Peak services to LB will be reduced from 15 to 12. Back in 2006 we had 18 trains to London Bridge in the three hour peak. But the 15 trains and the 4 during the high peak (8-9am) are based on current services which were brought it as a temporary change after the chaos at London Bridge. this was never meant to be a permanent change - for example to 20 minute gap in the morning timetable between 8:21 and 8:42 (or thereabouts - I can't remember the exact times).

So there are plans to reduce peak services to London Bridge at exactly the time that the Thameslink services will increase demand for connections via LB.

The addition of 2x5 car trains per hour on the Overground does not provide real compensation for the loss of 3-6 x 10 car trains to LB. This is on a line that is still expected to be seriously overcrowded in the next decade and the extra Overground have been introduced to address this, not to allow for cuts on other services.

This really does take us back to the 'Save our Services' campaign from 2006, when we realised that we would lose all Charing Cross services, and faced a reduction in peak services to and from LB.

But there is a clear reason for the diversion of EC services to WC - and that is the complete separation of South London from outside London. TfL want to take over metro services and this will make the reorganisation easier as the services will be easier to segregate. Unfortunately that means poor connection between South London and South of London. That wouldn't really be a massive issue if it were not for a major airport being part of this area.