Completion of London's Thameslink rail project delayed until December 2019 [Guardian]
Date: 24/11/2017
The £7.5bn Thameslink project designed to run trains automatically through central London every two and a half minutes will now not be completed until the end of the decade. Passengers have suffered years of disruption due to engineering works to rebuild London Bridge and surrounding tracks, with the promise of a high-capacity service from 2018. Substantial benefits will be seen from May 2018, boosting capacity significantly - enough for around 35,000 more passengers at peak hours but the promised 24 trains an hour will now not be introduced until at least December 2019.
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Promise of 24 Thameslink trains running through central London each hour will not be fulfilled until another £900m of work is carried out
