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The Department for Transport recently requested under the Freedom of Information Act statistics on the 10 most overcrowded train lines/journeys in 2008. And guess what – FCC came out top!

They also had another two services in the top 10!

The three FCC service in the top 10 are as follows:

• Claiming the prestigious number 1 most overcrowded service is the 17.45 First Capital Connect service to King’s Lynn which had 352 passengers in excess of its capacity of 494. Continue reading →

FCC announced yesterday that Thameslink route customers can expect more reliable trains now that they have restarted a traction control reliability programme for its 20-year-old class 319 trains.

As per usual, FCC are quick to find blame elsewhere, and claim that the “late arrival of newly-built Electrostar trains, being introduced as part of the Thameslink Programme, had forced FCC to put the work on hold but enough are now in service on the Brighton to Bedford route for it to resume.”
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Evening.

First Capital Connect have launched a new Twitter service where you can receive custom messages about your specific journey.

Here’s how it works – from the FCC website;

Send our Twitter account, FirstCC, a direct message listing your stations and times. The direct message should look something like this (using commas to separate stations and times, and stating times in 24-hour format):

kings cross, cambridge, 0800, 1800

We’ll receive your stations and times and store them in our database. Then, when major incidents occur on your route within an hour either side of your times, you’ll receive a direct message sent to your Twitter account straight away.

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No surprise really.

I had a good chat with the geezer on the platform at City Thameslink today as I wondered how I could get home considering the 17:34 Luton train was cancelled. I told him how this morning the 08:28 to Wimbledon was also cancelled! He sympathised with me, and said I should fill out a complaint form – and that so many people are asking for them now they have nearly run out!

So if you are p*issed off, get a form while you can or complain online and do your worst! Alternatively you can help promote IhateThameslink. Post a link online, in a forum, on your website, anywhere! Lets get this site on the first google page when people search for Thameslink – that will embarrass the First Capital Connect management!!

Did anyone travel on the Thameslink on Thursday? To promote the Thameslink Upgrade Programme they were giving away flyers with a free tea bag. Are they having a laugh! If they were giving away an actual cup of tea, I could at least keep warm with a hot drink whilst waiting for my delayed train’. But no, just a teabag….great, thanks.

The green screen

I don’t even see what relevance a teabag has with the Thameslink upgrade programme anyway? Who the hell does their marketing? Well here is some marketing – a very familiar sight for everyone I’m sure – ‘the green screen’ – taken at Farringdon  at about 8.30am. Everything delayed, and one cancellation.

Could do with a cup of tea after all of that….