run 24 hours a day, except on early Sunday mornings and during maintenance periods.[2]
The Thameslink Programme was a major £5.5billion scheme to increase capacity on the central London section by accommodating more frequent and longer trains, and providing additional routes and destinations. The new services began operating in 2018. In 2016, new Class 700 trains started operating on the route and replaced the Class 319, Class 377 and Class 387 trains which were withdrawn and transferred elsewhere.
^"National Rail Contract Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern" (PDF). Department for Transport. 24 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
^Cite error: The named reference BedfordLondonTimetable was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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