Reasons for the 1 year delay in the restoration of the full Charing Cross / London Bridge service
Dear Department for Transport,
When the Charing Cross services ceased calling at London Bridge in January 2015, the published information at the time said that services would resume in August 2016 with no mention made of an ongoing impact until August 2017. See, for example, http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk/cha...
I understand that, although this was the original plan, Network Rail became aware in January 2016, whilst working on the post-August 2016 timetable, that it wouldn't be possible to resume the peak hour calling patterns and decided to delay their reinstatement by a year August 2017. (Resulting in more than 2.5 years of disruption to passengers who use the affected route!)
I also understand that this decision was subject to discussions and modelling between Network Rail, Southeastern & yourselves.
Please could you provide details of these discussions and the modelling work undertaken.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Cook
Dear Mr Cook,
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your request for information which
has been allocated reference number P0014011.
A response will be issued to you in due course.
Regards,
Ivan Pocock
Department for Transport
FOI Advice Team
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Dear Mr Cook,
Please find attached reply to your Freedom of Information request.
[1][IMG] Mr Jeaur Rahman
Correspondence Manager, Passenger Services
4/21 GMH, Great Minster House
33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR
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Dear Mr Cook,
Please find attached reply to your Freedom of Information request.
[1][IMG] Mr Jeaur Rahman
Correspondence Manager, Passenger Services
4/21 GMH, Great Minster House
33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR
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Chris Hogan left an annotation ()
This is hardly the comprehensive response you requested from the DfT, just an e-mail string within the DfT. It refers to a paper from Network Rail that hasn't been included and a meeting with South Eastern and Network Rail that was presumably minuted. I suggest you ask for an Internal Review of the response. You also might make requests to the Office of Rail & Road and Network Rail for their positions on this shambles.