Thameslink | 101 Facts About Their HUGE Developments!

⏱️ Thameslink time!

🚄 The Thameslink route forms one of the most important parts of the UK’s railway infrastructure. Sharing and running over parts of existing mainlines and some of the first railway lines ever constructed in the capital, it’s been part of one of the biggest new-build railway engineering projects since the Victorian age.

🟣 Here we look at the history, the routes, motive power and more, as we take a look at 101 facts about Thameslink.

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