Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Thameslink trains will be formed of 12 carriages following the completion of improvements at London Bridge on services via (a) Wimbledon and (b) Lewisham; and if he will make a statement.

Following completion of the Thameslink Programme in late 2018, services through the Thameslink ‘Core’ will be operated by eight and twelve car fixed formation trains. Services via Wimbledon (operating on the ‘Wimbledon Loop’) will be formed of eight carriages. Thameslink services will not operate via Lewisham.

Lewisham services are operated by South Eastern and we do not mandate the length of these services.