ThamesLink Reviews

It's really strange... sometimes the owners of a company just don't know that they are onto a good thing. Thameslink was just that something, basically the route is a commuter train route between Brighton and Bedford that runs through Central London with stations at Blackfriars Farringdon and St Pancras International, it is an exceedingly busy and ...  Read the complete review

Avoid First Capital Connect ! Unreliable and often cancelled . Improvements promised but don't hold your breath.

It's important to note that "Thameslink" rail franchise no longer exists; it was subsumed into a larger franchise in 2006 that will run until at least 2015. That franchise is part of the First Group and is called First Capital Connect. The Thameslink name continues to live on, primarily because it existed in the ...  Read the complete review

The Thameslink routes are the closest London has to a modern, cross-rail and high-speed metropolitan railway. But it still suffers from many of the ills found in the rest of the old British Rail system. Unlike every other mainline service in London, the Thameslink does not terminate at the edge of the centre and force you to use the ...  Read the complete review