Information sheet 7 – Kent Thameslink

Burnham Market Wells-next-the-Sea SERVICES AND FACILITIES This is a general guide to the basic daily services. Hunstanton Not all trains stop at all stations on each coloured line, so please check the timetable. Dersingham Fakenham REGULAR LIMITED SERVICE SERVICE Sandringham Gatwick Express King’s Lynn Great Northern

Southern Watlington Thameslink Wisbech Downham Market Other train operators may provide additional services along some of our routes.

Other train operators’ routes Littleport Bus links to Yorkshire, the North East and Scotland Ely Faygate* Limited service stations on our network to Norwich Interchange stations and Ipswich Interchange with London Underground Peterborough Waterbeach Interchange with London Overground to the West Midlands, St. Ives to Newmarket Interchange with London Tramlink North West and Scotland to the East Midlands Huntingdon Cambridge and Ipswich and South Yorkshire Interchange with Eurostar to Stansted Airport Interchange with other operators’ train services St. Neots Foxton and London Bedford Interchange with Airports Milton Keynes Central Shepreth Ferry service routes Sandy Meldreth Flitwick Bletchley Biggleswade Royston Harlington Ashwell & Morden Arlesey Baldock Leighton Buzzard Leagrave Letchworth Garden City Hitchin Dunstable Luton Stevenage Tring Watton-at-Stone Luton Airport Parkway Luton Knebworth Airport Hertford North Welwyn North Harpenden Bayford Berkhamsted Welwyn Garden City Hatfield Cuffley St. Albans City Welham Green Crews Hill Hemel Hempstead Radlett Brookmans Park Gordon Hill

Potters Bar Enfield Chase Watford Junction Elstree & Borehamwood Hadley Wood Grange Park New Barnet Mill Hill Broadway Winchmore Hill Oakleigh Park Palmers Green Harrow & Wealdstone Hendon New Southgate Bowes Park Cricklewood Alexandra Palace Hornsey Wembley Central West Hampstead Thameslink Harringay Finsbury Park Kentish Town Drayton Park Highbury & Islington Shepherd’s Bush London London Essex Road St. Pancras International King’s Cross Old Street Farringdon Moorgate

City Thameslink London Blackfriars Kensington (Olympia) RIVER THAMES

London Bridge South West Brompton London Victoria Bermondsey Elephant & Castle New Bermondsey to Highbury & Islington Oyster and contactless Queens Road Peckham payment can be used New Cross Gate Imperial Wharf in the yellow shaded area Battersea Park Peckham Denmark Hill Rye Crofton Park to London Nunhead RIVER THAMES Loughborough Junction Waterloo Brockley Catford East Dulwich Herne Hill North Dulwich Honor Oak Park Bellingham West Dulwich Clapham Forest Hill Junction Tulse Hill Sydenham Wandsworth Hill Beckenham Hill Common Sydenham Streatham West Balham Hill Norwood Penge East Ravensbourne Streatham Gipsy Hill Crystal Palace Kent House Penge West Shortlands Haydons Road Anerley Wimbledon Tooting Streatham Common Beckenham Bromley South Norbury to Guildford Birkbeck Junction Thornton Heath Bickley Wimbledon Chase Mitcham Eastfields Selhurst St. Mary Cray Norwood Junction South Merton Mitcham Junction Petts Wood Swanley to North Kent Hackbridge Morden South Orpington Eynsford East Croydon Carshalton Wallington Waddon West Croydon South Croydon St. Helier to Sevenoaks Shoreham Carshalton Beeches Sanderstead Riddlesdown Sutton Common Otford West Sutton Sutton Purley Oaks Upper Warlingham Belmont Bat & Ball to Ashford to Canterbury Coulsdon Purley Woldingham to London International and Ramsgate Cheam Woodmansterne Town Reedham Kenley Whyteleafe Banstead Oxted Sevenoaks to Whyteleafe Ewell East Coulsdon South Dover to London Chipstead South Ashford and Epsom Downs Hurst Green to London Epsom Kingswood Merstham Caterham International Europe Ashtead Redhill to London Tadworth Edenbridge Leigh Ham Street to Bournemouth Leatherhead Tattenham Reigate to Kent Coast London Road Corner Earlswood Nutfield Godstone Edenbridge Penshurst Tonbridge Appledore Southampton Central to Reading Guildford (Guildford) Horsley Bookham Town St. Denys* Salfords Rye Effingham Lingfield Hever Clandon Box Hill & Westhumble to Dorking Horley Southampton Airport Parkway to Dorking Junction Winchelsea Dorking Gatwick Airport Dormans Cowden to Portsmouth Deepdene *Bitterne Eastleigh Dorking Doleham* to Guildford to Reigate Three Bridges East Grinstead Ashurst *Woolston Holmwood Three Oaks Eridge *Sholing Ockley Crawley *Netley Balcombe Ore Fareham Crowborough *Hamble Warnham Portchester Littlehaven Faygate* Ifield Haywards Heath to London Hastings *Bursledon Cosham Buxted Swanwick Horsham St. Leonards Warrior Square Hilsea Wivelsfield to Channel Islands, to London Christ’s Hospital Uckfield Bexhill France and Spain Fratton Southwater Plumpton Billingshurst Burgess Hill Collington Portsmouth & Southsea BedhamptonHavant Ashington Pulborough Hassocks Cooksbridge* Cooden Beach Warblington Amberley Emsworth Preston Park Normans Bay Arundel Washington Portsmouth Southbourne Pevensey Bay* NutbourneBosham Moulsecoomb Glynde Berwick Polegate Harbour Pevensey & Westham Fishbourne London Falmer Lewes Chichester Ford Hove Barnham Lancing Road Hampden Park to Gosport and Angmering Worthing SouthwickFishersgatePortsladeAldrington Brighton (Brighton) Isle of Wight Goring-by-Sea West Worthing East Worthing Southease Durrington-on-Sea Shoreham-by-Sea Eastbourne Bognor Regis Littlehampton Newhaven Town to France Newhaven Harbour Bishopstone Seaford

