Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
New Franchisee for Harringay and Hornsey Train Line
The Great Northern line which serves both Harringay and Hornsey stations will have a new a new master from this September.
The Great Northern franchise has been awarded to train operator Govia, along with those for Thameslink and Southern.
At seven years, the franchise is one of the longest awarded. In return GoVia promise, amongst other things, to operate services to and from Moorgate later into the evenings and at weekends; a new fleet of 150 air-conditioned metro carriages for Moorgate during 2018, and, at a time when London Underground Stations are closing ticket offices, the new franchisee promises that staffing hours will be increased, with the busiest stations staffed from first to last train. Further investment is promised to improve platform access and provide information screens at stations.
Within the lifetime of the franchise there are plans to run trains across London North to South: New tunnels will link Peterborough and Cambridge to the existing Thameslink route providing through trains stopping at Finsbury Park via St Pancras to Gatwick and Brighton.
It's not my impression that people have been bowled over by the the performance of the current operator. The announced changes sound positive. Let's hope GoVia deliver.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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I get that line every day. It's hell.
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Permalink Reply by wholepint on
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Hopefully they won't carry on the previous operator's habit of sending 3 carriage coaches during rush hour - and hopefully the new fleet mentioned above will be a bit better designed for commuter trains (shame we'll have to wait till 2018 though). The narrowness of the carriages on FCC doesn't exactly help - maybe they can take some design tips from the nice shiny spacious London Overground trains?
To be honest, just managing to be on time and cancel less trains would be a start. I don't use this line unless I really can't think of a more direct option at the moment because they're so unreliable!
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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Arkady, a member of HoL, has written two detailed articles on the future of Great Northern/Thameslink services at the 'London Reconnections' blog, including an assessment of the effect on the service frequency at Harringay (section headed 'The Impact of Segregation on Harringay and Hornsey Stations').
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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ALSO visible in this photo (centre left) from a few years ago is the concrete batching plant under construction in the Cranfield Way (formerly) light-industrial zone. This was presaged by the quiet re-designation to general industrial use.
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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Present from John Prescott?
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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Very interesting article. Thanks for linking it.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Terrific. We invite in a conglomerate that's mostly owned by the French rail company, to take its profits off to subsidise the French state-owned rail. Only in neoliberal madworld.
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Not sure if that's the case on Great Northern, but if it is then it would be very much the exception - on most of the franchises that are operated by foreign-owned holding companies (Abellio/NS; Arriva/Deutsche Bahn; GoVia/SNCF) the implicit cross-subsidy goes the other way, with the money effectively flowing from dutch / german / french taxpayers to the DfT (or farepayers bank accounts). Or so I understand
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Did you know that the RATP (Paris metro operator) also operates some of London's buses?
Eurostar is 60% SNCF owned?
SNCF workers have been striking for the last 8 days to stop the Fr govt from privatising their own network?
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Yup. Interestingly enough, the rail passengers in France (mostly) don't seem to share the fears of the SNCF workers who have gone on strike. It'll be quite interesting to see what happens over the next couple of years, as the major incumbent European operators (SNCF, DB, Trenitalia etc) face more competition for domestic passenger markets.
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