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The new company is First Capital Connect, <a href='http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk' target='_blank'>http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk</a>

It's a shame in a way as no doubt a lot of money will be spent initially on the rebranding process. WAGN have only just finished refurbing a lot of trains in their colours and repainting stations too. They've not even started on the corporate stamp for Potters Bar, seems like a waste of time now. I guess all the uniforms and stuff will change also.

Noticed tonight that the monitors on the platforms have today taken on a WAGN branding also, talk about leaving it a bit late

I guess this is also a shame since they seem to have improved reliability and punctuality as the discount is now down to 1% and then only for annual tickets.

But I can't help thinking some of this is down to adding slack time to the terminus arrival time, giving them a few minutes before they go into penalty. It seems the north and south tracks take different routes near the ends of the line, as it takes between 7-9 minutes to go into Kings Cross but only 5 coming out. Same is true at WGC where it takes 5 minutes to get in but only 3 to get out

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As the WAGN staff will <a href='http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/our_people.php' target='_blank'>TUPE</a> across to First Group not much will change apart from shareholders...

Sometimes I think we lose out to Peterborough and Cambridge services. Be good to have fast services from Finsbury Park as we had when I first started commuting, although the timetable change that brought this in gave more trains per hour, so you can't have it all, I'm sure it's not possible to please everyone