Future
The Department for Transport has announced that at the conclusion of the Southern franchise in July 2015, the South Central franchise will be merged into the Thameslink Southern Great Northern franchise.
On 29 March 2012 the Department for Transport announced that Abellio, First, Govia, MTR and Stagecoach have been shortlisted to bid for the new franchise. The Invitation to Tender was to have been issued in October 2012, with the successful bidder announced in Spring 2013. However in the wake of the InterCity West Coast refranchising process collapsing, the Secretary of State for Transport announced in October 2012 that the process would be put on hold pending the results of a review.
It has been suggested that some peak-hour Gatwick Express services may call at Clapham Junction.
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