Same old same old

I'd forgotten all about this blog, first written during a period when it seemed that Thameslink passengers were on the wrong end of one of the biggest construction projects in Europe. The project to create St Pancras International would, we knew, deliver major benefits to passengers on Eurostar and Midland Mainline trains, which would be using the new station. But after the construction was finished, the expectation was that Thameslink trains would revert to the cramped Kings Cross Thameslink station (because only the construction of a concrete box under the new international station had been approved, not its fitting out as a station).

Since then, of course, we have the glittering new St Pancras low level station for trains on the Thameslink line, and a new franchise holder in the form of First Capital Connect. Things we were told, could only get better.

Well, they got a whole lot worst, and the erstwhile nickname for the line - The Bedpan - now seems apt once again. And we know where the contents of the bedpan end up.

So I'm now campaigning for an end to the First Capital Connect franchise. The sooner the better.

Time to empty the bedpan...