Originally Posted by Dave_C
Southern operate two services an hour from Brighton, through Clapham (Platform 16 and 17), all the way up to Watford Junction; in addition to the two Silverlink services an hour (Platform 2) that operate from Willesden to Clapham. Also, Virgin operate three our four XC services a day through Kensington Olympia, Clapham and down to Brighton.
It may well need co-ordination with the Southern timetable to re-jigg things slightly.
Don't even think about touching those Virgin services, crap the trains may be (Voyagers) but bloody usefull if you need to get to the Midlands without going to a mainline station on London.
BTW there is only one Southern service each way to & from Brighton on this line (you may have meant this, I'm unsure). The line through Kenny O is also used for freight and Eurostars on their way to North Pole (Eurostar servicing depot) which I'm told will stop when they stop using Waterloo. So when the Eurostars move to St Pancras there will be some spare train paths (as I'm told they're called) on that part of the line.
And I thought that knowing a trainspotter wouldn't be of any use
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