The consultation will affect services shownProduced by 28.6.2016on (GTR thisAll Brands Diagram) map www.fwt.co.uk Information sheet 7 – Kent Thameslink

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has launched an the biggest timetable change on the routes affected in a extensive Consultation which sets out proposed changes generation. We are therefore seeking feedback from any to the timetable which will be operated by GTR in 2018 interested parties who may be affected by the proposed following completion of the Thameslink Programme. changes to help shape the new patterns of service. When the Programme completes in 2018, it will transform This consultation will be the earliest a train operator has north-south travel through London; journeys will be released proposals in advance of the planned changes improved with trains every two to three minutes through allowing sufficient time for meaningful and on-going central London at peak times. Improved connections will engagement. give you better travel options to more destinations than ever For further information and how to respond please visit before, modern track will make your journeys more reliable our website: thameslinkrailway.com and new trains will provide additional capacity. This will be

Kent Thameslink services Proposed service changes Proposed new all-day Monday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday Thameslink service on the North Kent line via Greenwich, and Towns Proposed new all-day Monday to Friday and Saturday Thameslink service between Maidstone East and Cambridge Proposals to double the frequency of Thameslink services on the Catford Loop

The following new Thameslink services are proposed to be introduced in 2018: • Luton – St Albans City – West Hampstead Thameslink – Central London (via Elephant & Castle) – Catford – Bromley South – Orpington • Cambridge – Stevenage – Central London (via London Bridge) – Swanley – Maidstone East • Luton – St Albans City – West Hampstead Thameslink – central London (via London Bridge) – Greenwich – Abbey Wood – Dartford – Medway towns

A summary of the proposed changes are: be extended to and from Luton. This is in addition to • Improved off peak services for Luton, Luton Airport the current train services between London Blackfriars – Parkway, Harpenden, St Albans City, Radlett, Elstree & Elephant & Castle – Catford – Bromley South – Swanley Borehamwood, Mill Hill Broadway and West Hampstead – Sevenoaks. During peak periods these trains will be Thameslink with services increased from four to six extended to and from Welwyn Garden City. The two routes trains per hour during Monday to Fridays, Saturdays and combine between London Blackfriars and Bickley to Sundays. These additional train services will run semi provide 4tph on the Catford Loop route at all times of the fast between Luton and Central London and continue to day, doubling the frequency of Thameslink train services. Greenwich, Dartford and Rainham. • To provide increased frequency the stopping Cambridge • New cross-London journey opportunities providing multiple services will be linked to Maidstone East. This will provide connectivity opportunities will be created between Luton double the stopping train frequency between Cambridge – St Albans City – West Hampstead Thameslink – Central and Central London. To improve journey times between London (via London Bridge) – Greenwich – Abbey Wood Maidstone East and Central London, and to re-instate – Dartford – Rochester – Rainham. This new route will journey opportunities previously removed in 2009, these provide multiple new connections with the new east to trains will run via London Bridge (instead of Elephant & west Elizabeth Line (formally ) at Abbey Wood. Castle). Previously the Maidstone East services were The route can also be operated by 8 or 12 car trains. intended to be a predominately peak only. It is now proposed for this service to operate all day Mondays • New all day train services are proposed to be introduced to Fridays and Saturdays. Some services will also be between Kentish Town – Central London (via Elephant extended to or from Ashford International. & Castle) – Catford – Bromley South – Orpington. During Monday to Friday peak periods these trains will