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<p>As a result of East Midlands Trains being unable to stop at Bedford or Luton at
peak times, the Department expects approximately 1500 passengers from Bedford and
500 passengers from Luton to transfer to Thameslink services to London each day, from
May 2018. However, passengers on this route will benefit from capacity improvements
as a result of the Thameslink Programme which mean that GTR will provide around 2000
additional seats from Bedford and nearly 3000 extra seats from Luton, off-setting
the extra demand.</p><p> </p><p>In order to continue to provide some faster services
between Bedford, Luton and London, GTR will remove some intermediate stops from a
total of 4 trains in the morning and 6 trains in the evening. However, the improvements
to capacity across the peak periods mean that GTR will still be able to provide more
seats at intermediate stations than it does today.</p><p> </p>
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