Why did you have to close the branch line to Barbican and Moorgate Thameslink?
The Moorgate Thameslink route branch line had to close on 22 March 2009 so that a new timetable could be brought in that allowed Network Rail to close the three terminating ‘bay’ platforms at Blackfriars in order to start rebuilding the station to take longer 12-carriage trains. This timetable provides a new cross-London service by joining up the north Thameslink route services which previously went into Moorgate with those Southeastern services from Kent which had been terminating in those Blackfriars ‘bay’ platforms and effectively needed somewhere to go – they could not just be withdrawn from service. The branch line to Moorgate also had to close for Network Rail to extend the Farringdon station platforms later in 2009. The longer platforms will let First Capital Connect use longer 12-carriage trains instead of eight on the mainline from December 2011, which will reduce overcrowding. Unfortunately the platforms can’t be lengthened very far northwards because the track drops down a g
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