If we were lucky TFL would take over the Victoria-Crystal Palace-London at the next franchise renewal for South Central. This would leave us with two operators, TFL and Thameslink.

TFL are already planning to increase numbers of trains on the ELL with the phase 2 extension to Clapham Junction, so the addition cost of the increase in services on our branch would be relatively small by comparison (less than the cost of building Surrey Canal Road station for example).

Part of the reason for switching us to Thameslink is that the lower level station will be smaller, so it will need to cut the number of services using this part of the station. The removal of the SLL will not reduce the services by enough to relive congestion at the lower station. If we don't get Thameslink services we are most likely to start losing services again.