Weekday morning train service from Hither Green from September 2016

About 18 months go I posted about the changes to trains from Hither Green as a result of the Thameslink Programme.

These changes are about to come to an end and a new timetable will be in place from the beginning of September. The main change is that trains to Cannon Street will no longer stop at London Bridge and trains to Charing Cross/Waterloo East will begin to stop at London Bridge again.

There have been some minor tweaks to the timetable, but no massive contingency to deal with this change, at least not from Hither Green anyway. Below is a list of the trains to Charing Cross, Cannon Street and Blackfriars in the morning peak:

Hither Green to Charing Cross (all call at London Bridge)

06:56   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 2      07:18

06:58   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 5      07:26 

07:16   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 1      07:40  

07:19   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 6      07:47

07:36   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 3      08:00

07:40   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 2      08:04

08:02   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 3      08:27

08:15   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 1      08:39

08:24   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 2      08:47

08:35   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 3      08:59

08:38   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 1      09:07

08:42   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 5      09:09

08:55   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 5      09:21

09:00   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 3      09:28

09:10   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 2      09:33

09:17   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 1      09:44

09:36   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Charing Cross [CHX] Platform 5      10:01

Hither Green to Cannon Street (do not call at London Bridge)

07:06   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 1       07:24 

07:11   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 2       07:33
07:32   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 4       07:55
07:49   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 3       08:09

07:53   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 5       08:19

08:12   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 1       08:36

08:29   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 7       08:48

08:32   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 4       08:55

08:50   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 3       09:15

09:04   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 5       09:27

09:19   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 6       09:42

09:26   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 5         London Cannon Street [CST] Platform 7       09:50

Hither Green to Blackfriars

07:59   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Blackfriars [BFR] Platform 3            08:27

08:18   Hither Green [HGR] Platform 3         London Blackfriars [BFR] Platform 3            08:48

There are some minor tweaks to departure times compared with the current timetable. The 08:35 to Charing Cross appears to be a new service, as is the 09:00. Cannon Street loses the 07:28 and gains the 08:29. There are still some alarming gaps - the biggest being 22 minutes between services to London Bridge and Charing Cross between 07:40 and 08:02 - this is especially worrying as these trains will now have London Bridge passengers who previously would have been getting the Cannon Street trains. There are two trains to Cannon Street and one to Blackfriars in that gap, so hopefully they will pick up some of the capacity...

Incidentally I got this information from the national rail website. The Thameslink Programme website itself has limited detail and the timetables on the southeastern site don't precisely match these times - a few are a minute out on the departure time, but I'm trusting the NR site.

In the week beginning Monday 29 August there will be no Cannon Street services until 2 September, so I hope you aren't planning to be working in town that week...