Heres 3rd phase Kings Lynn Wallington Downham Market Littleport Ely Waterbeach Cambridge North Cambridge Cambridge South (subject t clearance) Foxton Shepreth Meldreth Royston Ashwell Morden Baldock Letchworyh Garden City Hitchin Stevenage Great Northern 700 / 717 kings Lynn to Kings Cross Thameslink 700 Cambridge to Stevenage Cross Country 170 Ely to Cambridge South* Cambridge LNER Ai at Stevenage
I can't support these suggestions that propose weird segments of routes. This is a rather random and probably least appealing part of a frequently requested ECML network. What was your thinking behind this section of the East Anglian railway? DTG could do London Kings Cross to Cambridge and/or Peterborough or Cambridge to Kings Lynn, though the latter would still be a less popular or logical choice as comparatively few trains go all the way up to Kings Lynn meaning a very sparse Timetable. 1 train per hour off-peak. Some other issues; While it's all the same operator, GTR, under the "Great Northern" branding don't operate Class 700s or Class 707s. The Great Northern does have Class 717s but they don't go north of Stevenage. Thameslink services using Class 700s only go as far north as Cambridge. So if done realistically and staying faithful to your suggested traction there would be no trains in the Timetable between Ely and Kings Lynn. Kings Cross to Kings Lynn services are operated by Class 387s and, more recently, Class 379s.
He just won't stop listing stations with no information. He's bombarding the suggestions forum with them.
I don't know why OP (and other's too, to be fair) have to keep spamming lists of stations with almost no info attached. It's annoying to read, and it probably makes the people who actually have the power to turn suggestions into reality not bother to actually read suggestions, which really is kind of unfair on the people who actually take the time to make good quality, detailed suggestions.
No, "they" don't. I spoke to my rail contact in the area and the correct and more nuanced situation is that a small number of GN paths are worked by Thameslink's 700s at the moment because they just happen to be stabled in convenient positions thus reducing the number of overall units needed to run GN services. Govia are trying to balance serviceable units between Southern and Great Northern at the moment, the withdrawal of the 313s and 455s and the 377 refurbishment has left them a bit short over the last few years. They are currently refreshing and deploying the ex-Greater Anglia Class 379s but even though they are fairly new trains and were "kept warm" while in storage they needed more work than was anticipated to get them back into service on the Great Northern. There's an interesting article about it in the most recent Modern Railways magazine I've read. It is incorrect to say that the Great Northern fleet comprises of Class 700s. However, you could make the wider point that both GN and Thameslink are run by Govia (along with Southern). But none of the 700s are branded for Great Northern as a quick look on Flickr would have shown and none of them are permanently allocated to GN. By some remarkable co-incidence I had 700011 from Kentish Town to Farringdon earlier this week....a Thameslink service. Your original route suggestion totally ignored any of the trains that make up the permanent Great Northern fleet; 379s, 387s or 717s.
