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West Hampstead access for all

18-03-2009

West Hampstead Thameslink Station is being transformed as Network Rail installs a fully accessible footbridge with lift access to all four platforms.

Farewell to Moorgate

18-03-2009

The Farringdon to Moorgate branch line, which dates back to 1868, will close permanently to passenger service when the new timetable is introduced on 22 March 2009.

New timetable, 22 March 2009

03-03-2009

The new 22 March 2009 timetable permanently removes First Capital Connect Thameslink route services to and from Moorgate and Barbican.

Heads up! Bedford, Luton and St Albans trains will not run between Hendon and London Bridge on Sundays 15 and 29 March 2009

03-03-2009

That's because Network Rail is lifting in a new covered footbridge at West Hampstead. It will have lifts to all platforms and make it easier to interchange with the Tube. It will also ease passenger movement around the station ready for new, longer 12-carriage trains, which will enter service between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Thameslink Programme.

Farringdon footbridge work flying along

23-02-2009

Network Rail’s contractors have been making good progress installing a new passenger footbridge at Farringdon station.

Named trains transform Thameslink Programme communications

26-01-2009

Two striking rainbow-striped trains were yesterday named at London Blackfriars station as part of a campaign to tell passengers about the massive £5.5 billion capacity upgrade of the cross-London Thameslink route.

Revamped depot ready for new fleet of trains

19-01-2009

Train operator First Capital Connect has finished extending a depot ready to stable and maintain a new fleet of air-conditioned trains that will boost capacity and introduce new levels of comfort to the Bedford to Brighton Thameslink route.

How refreshing! New livery tells story of Thameslink route upgrade

30-12-2008

First Capital Connect’s latest trains to emerge from a major internal refit are wearing a bright new livery to spread word about capacity upgrade works on the cross-London Thameslink route between Brighton and Bedford.

£5.5BN Thameslink Programme one step closer as first platform extensions completed

23-12-2008

The multi-billion pound Thameslink upgrade programme moved a step closer to completion today as Network Rail finished work to extend the platforms at First Capital Connect-managed station Luton Airport Parkway.

December timetable change

28-11-2008

Significant changes, in particular to services between Farringdon and Barbican and Moorgate, are included in the new winter timetable which comes into force on the Thameslink route on Sunday 14 December 2008.