Route
Most of the route is over the Brighton Main Line and the southern part of the Midland Main Line. There is also a suburban loop through Sutton and Wimbledon.
The route through central London is via St Pancras International for connections to Eurostar and the East Midlands; Farringdon, for London Underground's Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines, and Crossrail from 2018; City Thameslink, which replaced the demolished Holborn Viaduct station and also has a southern entrance serving Ludgate Circus; Blackfriars, for other rail services and the Underground District and Circle lines; and London Bridge for mainline links into Kent and Sussex and connections to the Northern and Jubilee Underground lines. King's Cross Thameslink on Pentonville Road closed on 8 December 2007.
Trains operating the "main line" service (Bedford to Brighton) usually include first-class accommodation. Those serving the "suburban loop" are standard class only. The previous franchisee designated these services "Thameslink CityFlier" and "Thameslink CityMetro" respectively, but the present operator has dropped this branding.
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
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—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)