I started
this thread on the weekend problems two years and three months ago, and the issues had been going on for some months previously (I was surprised at the time no-one else had mentioned them).
Amazing to think that at that point I'd be getting GN(/FCC) trains to/from London almost every Saturday and almost every Sunday for the preceding 8/9 years. Now I've only caught one south of Cambridge in the last three months, and that was only because GA was totally blocked due to a suicide. They've completely lost my custom in favour of GA between Cambridge and London, even though it is a little slower, and I don't see they're exactly trying hard to persuade me back.
Cambridge, Stevenage and Peterborough are fortunate in having rail alternatives - albeit slower, more expensive or less frequent. Somewhere like Arlesey station might as well now be closed for all the use it is to people!
Even worse are those making local journeys. Direct journeys like Welwyn to Biggleswade have already been made impossible by the timetable, then on top of that any local journey now involves entering into an involuntary lottery of how long the journey will take. Something like Hitchin to Arlesey should be 5 minutes, yet people have been subject to gaps of 2 hours -- even with the "interim" timetable.
To amplify all this, here's some data from RTTT for this morning's northbound service from Arlesey.
0603 to Peterborough - departed at 0604
0625 to Peterborough - departed at 0654 and terminated at Huntingdon
0655 to Peterborough - departed at 0706 and terminated at Hungtingdon
0755 to Peterborough - cancelled
0825 to Peterborough - cancelled
0855 to Peterborough - cancelled
0925 to Peterborough - departed at 0934
0955 to Peterborough - departed RT!
1025 to Peterborough - departed at 1027
1125 to Peterborough - cancelled
1155 to Peterborough - cancelled
1225 to Peterbnorough - departed at 1231
1255 to Peterborough - departed RT
1355 to Peterborough - departed at 1357
1425 to Peterborough - departed at 1427
1455 to Peterborough - departed at 1510
1525 to Peterborough - departed at 1540
1555 to Peterborough - departed RT
1625 to Peterborough - departed at 1626
1725 to Peterborough - departed RT.
Even the most ardent Thameslink apologists can't fail to agree that this is pretty grim reading. Other days this week have been similarly bad if not worse.
FailedPlan2020.